Anonymous y demás: hora de reflexionar

¿Dos colados en la fiesta?

Anarquía, daño, desorden, travesuras juveniles, el acoso cibernético ... mejor se lo dejamos a 4chan - Luzlsec y a The Onion. La filosofía de Wikileaks es "Nada de secretos", porque así es como los poderosos del mundo pueden salirse del todo con la suya. La parte desagradable últimamente es cuando Assange decidió no preocuparse más por la identidad de las personas en situación de riesgo. ¡Eso sí que es actuar con maldad!

La lucha contra los malos gobiernos y las corporaciones malvadas... Creo que es mejor comenzar la lucha contra los malos. No tengo ninguna autoridad ni poder para imponer nada a Ustedes (y sería verdaderamente terrorífico para mi si lo intentara), pero puedo hacer dos propuestas modestas, porque hay realmente espacio para mejorar. Me pregunto ...

- ¿Qué hay arruinar TODOS los sistemas de cámara de tráfico? Si hay una fuente de injusticia a diario en el mundo de hoy eso es esa. Los gobiernos locales se quitaron por fin la máscara y decidieron atacar a los conductores de automóviles que fueron con cámaras ocultas. Para evitar esas multas, la mayoría de las veces las condiciones que se presuponen son ridículamente imposibles de alcanzar. Y las multas van a pagar burocracia inflada en el mejor de los casos, lo que me lleva a la siguiente sugerencia.

- ¿Qué pasa con dejar a los políticos corruptos y a los insensibles burócratas desnudos? ¿Y si algún día se despertaran para descubrir que sus queridas cuentas secretas en paraísos fiscales se convirtieron en humo? Estoy seguro de que eso será celebrado por la gente mucho más que si se lograra que el sistema bancario se viniera abajo.

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Is Wikileaks imploding?

The reason couldn't be other than Julian Assange gigantic ego. I feel so good what I know about American duplicity diplomacy now, but the guy, even if he's facing persecution, should have hired a PR hack to handle the heat he's facing right now. Obviously, he does not like to how his intimate and private details are given away (leaked) to the public. But a clerical error, a major mistake is not to keep your employees happy, as it seems by now. Even some of them are getting fed up of seeing how Assange takes full credit for everything. Now the founder of Wikileaks faces this:

Now irony is looping the loop, and the leaker is being leaked.

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This former president is completely bat-guano insane

I've found out power is sort of a make-up kit. When you have it, no matter how angry, stupid, inconsequential or belligerent you act, you can still look sorta cool. One of the perks of being the alpha male. When you don't, you're just a screaming, pathetic nobody. Have you ever seen in a crowded meeting some mature man past his prime trying to grab all the attention and still trying to be relevant? You force a little smile and try to walk away backwards, slowly, very slowly...

This lame behavior has been the trademark of former Colombian president Alvaro Uribe Vélez for the last couple of months, since he left office and came back from his failed Georgetown University gig. Hah, you know this isn't even true. This lame behavior has been the trademark of former Colombian president Alvaro Uribe Vélez since he was campaigning for president for the first time.

That's not true, either. This erratic, aggressive and mean behavior has been Uribe's trademark for his entire life. At the beginning, he had the youth, then he got the power. Now that he's an ex president, he really looks pathetic and lame when he attempts with a strange and out of order furor to defend his presidency and his former aides from all the attacks, political and judicial, received in the last couple of months.
Taking the novelty of his Twitter account aside (which he couldn't understand how to handle at the beginning, witness the gaffe of trying to issue a lengthy press release this way), Uribe has incurred in so many contradictions, the biggest of them all was to claim there was no possibility of a fair trial for his former aides regarding the colossal wiretapping scandal that marked the end of his presidency.

In fact, it was a multi-gaffe. First, he uttered this whopper outside Colombia, something he vehemently condemned when his political adversaries did the very same thing during his tenure. Second, after tirelessly insisting in how things worked out in his presidency, now that every Colombian could travel across the country without the fear of being kidnapped, and how the overall security substantially improved, it was a curious paradox how things were different a mere few months after his appointed successor, Juan Manuel Santos, took the oath as the new Colombian president. Well, it is not a secret that his heir apparent, Andrés Felipe Arias, couldn't make it past the primaries. Otherwise, things could have been really different (and to his satisfaction). And third: he's right. There's no reasonable way to figure there could be a fair trial, because his former employees waged a war against the judiciary, the first and foremost victim of the wiretapping scandal. That means they brought all this unto themselves (Maybe it was intended as such, since victims cannot judge the offenders).

And now, Uribe faces the inconvenience of Wikileaks. The leaked Department of States cables are beginning to produce a steady embarrassment to him. For starters, his no-nonsense, no-concessions approach to the war against the guerillas has been shattered: it was revealed he was looking for secret peace talks. Besides, everybody knows Hugo Chávez, the Venezuelan president is an authoritarian, not a democrat. But it sounds kind of awkward when Uribe, according to the cables, uses a very non-diplomatic language to assert that Chávez is a Hitler and the Venezuelan situation is akin to the Third Reich Germany. Like Uribe himself were the madman.

And now, Yidis Medina, a congresswoman found guilty of receiving bribes to vote the constitutional reform that allowed Uribe's re-election, says in her tell-all book, that the president begged her for her definitive vote... down in his knees in a rest room.


That does it, he's completely bat-guano insane.

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Wikileaks: la verdad os hará libres

Aunque parezca mentira, la cita del Evangelio de Juan (Capítulo 8, vers. 32) es el eslogan de la CIA. Y qué mayor prueba de que al mundo lo gobierna la mentira que el escándalo que El Tiempo llama "Cablegate" y que la prensa estadounidense llama con el sitio web (que the sipmac ensemble linkeó desde hace meses) que desencadenó lo que promete ser un verdadero pandemonium: Wikileaks.

Los hechos: un insignificante soldado raso llamado Bradley Manning (huele a libro y a película, ¡sí señor!) filtró al website Wikileaks entre 250 y 400 mil comunicaciones del Departamento de Estado. Es como si alguien se hubiera hecho al diario de la confidente más chismosa del vecindario y de pronto todos supiéramos que piensa cada quién de cada cuál.
Wikileaks es propiedad de Julian Assange, un idealista con pinta de Walter Mercado para el que los secretos en el gobierno no deben existir como cuestion de principio. Él mismo está ahora prófugo de la justicia, acusado de acoso sexual y acceso carnal violento (más de uno piensa que le están empezando a girar las tuercas). El mismo website sufrió un ciberataque, pero Assange ya arregló con los principales periódicos del mundo (New York Times, El País, Le Monde) para la publicación de los mensajes.

Hay mucho material explosivo por destacar, yo me limito a resaltar por ahora la "racionalidad "que parece distinguir a la diplomacia mundial: Arabia Saudita, Qatar y los demás vecinos de Irán, están muy preocupados de ver como esta última nación está ad portas de convertirse en una potencia nuclear. Le piden a Estados Unidos que haga algo ya, que les saque las castañas del fuego. El gobierno estadounidense podría pedirle a Arabia Saudita que si bien ya está financiando en forma oficiosa a Al Qaeda, bien Osama bin Laden podría hacerle la tarea. Se dice que la administración Obama le vendió a Arabia Saudita unos 60 mil millones de dólares en armamento. ¿Cuánto iría a parar a Osama?

Para saber la parte de Latinoamérica, como siempre, habría que esperar un par de semanas.

¿Será que sabremos que hacer con tanta libertad?

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