Wikileaks

There has been a great deal of outgassing concerning the rights, wrongs and wherefores of the wikileaks "leaks" of multitudes of US diplomatic emails displaying our State Department in a less than flattering light. (see Joshua Hollands article) Indeed, they appear to be a bunch of crude, unprofessional bumblers.  Of course, when one looks at the reality of our effectiveness as a world leader, pick your subject, this comes as no surprise.  Now we are seeing the kneejerks in congress salivating over the need to control (read shut down at will) the internet and people's ability to express their free speech rights.  If this does happen, we, the people, lose again.  Whether you agree with Wikileaks is not the point.  There are many, many websites on the internet that I do not agree with or would never visit but that doesn't mean that I feel they should be shut down by the "Coyote Girl" judge of what is "appropriate" material for the internet.  The issue of Wikileaks is not that some embarrassing material was disclosed that exposes our unprofessional State Department in their nakedness.  It is about free speech, pure and simple.  If we lose the right to a freely accessible and freely usable internet, we lose our freedom as people, period!  Maybe the fact that the State Department now knows that their unprofessional behavior could be exposed will force them to a higher level of honesty and trustworthiness which would not be a bad thing.