Re: Don't shoot messenger for revealing uncomfortable truths

Oh...here's a good one:

http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=174412&findnew#new
Government Objects To Outing Taxpayer-Funded Sex Trade?
In little boys perhaps?  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/213720

On the Kunduz Regional Training Center (RTC) DynCorp event of April 11  
(reftel), Atmar reiterated his insistence that the U.S. try to quash  
any news article on the incident or circulation of a video connected  
with it. He continued to predict that publicity would "endanger  
lives." He disclosed that he has arrested two Afghan police and nine  
other Afghans as part of an MoI investigation into Afghans who  
facilitated this crime of "purchasing a service from a child."

I see.

So we have diplomatic activity related to what appears, if this cable  
is correct, to be child prostitution linked to a US company providing  
services in Afghanistan.

This is the sort of thing our government is trying to keep from being  
disclosed by Wikileaks?

This is what our government deemed "classified"?

Covering up child prostitution - if that's what happened - is a  
legitimate "state secret"?

We absolutely should have diplomatic secrecy surrounding the activity  
of US corporations engaged in international commerce and training  
activities when the accusation is made that they're involved, however  
peripherally, in the sexual exploitation of children?

By the way, Frontline ran a nasty little video piece on this general  
practice.  Get your barf bag before watching.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/dancingboys/?utm_campaign=videoplayer&utm_medium=embplayer&utm_source=toplink

Is that what this cable is talking about?

Is that what Joe Lieberman wants to protect?

Shouldn't the people know if this is where their taxpayer funding is  
going?

Shouldn't we ask Lieberman whether he supports the sexual exploitation  
of children, since he obviously wants to not only stop disclosure but  
the allegation and investigation of events just like this?

Sounds like a fair question to me.



On Dec 8, 2010, at 4:15 PM, Lance McLain wrote:

> You know, when we have government doing crap like this with  
> impunity...I think a good dose of wikileaks is in order.
> The government is supposed to be of the people, by the people, for  
> the people....but they sure don't want the people knowing what they  
> are doing. Is there nothing that the government can't claim needs to  
> be secret?
>
> regards,
> -Lance
>
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