‘They’ are out to get him AN OUTSIDERS VIEW Ken Fuller 12/14/2010

‘They’ are out to get him

AN OUTSIDERS VIEW

Ken Fuller

12/14/2010
Most of us have seen at least one of those movies (usually American) where the protagonist, having stumbled across some top-level conspiracy, is forced underground as “they” (shadowy forces deployed by the state) are, until the final minutes, out to get him. Examples would be Three Days of the Condor (1975) and Enemy of the State (1998). Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, must know how those protagonists feel.

Some of the “revelations” that have surfaced in the 250,000 secret US documents disseminated to selected newspapers by WikiLeaks are not exactly news. For example, Bank of England governor Mervyn King apparently thinks UK Prime Minister David Cameron and his Finance Secretary George Osborne are political lightweights, lacking depth. President Obama, we learn, shares this view of Cameron. And — shock! horror! — it turns out that Prince Andrew, second son of the current British monarch, is a foulmouthed boor who thinks the Serious Fraud Office and investigative journalists do British business a disservice by sniffing around for evidence of corporate corruption..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20101214com5.html