WikiLeaks: Stratfor Confidential Emails To Be Published By The Millions
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Those who have a problem with what Wikileaks is doing should read this book by Eyal Press - Beautiful Souls: Saying No, Breaking Ranks, and Heeding the Voice of Conscience in Dark Times
On the Swiss border with Austria in 1938, a police captain refuses to enforce a law barring Jewish refugees from entering his country. In the Balkans half a century later, a Serb from the war-blasted city of Vukovar defies his superiors in order to save the lives of Croats. At the height of the Second Intifada, a member of Israel’s most elite military unit informs his commander he doesn’t want to serve in the occupied territories.
Fifty years after Hannah Arendt examined the dynamics of conformity in her seminal account of the Eichmann trial, Beautiful Souls explores the flipside of the banality of evil, mapping out what impels ordinary people to defy the sway of authority and convention. Through the dramatic stories of unlikely resisters who feel the flicker of conscience when thrust into morally compromising situations, Eyal Press shows that the boldest acts of dissent are often carried out not by radicals seeking to overthrow the system but by true believers who cling with unusual fierceness to their convictions. Drawing on groundbreaking research by moral psychologists and neuroscientists, Beautiful Souls culminates with the story of a financial industry whistleblower who loses her job after refusing to sell a toxic product she rightly suspects is being misleadingly advertised. At a time of economic calamity and political unrest, this deeply reported work of narrative journalism examines the choices and dilemmas we all face when our principles collide with the loyalties we harbor and the duties we are expected to fulfill.
If the American people are ever going to take back the government, we need many more Julian Assanges, in every walk of power, coming forward with what they know at whatever personal risk they face. Not just because it's the correct and moral thing to do, but because those abusing their power don't stop until they have it all.
From Catch 22 -
CAPT. NATELY : "What you don't understand is that it's better to die on your feet than live on your knees"
OLD MAN: "You have it backwards - It's better to live on your feet than to die on your knees."
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