slippery_slope unhinged 'the new york times, the guardian, el pais, le monde, and der spiegel printed redacted copies of some of the wikileaks files, but they have underreported the prosecution of manning and entrapment of assange. do these news organizations believe that if the state shuts down organizations such as wikileaks and imprisons manning and assange, traditional news outlets will be left alone? can't they connect the dots between the prosecutions of government whistle-blowers under the espionage act, warrantless wiretapping, the monitoring of communications, and the persecution of manning, assange, and snowden? haven't they realized that this is a war by a global corporate elite not agains an organization or an individual but against liberty, the freedom of the press, and democracy itself?' - chris hedges 171217 what's it to you? who go blather from