Peter King (R-NY) cries war, wants Assange in Gitmo and Wikileaks drone-bombed.

[JackRiddler]

No, seriously.

Gitmo and drone strikes are already what the US has done to those whom the government designates as "terrorists." (King is a big Gitmo supporter.)

King sent Clinton a memo urging that Wikileaks be declared a terrorist organization and Assange prosecuted under the Espionage Act.

He called the release of memos "worse than a military attack." War. No mincing words.

This call for globally enforced fascism is not coming from just any bozo.

King is the incoming chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security.


http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/gop-rep-wikileaks-deemed-foreign-terrorist-organization/

GOP Rep. asks Clinton to declare WikiLeaks a ‘foreign terrorist organization’

By Stephen C. Webster
Sunday, November 28th, 2010 -- 7:20 pm


A Republican Congressman from New York has invented a new definition for the word "terrorism" that doesn't require guns, bombs, vast underground networks of sleeper cells, a criminal conspiracy or even violence. All that's needed to be a terrorist, according to Rep. Peter King, is a website and some inconvenient information.

That's why King sent a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Attorney General Eric Holder on Sunday, demanding that whistleblower website WikiLeaks be deemed a "foreign terrorist organization" and it's founder declared a terror ringleader. "To me they are a clear and present enemy to the United States of America," he told a CBS radio reporter on Sunday.

King said the website's release of sensitive -- but not "top secret" -- US diplomatic cables was "worse than a military attack." Declaring the site a "terrorist" group, King suggested, would allow the US "to seize their funds and go after anyone who provides them with any help or contributions or assistance whatsoever." He also called for site founder Julian Assange to be prosecuted under the Espionage Act.

That may prove difficult, however, given that WikiLeaks did not steal any of the documents it released to the media -- they was given to them by a whistleblower, allegedly a young soldier named Bradley Manning. That sequence of events, of a whistleblower contacting a high profile news venue with explosive information that needs to be made public, happens in newsrooms all across the country every week. Though inconvenient for officials, the revelation of information contained in any of the WikiLeaks files, much like the Pentagon Papers amid the Vietnam war, is crucial to maintaining an enlightened public -- a point the US Supreme Court made abundantly clear in New York Times Co. v. United States in 1971.

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[WinkyDink]

1. Peter King has been a blowhard loon for years.

[malaise]

2. Peter King's view of the world is that his government can do

anything it wants anywhere it wants and anyone who objects should be drone killed or sent to Gitmo. There was a time when fascists like him were locked up.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. EEEK!! The truth wiill bring about the end of civilization!!!

What if the common herd find out what their "leaders" are doing?!!?? Why, they might start asking questions!!

[hayu_lol]

5. Time for Peter King, Bush, Cheney,

Rummy, Ashcroft and the rest of those fumbling ninnies to enter the gulag. Sooner they are under lock and key, the better off the world will be.

[annabanana]

4. And Peter Fuckin' King's stellar record remains unblemished.

It is humiliating to admit that this wackjob is my rep. Local Dems are ineffectual and timid corporatists.

[Davis_X_Machina]

6. The ingrate...

...here's an outfit providing evidence that everybody and his brother in the ME wants Iran taken down a peg, which is King's most fervid dream, and he wants them prosecuted and stuff?

No gratitude in the man.

[annabanana]

7. Intellectual consistency is not his strong suit...n/t

[JackRiddler]

8. kick

[TheKentuckian]

9. Has anyone be more wrong, over a longer period of time, at a higher volume?

I'm sure there must be but his fat head fills my mind at the moment.

He's not even an extreme loon (certainly daffy as the duck, but pretty much on Broadway of Republicans) he's just like infinitely wrongheaded and a huge loudmouth.

[the redcoat]

10. I'm waiting for someone to release intel on a nation that isn't an ally

So I can sit back and laugh when these same politicians call those leaks acts of heroism and patriotism.

[glinda]

11. I just didn't think it could get worse than Bush but shoot me I am wrong.

[Catherina]

12. King belongs in Gitmo along with several of his Congress buddies

for crimes against America. He was one of the way early supporters and misled this nation into an illegal war that killed thousands of young Americans.

Off to Gitmo with this asshole that even the NYT calls "the Patriot Act's most fervent fan."

Round em up for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

[sabrina 1]

13. Peter King is a lunatic, always was. He is also the one

who openly admitted to election fraud, when he stated that they would win, because they were the ones counting the votes.

I is in a very rightwing part of NY, although I thought even in his district they had enough of him by now.

It's interesting how concerned he is about 'terror'. He was a huge supporter of the IRA, it got him lots of votes in his dist.

I guess one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.

As for his ridiculous statements about Assange, we, the U.S. have no jurisdiction over Assange. He is not an American and has every right to expose criminals around the globe if he has the courage to do it.

King seems to think the U.S. rules the world. Assange is hugely people around the globe. If the U.S. harms him in any way, I think that might one step too far for this country. We are not exactly popular anywhere these days.

[JackRiddler]

14. Very dangerous nevertheless.