Conservative editor: WikiLeaks founder should have been murdered with radioactive waste

[unhappycamper]

Conservative editor: WikiLeaks founder should have been murdered with radioactive waste
By Stephen C. Webster
Friday, October 29th, 2010 -- 4:40 pm

One of the editors at The National Review, a magazine most closely identified with Bush-era neoconservative thought, sure has a potent imagination.

Perhaps potent isn't quite the right word. Poisonous, on the other hand, just might be.

Writing for the magazine's website on Friday, online editor Jonah Goldberg drummed up a few fantastical scenarios in which America's spy agencies might rub out WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. One of them was through the use of toxic nuclear waste.

Spinning competing hypothetical scenarios based loosely around the frame of what many Americans think their spooks are capable of, he just outright says it: " think Assange, super-whistle-blower of the international Left, would be a greasy stain on the autobahn already."

Then he adds: "Assange’s shrimp-on-the-barbie should have had Strontium-90 in it years before anyone heard his name."



unhappycamper comment: WTF is wrong with these people? This is NOT the America I grew up in.

[Ex Lurker]

1. I met Goldberg socially years ago through a mutual acquaintance.

He was a punk then, sounds like he hasn't changed.

[Bobbieo]

2. So, neoconservatives admit that radioactive waste does kill.. The Navajo Nation will

agree with them, too..

[madokie]

8. A few here won't agree with that though

check out the E/E forum for the likes of those who wouldn't agree with you. I know you already know this and I'm just taking this opportunity to point out the fact that nuclear power plant waste is dangerous.
Peace and have a great day.

[WinkyDink]

3. This isn't just anybody; this is JONAH GOLDBERG, son of LUCIANNE of Lewinsky infamy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonah_Goldberg

"Goldberg's career as a pundit was launched following his mother Lucianne Goldberg's role in the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, when he wrote about the "media siege" on his mother's apartment in The New Yorker.<6><7>

Goldberg has spoken of his mother and the Lewinsky scandal:

My mother was the one who advised Linda Tripp to record her conversations with Monica Lewinsky and to save the dress. I was privy to some of that stuff, and when the administration set about to destroy Lewinsky, Tripp, and my mom, I defended my mom and by extension Tripp...I have zero desire to have those arguments again. I did my bit in the trenches of Clinton's trousers.<8>

These tapes became the focal point of the Lewinsky scandal."
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Gee, you'd think he would want these secrets revealed and even an impeachment proceeding or three.

[redirish28]

4. Technically in this day and age wouldn't pose as a Terroristic threat?

[CJCRANE]

5. This guy sounds like

he'd be at home in the KGB.

[rurallib]

6. Ironic he would choose "greasy stain on the Autobahn"

as imagery. How very nazi-esque of him.

[madokie]

7. But it is the one the BFEE

wants you to live in going out.

the bush family needs to be hauled before a judge and soon as I see them as those behind the curtains

[madmax]

9. Some folks really need to see a shrink nt

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

10. Posters who agree with Goldberg in 3... 2... 1...

[truth2power]

12. I expect it. Some of the views I see on this progressive board

are just appalling. Over at Common Dreams they're allowed to be called out as trolls.

But here, we need MORE civility. Uh huh.

[spanone]

11. ah yes, murder is the best way to silence your opponents

:sarcasm:

[Octafish]

13. The country has not been the same since November 22, 1963.

The warmongers are just more open about it of late.

The cowardly idiot Jonah Goldberg is the turd who took over Robert Scheer's column after the LA Times canned Scheer for being "too hard" on Dim Son, a guy who lied America into two illegal, immoral and unnecessary wars.

[Canuckistanian]

14. The Doughy Pantload strikes again

Doesn't he have some terror babies to track down?

[AngryOldDem]

15. This is NOT the America I grew up in, either.

This ratcheting up of violence through rhetoric and imagery is unprecendented, at least in my memory.

Have you noticed, too, that the same kind of rhetoric has been common in many state and local campaign ads as well?

What was it Credence Clearwater Revival said? "I see a bad moon risin'...I see trouble on the way"?