'Whistles where Needed, 'Spartacus' Where Necessary.'

[americanstranger]

It's absolutely infuriating that citizens of Iraq have a better chance of affecting renegade practices by their government than citizens of The Greatest Democracy Ever. But as William Jackson has said, it needs to be done. The question becomes how do whistleblowers gain cover for exposing the illegal acts of a sitting administration? A possible solution could be what I'll refer to as 'The Spartacus Strategy.' (This is not exactly an original idea - the concept was discussed here (http://www.shouldexist.org/story/2000/6/18/1578/33560) long before September 11 - and even before Bush became president.) The idea makes sense.

Imagine a leak of yet another illegal act by Bush is leaked to the media, and the Bush administration, true to form, seeks to punch back at those responsible for the leak. What would happen if half of the federal employees in the department or agency where the link originated stood up and said 'I leaked the story?' What if they were joined by 20 or 30 thousand bloggers, each of whom had copies of the leaked documents on their servers? What if a good number of Democrats in Congress called a press conference to announce that they had a hand in leaking the documents to the media? And what if they were joined by high-profile organizations like Media Matters and MoveOn?

If the final number of people claiming to be 'Spartacus' ended up in the neighborhood of 50,000 Americans, would the Bush administration dare to prosecute all of them?

Sure, it's a far-fetched idea. But there must be a way for concerned Americans to provide legal cover for those remaining federal employees with active consciences to get the word out. And what better way than for thousands - possibly millions of Americans - to stand with the whistleblowers and share the responsibility? There is no shortage of people in this country who do not agree with what Bush has done in our name. How difficult would it be to motivate them all to share in the stakes of exposing a corrupt government?

http://tinyurl.com/9vbks

-as

[greenman3610]

1. Ok

It's me. I leaked it.

[Cleita]

2. If people could come together as a group it would work, but

I doubt if they will. In Spartacus, the slaves had nothing to lose, so solidarity was a survival thing for them. For most Americans, they will be thinking about keeping the family together and fed first, so it probably wouldn't work.

[americanstranger]

4. What about bloggers?

There are millions of us. I'd do it.

-as

[HysteryDiagnosis]

3. Soon you would see signs such as this up and down every

highway in Amerika.... just to give people the mental conditioning not to claim rights to the "leak".

[cosmicdot]

5. whistles all around for everyone

"one if by land, two if by sea"