Hang One, Hang 'Em All

I hope they catch that WikiLeaks guy. I hope they catch him and prosecute him for all its worth. I hope they, legally speaking, throttle this guy within an inch of his life. If what he has done has truly compromised the safety of American intelligence and diplomatic operatives around the world, he should be punished for it. Even if you can not prove that anyone directly suffered as the result of those leaks, it's the principle, right?

Kind of like an attempted murder charge, right?

Only one condition. You hold formal hearings on the Valerie Plame scandal. And you put that Low-Down-Gutless-Excuse-For-A-Vice-President Dick Cheney and that crypto-fascist maniac Richard Armitage on trial. Same as Julian Assange.

Cheney and Armitage. Assange goes on trial, they go on trial.

 

Comments

[tednarcotic]

04:45 PM on 01/04/2011

Oooh, I was gonna slam you Alec but you fooled me and now I am both entertained and in total agreement with you. Us liberals don't stick together the way the republicans do. If you are wrong and on the right everyone just ignores your mistake and stands by you. Liberals have a higher standard for fealty.

[katch]

03:32 PM on 12/15/2010

Yes, absolutely right Mr Baldwin! I second that motion!

[Neontom69]

01:46 AM on 12/11/2010

Mr. Baldwin, I just looked for your opines on tonight's performance of Sen. Sanders. Be vocal about this, please.

[Carigrafix]

09:44 PM on 12/09/2010

Wikileaks are just the beginning - or maybe its just another step. Either way, the situation is scary.

[Kyle Asap Hoyt]

06:53 PM on 12/09/2010

Mr. Baldwin,

I know you may have at one time been relevant, but now is not the case. If you realized that Wikileaks simply published a soldiers act of treason, which is something that the New York times among others have done, actually before Wikileaks published them many papers did. The fact is "Her Majesty" is upset that the press would publish this, since they though they had control over such matters. They have coerced news networks into certain termanology and certain topics in order to make their point seem more valid to the public.

In strategic terms this is refered to as "Blowback" or a subsequent problems arrising from the more serious problem of Treason in the Case of the American soldier. IT IS NOT UNLAWFUL FOR THE SITE TO PUBLISH THE DOCUMENTS PROVIDED. THIS IS WHAT THE MEDIA IS SUPPOSED TO DO, THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO INFORM THE PUBLIC OF THEIR SURROUNDINGS.

[katch]

03:33 PM on 12/15/2010

What about Cheney and his co-Whorts. Read the opinion again!

[indechiffrable]

01:55 PM on 12/09/2010

Whew, you got me for a minute, there, Alec.

[Michelle Souza]

05:24 AM on 12/09/2010

Julian Assange is Australian.

[Elizabeth Adams Miller]

01:53 AM on 12/09/2010

There is perhaps a chance that the wikileaks perpetrator can be used for other things.....granted immunity for working for us.....now, what about that? Here again, classified information is the issue, but many would not risk their lives when their own is in question. Some would. Principles and options need to be considered, diplomatic immunity on certain conditions that would be equally favorable to US interests as the wikileaks were damaging to them. There is ALWAYS an alternative. The question is not whether national security has been compromised, clearly it has, butr whether this pawn can be used in a counterattack chess game. I don't doubt some diplomats have considered this. Ummm, just a thought.

Elizabeth Adams Miller

[maidstone]

01:29 PM on 12/08/2010

Alec Baldwin, I treasure your comment "they" can't handle a liberal who can punch back.
Bless you! (In a secular way)...

[DMohr]

07:11 AM on 12/08/2010

Alec, I love you, but I'm wondering what your take on this editorial is. Cheers.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/julian-assange-has-made-u_b_793504.html

[MikeWebster]

10:32 PM on 12/07/2010

I'm glad you made this conditional on:

"If what he has done has truly compromised the safety of American intelligence and diplomatic operatives around the world, he should be punished for it."

There is no evidence that this is the case. If it is, then there are probably many thousands who have done more to endanger Americans.

[Tara Dass]

03:59 AM on 12/10/2010

like lie them into wars for profit? false flag operations and the like?

[RKTesq]

08:36 PM on 12/07/2010

Dear Mr. Baldwin,

I wish I could have said it as well.

[cloaca]

05:28 PM on 12/07/2010

Don't stop there, enforce the laws on war crimes, subversion of recognized nation states, torture, corporate graft of cost-plus contractors...everything that has cost lives or endangered US.

[tinagirl]

05:05 PM on 12/07/2010

Fanned

[Srtelsolutions]

03:37 PM on 12/07/2010

I can't believe how many people are still getting it wrong. Valerie Plame (the unimportant CIA agent) was outed by the anti-regime change faction of the Bush administration (Armitage/Colin Powell/state dept.) in an attempt to discredit them. And don't forget the entire American Liberal consensus was enraged and demanded the leakers prosecuted(not realizing that they were anti-war leakers). Now the same people are calling Assange a hero proving that they are motivated by their own political self interests(anything to make Bush and co. look bad) and don't really care at all about "transparency" and most of all a little something called diplomacy.

[Tara Dass]

04:03 AM on 12/10/2010

Ok look... try to keep up. Valerie Plame the CIA agent is married to Joe Wilson, Joe Wilson went to go investigate the enriched Uranium rumors upon which the lies of WMDs were based, found them to be false, came back to report as such and in retaliation, his wife was outed by Cheney and Rove... they were trying to teach Wilson and others a lesson about second guessing their lies and rumors to war.

[Srtelsolutions]

01:20 PM on 12/15/2010

No you look... I doubt you'll ever catch up. HuffPo contributor Joe Wilson tried to debunk the Uranium rumors but didn't do the trick for some of us non HuffPo super users. According to more credible intelligence agencies than the CIA (since when did liberals become so reliant on them?) Zahawie was indeed shopping for uranium. Saddam's top nuclear mind (who at the time was an ambassador to the Vatican!) is in Niger unaware that they export the only thing they are famous for exporting: yellowcake uranium. Zahawies claim and Wilson's reporting did not convince Swedish Socialist UN weapons inspector Rolf Ekeus (NOT a Neo-Con). Armitage originally leaked Plame and he was anti-war and anti-white house. And Plame wasn't exactly great at keeping her identity hidden, she told Wilson during a heavy make-out session on their 3rd or 4th date what she did and she appeared along side with him when he originally broke his story to the NYT.