Your meaning of national security, their meaning of National Security
Those in power- from the White House to the war fetishers at the Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute , are up in arms at another “leak” by Wikileaks, saying that the leak of these documents is a breech of federal law and must be punished. Julian Assange, the effective leader of Wikileaks, is being called a “partisan left-wing terror-apologist” by typical right-wingers who think everything is a partisan fight. From all sides the fiasco is being called an irresponsible endangerment of “National Security”. “National Security” is the phrase evoked by the ruling class and those who listen to them as justification for the violation of rights in this situation and many others. The misunderstanding of this term is what I believe is standing in the way of many otherwise critical individuals from critiquing the State’s actions. When most people contemplate the term “National Security”, they imagine it to mean something along the lines of the protection of and ulti...