Wikileaks

Wikileaks is a catastrophe!  Wikileaks puts lives in danger!  Wikileaks is unbelievably horrible.  So says just about everyone…except me, that is.  I think it’s hilarious.  Why?  Because, first of all, none of it is ’classified,’ and even if it were, so what?  There’s far too much secrecy in government, politics, and even banking also.  When there’s a secret, whether its about war, peace, politics, or finance, there’s certain to be crimes or dastardly deeds which are being concealed or kept secret.  Politicians and envoys calling each other names?  Maybe they shouldn’t do it.  Bank of America’s innermost screwing of its customers about to be leaked?  Maybe Bank of America, or whoever, shouldn’t be dishonest in the first place.  Wikileaks is investigative journalism as it used to be.

Think about who benefits, protects, and looks out for itself.  Governments and corporations, that’s who.  The corner grocer, jeweler, bakery, or auto dealership, looks out for their customers, and strives to please them.  When they go broke or bankrupt, its usually because they tried so hard, that they couldn’t make it.  Government can’t go broke or bankrupt, because it can print all the money it needs, and to hell with the citizens, who see their dollars shrink in value every day.  Corporations care about the corporate stockholders, not the customers.  The CEO of a corporation, will close factories in America, and send the whole thing overseas or to Mexico, and to hell with the workers.  They have to keep the stock price high, so they can be a hero, and get a big bonus.  There are hundreds of corporations who no longer make things in America, because of cheap labor overseas, not to mention a lack of unions.

I have been a contributor to the restoration of steam locomotive 315, which sat in the weather for 58 years in a Durango Colorado park.  She was built in 1888, and is now totally restored.  The air pump was missing, so the restorers bought a new one from China, which was supposed to be an exact copy.  It gave endless troubles, and has recently been replaced by a rebuilt 95 year old Westinghouse one, and naturally it is doing just fine.  China has yet to be able to produce quality, but that doesn’t stop Corporate CEO’s from having inferior merchandise made in China, including poisonous sheet rock and baby formula, to mention but a couple.

The Federal government, with its hundreds of thousands of bureaucrats, TSA gropers, and others, who pester and hinder our lives and businesses, care only about themselves…not us.  The question begs itself.  Who cares for us?  Not corporations, nor government.  Individual businesses and businesspeople care for us, and as far as I am concerned, individually owned, non-national banks.  Managers of huge banks, with their myriad offices and branches, care not a whit about customers individually. Their managers want bonuses for profits made, not for goodwill created.

If Wikileaks blows a hole in crooked, corrupt governments, banks, and corporations, why not?  TV shows, reporters, web sites, or any other method of communication, which exposes dishonesty, corruption, and blatant disregard for individuals, should be applauded.  I think it’s hilarious that all the Pooh Bahs are being put on the spot for their undercover shenanigans.