Wikileaks - India

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Every now and then, when you think the life of the public has kinda become dull, there's some ... entity sure to put a mocking smile on your face. This is one of those occasions.



Isn't it perfectly memorable when people with no distinctions in either sense or ethics start standing on a box and preaching to the rest? I hope Wikileaks will next release a fact-file on this nobody, just so that it would irritate said nobody no end what other people may be thinking of him. (Not that anyone would be thinking of others - let alone him - but he seems paranoid enough to fall for it. Imagine the fun one can have with people like this, one can mess with their minds real easy.)



Note: I make no comments on rightness/wrongness of the various aspects and instances of the actual matter. Am just making fun of him.



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07/12/2010

Wikileaks unethical, wrong, anti-peace: Tharoor

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(Who's peace? It's peachy fine for AmriKKKan soldiers to kill civilians in cold blood (and gloat about it; but isn't that what AmriKKKans do?), but it is "unethical, wrong and anti-peace" for Wikileaks to leak that into the public? Hmmm, let me think now: I may choose to buy that if AmriKKKan army logic were to find Tharoor next. Because what's good for the goose is surely...)





New Delhi: Shashi Tharoor, former minister of state for external affairs, calls the the latest expose by whistleblower website WikiLeaks unethical and wrong and says the contents of some leaked diplomatic cables cannot conclusively establish the view one country holds of another.



"I have absolutely no doubt that this is unethical and wrong because the confidentiality of government communications is the lifeblood of diplomatic comfort," said Tharoor, a lawmaker from Thiruvananthapuram who has also served as a undersecretary general at the United Nations.



"You do not effectively run a government if your own diplomats cannot report to their own capitals in utter candour," Tharoor, who was a contender and India's candidate for the post of secretary general of the United Nations, told IANS in an interview here.

(His lips are moving, but the lines are surely not meant to be his...

And wasn't he reporting to his foreign 2nd wife before? You know, the "Canadian civil servant who works with the United States on disarmament issues." What, no pillow talk even?)



He was speaking about the revelations being carried by various newspapers and websites worldwide, based on the ongoing analysis of some 250,000 leaked US diplomatic cables, many of which were published online by WikiLeaks.



Tharoor said diplomacy was also about not sharing perceptions about individuals holding high office with foreign governments as they cannot be entirely accurate and complete. "It's only people inside the system who see the entirety of the file and can view the accurate picture," he said.

(So when the islamaniac baddies and their buddies had tentative plans to assassinate Modi, it was actually taken out of context? The "accurate" picture of TSP's "regard" for Modi reveals something bigger, better, deeper and more profound?)



"Quite frankly it is silly to draw apocalyptic conclusions from that about any country."

(Take note. Tharoor would know all about Silly, being a queen of it.)



Tharoor said what was also irritating about these leaks is they not only violated the peace canons of diplomatic conduct but also sullied the common sense that revealing matters out of context do not actually achieve the larger points these whistleblowers to make.



Founded in 2006 as a non-profit by Australian journalist Julian Paul Assange, WikiLeaks is a whistleblower website that claims to open up governments by providing innovative, secure and anonymous way for sources to leak information through websites.



This time it has created a storm by leaking some 250,000 dispatches to the US by its diplomats from various countries, contents of which have not only embarrassed Washington, but also some countries vis a vis others.

(All my comments were irrelevant for the reason of "He's so lame he deserves to be dismissed, even out of context". If silly people insist on making public speeches - especially the high-handed kind - I think I recall that that much-vaunted freedom of speech thing promised one the right to make pointless low-brow fun of them.)



Uh, nice ... frock Tharoor is wearing in the second pic. (Well, had to compliment him on something.) Sorry, latching onto the trivial again. I'm sure Tharoor said something real deep, about Peace And Other Stuff. But it went over my head, past my tail and I never saw it again.