Rep. Peter King: WikiLeaks Should Be A 'Terror Organisation'

[Turborama]

Source: Sky News

10:08pm UK, Sunday November 28, 2010

Rob Cole, Sky News Online

An American politician has called for WikiLeaks to be designated a terrorist organisation following the release of the latest batch of leaked documents.

New York Republican Peter King said the organisation was a "clear and present danger" to the US.

"WikiLeaks presents a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States," he said. "I strongly urge you (Foreign Secretary Hillary Clinton) to work within the Administration to use every offensive capability of the US government to prevent further damaging releases by WikiLeaks."

The White House was also critical of the leak of US cables.

Read more: http://news.sky.com/skynews/Article/201009115837684

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Is this what it takes to get bipartisanship?

[Matariki]

1. I hate Peter "we'll count the votes" King. He's a danger to democracy.

[NYMdaveNYI]

9. He’s my congressman....

:eyes:

[HockeyMom]

15. WHY does your district consistently

re-elect this moron when the rest of LI votes Dems, even where registered Reps outnumber Dems?

Congrats to my former rep, Tim Bishop, for winning after all the absentee and military votes were counted.

[NYMdaveNYI]

32. The Irish are VERY conservative;

it’s disgusting.

[Matariki]

36. Given his brag during the 2004 elections - I would expect election fraud in his district

Congressman Peter King, the Republican from New York state, in 2004 on election day while people were voting all over this country, this was John Kerry versus George W. Bush, was being filmed by Nancy Pelosi’s daughter for a documentary. I think her name is Alexandra Pelosi? And Nancy Pelosi’s daughter walked up to Congressman Peter King who was at this drunken Republican celebration of the fact that they were going to win, and said, ‘How do you think it’s going to turn out? Is Bush going to win? Is Kerry going to win? What’s going on?’ and this is what congressman Peter King had to say, keep in mind the Republican party, the party of the electronic voting machines, this is what Peter King had to say:

Peter King: “We won.”
Alexandra Pelosi: “How do you know that?
Peter King: “It’s all over but the counting. And we’ll take care of the counting.”


http://www.thomhartmann.com/blog/2010/08/transcript-thom-hartmann-plays-anthony-weiner-raising-hell-peter-king-and-secret-king-r

[NYMdaveNYI]

38. Firstly

NY-CD-3 is very very conservative. It’s the irish and italians.


Secondly, the State of New York only started using electronic machines this year; previously, we used lever machines.

[rasputin1952]

42. I remember those!

:D

I recall casting my first ballot in one of those and enjoyed it thoroughly...:D

King is a stinkape. He should be tossed into a dumpster w/10 rabid weasels, after 2 days. take him out, tar and feather the clown and send him to Pakistan to fight in the war he so loves.

[NYMdaveNYI]

44. Yup.

And look at New York, with our brand-spanking-new machines that forced a recount already....

rip-roarin’ into the 20th Century!

[Name removed]

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[Judi Lynn]

54. Well, we can dream!

http://www.tdbimg.com.nyud.net:8090/files/2010/01/07/img-bs-top---massie-king_181825987824.jpg http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com.nyud.net:8090/assets_c/2009/08/peter-king-cropped-proto-custom_6.jpg http://www.alligatorsinthesewer.net.nyud.net:8090/images/peteking.jpg

[No Elephants]

53. Sigh. Irish and Italians used to vote Dem overwhelmingly, as did most non-WASPs.

[HockeyMom]

58. I am BOTH Italian and Irish

My parents voted Dem, I vote Dem, and both my daughters (sitll live on LI) vote Dem. When I move back to LI this summer, I will STILL vote Dem. Although I voted on lever machines since 1968 in NY, I have now voted with both touch screen and optical scanners in Florida. WATCH OUT, Reps. I KNOW what I am doing and know when something isn't "right".

[Taverner]

59. "danger to democracy" perfectly describes him

Pete King is ANTI AMERICAN as they come

[Matariki]

2. delete

duplicate post.

[kgnu_fan]

3. um... which country is invading and occupying a sovereign country?

[Autumn]

4. How funny. One persons terrorist is another persons hero.

personally I have always thought most Republicans and a few Democrats are a "clear and present danger" to the US.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

5. Couldn't the same thing be said about the CIA? nt

[NYMdaveNYI]

8. +1000000 nt

[Liberal Veteran]

6. The word "terrorism" has drifted so far from the original meaning....

..that the word means nothing and everything.

[DJ13]

7. The GOP is a terrorist organization

[ejbr]

23. +1 n/t

[Imajika]

10. Well, this is silly...

...but these Wikileaks releases will still cost us all billions.

The US government will now spend enormous sums of money to harden security on classified/secret documents, clearance protocol will be tightened and secrecy will actually increase.

[daleo]

49. And there will still be leaks

Think of how hard the Soviets tried to suppress leaks, yet they could never really control things.

[Imajika]

56. Well, there will always be some leaks...

And very often the information getting out is probably going directly to foreign powers since we all spy on each other.

The US just had the misfortune of having a traitor like Bradley Manning in its ranks. In the future, this kind of information will be locked down and harder to get to. But yeah, information will always leak from time to time.

[NYMdaveNYI]

11. I stopped caring what this

fucking RW troll had to say a long time ago.

You can imagine how ecstatic I am to have this jackoff as my congressman...

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

12. CIA IS a terrorist organization !

[Drale]

13. I think the entire right wing should be designated a terrorist organization

we all don't get our way but hell thats democracy.

[Hawkeye-X]

14. No. Republicans and Tea Party should be labelled as Terror & Hate Group

Nuff said.

