Michael Moore Bails Out Julian Assange, Despite Total Ignorance of His Actual Views

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To the sound of the nation's collective yawn, filmmaker Michael Moore announced Tuesday that he had given $20,000 to bail out Wikileaks proprietor Julian Assange from a British jail. Moore cited his admiration for Assange's quest for openness and transparency in government. But Assange has openly declared that his objective is precisely the opposite – he wants to make the American government so opaque that it cannot function. Moore went on to laud the lives Assange has supposedly saved by preventing global conflict (well, not really global, since Moore only seems concerned with American misdeeds). But Wikileaks has actually made it more likely, not less, that nations will rely on military might instead of diplomacy. read more

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Michael Moore Bails Out Julian Assange, Despite Total Ignorance of His Actual Views

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