[Tx4obama]

33. The Republican TeaParty. *no need to use the word 'and' ;) n/t

[fascisthunter]

16. Wonder what this piece of shit is hiding?

nice attempt at smear... attack the messenger indeed.

[City Lights]

17. Opinions are like assholes, Peter. Everybody has one!

You're a two-bit hypocritical hack.

[provis99]

18. so says IRA supporter Peter King.

the hypocrisy and projectionism of Republicans is mind-boggling.

[Name removed]

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[Turborama]

21. The IRA bombed & murdered civilians in England and Northern Ireland

You support that do you?

Want me to give you a full list of all their victims?

[saras]

20. Semantics

"WikiLeaks Should Be A 'Terror Organisation'"

In a way I agree - not that they should be LABELED one, but that they would be more effective at making the world better if they had the power to summarily execute the criminals they expose, not merely publicize their working papers.

[ixion]

22. Said a representative of the LARGEST state sponsor of terror in the world

which would be the US, of course.

[Pavulon]

24. Yea, fuck us for trying to secure HEU in pakistan and reunite korea

to the Hague with, well fuck, someone tell me what to think... Documents dont provide evidence to support my fuck America stance, ahhh.

[sendero]

26. You keep bringing this up..

... as though making this happen would somehow made a TINY DENT in all of the major league fuckups this country has been engaged in since around 1965.

News flash, the abject incompetence of our own government is the REASON Pakistan has nukes and the continued major league fucking up courtesy of our government makes your little pet project a gnat on an elephant's ass.

[Pavulon]

30. Actually the EU transferred that info, another book for you to read..

they all sat around with their thumbs up their ass while this happened.

But hey, fuck america, we are terrorists and should all shoot ourselves in the head from pure shame...

Two pet projects, oh and reuniting germany after the soviet mess, yeah fuck us.

[movonne]

25. He and half of the repugs should be on the terrorist list..

[L0oniX]

27. The US government is a terrorist organization.

[Joe Chi Minh]

28. That way, you could torture him. Maybe redefine torture.... How about that!

[tavalon]

29. Abraham Lincoln said it better than I:

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln

[webDude]

31. Whistleblowers are terrorists?

[blackspade]

34. FU Peter King!

Why don't we call you a terrorist for what you have helped the GOP do to the American people?

[Owl]

35. Such nonsense. P. King is full of crap.

[lobodons]

37. Faux Noise is a terrorist organization

Fear fear fear, mistruths, mistruths, and mistruths is all you get over there.

[truthisfreedom]

39. If you rearrange his thoughts into something that makes sense, he's saying that the US government is

a terrified organization. Terrified of what it's done, the way it's done (and continues to do) it, and being exposed.

What a way to make us look weak, Pete.

[Metta]

40. And what of Republicans and conservative Dems who want to keep us ignorant, enslaved and chained to

their monied overlords' wheels? Happy karma to them all.

[harvey007]

41. Then King will have to add the NY Times

Many leading newspapers around the world are publishing what Wikileaks has uncovered. Are they also "terror organizations?"

"WikiLeaks said on Twitter early Sunday that its website was "under a mass distributed denial of service attack" but promised that Spain's El Pais, France's Le Monde, Germany's Der Spiegel, Britain's Guardian newspaper and The New York Times "will publish many US embassy cables tonight, even if WikiLeaks goes down." WikiLeaks had given the media outlets prior access to the diplomatic cables to publish in conjunction with their Sunday release on its site."

[boppers]

61. The supposed DDoS was a 20% increase in traffic.

No biggie.

[and-justice-for-all]

43. "Republicans presents a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States," nt

[rasputin1952]

46. King is a stinkape...

he was dredged up at low tide by the GOP and has proven himself time after time to be just a smidgen smarter than one of his cronies that was considered the "dumbest member of congress" by both House D's and R's...that really classy, JD Hayworth...peas in a pod... :D

[Jennicut]

47. How is releasing classified info being a terrorist? Is Assange going personally targeting someone

with violence? I think Assange has a big ego but that is about all one can accuse him of.

[daleo]

48. Reminiscent of the Soviet union

Whistle blowers were considered terrorists by them too.

[Major Hogwash]

50. Along with Senator Lindsay Graham, and a few others.

I wonder if the newly elected Speaker of the House Boehner will conduct Congressional investigations into ex-President Bush's administration because of what has become public knowledge about the lies he told to start the Iraq War, or for negligence concerning how Bush ignored warnings of 9-11 about to happen, or for the admission in his own book of ordering waterboarding to be done, which was designated as a form of torture by the Geneva Conventions before George W. Bush was even born!!!!

Probably not.
They're going to go after Rangel and after they get done with him, they'll go after Maxine Waters and some more of the Democrats in the House.

The "We report, you decide" House of Representatives of 2011 will do nothing about the greatest foreign policy mistake of the 21st century.

[Alamuti Lotus]

51. too bad, asshole -- just another cockroach that fears the light

[No Elephants]

52. I fear people who say "terror" when they mean " terrorist" or "terrorism."

You know, like Dummya and his War on Terror.

Heck, we couldn't even win our war on drugs. Did we really expect to end fear?

[Blue_Tires]

55. the irony for people with short memories is

remember a year and a half ago when the RWers were all orgasmic because they thought wikileaks had delivered the final "smoking gun" on the climate change fraud? how many awards and honor were they about to bestow on Assange then??

[LeftishBrit]

57. Peter King is such a hypocrite...

He was one big supporter of the IRA when they were still carrying out bombing attacks in the UK; so how he can call anyone else pro-terrorist is beyond me.

[fascisthunter]

60. what does Peter Fear?