RAP NEWS 4: Wikileaks vs The Pentagon - original

This is a matter of National Security.

A cyberattack on America.

Right now, China, the government can disconnect parts of its internet in a case of war,

we need to have that here too.

I'm Robert Foster and I'm pleased to see

so many tuning in on the only remaining free frequency.

The internet: this one narrow bandwidth

this one legitimate open channel to transmit

locally, globally, unrestricted

is currently being threatened with a kill switch.

Will the web remain so free to stand

if the senate votes credit for Joseph Lieberman ?

And here's the man, to tell us the factors.

Representing the pentagon it's general Baxter.

- Good to see you, general.

- Nice to be back, son.

- Can you explain this killswitch and why this reaction ?

- It's simple, bob ! We can't just try and relax,

we're in a state of war, with our eyes on the facts.

And troops will die in Iraq

if we lie on our back

jerkin' of to porn during a cyberattack.

Protect the data, or the terrorists will erase them

and we'll be stuck sucking titties in the playpen.

- But using the killswitch, won't that increase the mayhem ?

- It may then, but at least it'll be our freakin' mayhem !

And it beats waiting for what the axis of evil can prove to be.

this is an actual matter of National Security

The net confuses me, but I'm prepared for this

I'm assuming every human is a cyberterrorist.

- Right. To compare to this, now the next to speak is Julian Assange, co-founder of WikiLeaks.

Julian Assange ?
-Hello.

- It's nice that you've surfaced.

Tell us, what is WikiLeaks, what is the site's purpose ?

- Well the site's purpose is to provide a safe haven

in the new dawn of information, documentation.

Wistleblowing, bell ringing, truth speaking.

All of this, you can leak it using our unique technologies.

Knowledge is power, so our promess is :

if the document is from politics, military industrial complexes

Mormon-church conferences, these lame sororities

no matter what it is, the sources remain anonymous.

And thus we usher in a new era of Scientific journalism:

articles should be researched with precision

And contain links to sources they refer to in 'em

This will encourage openism and deter the hidden

- People will've heard that you were catapulted further into the public eye by one leak,

- yes Collateral Murder

while troops cause gore from a lurking chopper

Media whores ignore war and pour awards on the 'Hurt Locker'

- General?
- Wikileaks? I'm familiar with it

Julian, buddy! we should chat, come in for a minute

- I don't think so, General, that's strictly forbidden,

I keep my location and my identity hidden

- What? You better listen and do what you're told to do,

Your grave'll be hidden, when we get a hold of you.

We'll chuck you on the barbie flames like shrimps

Didn't you see what we did to David Hicks?

- Well, I was gonna wait until the end of the week,

But I think It's time to release the very next Wikileak.

After 'Collateral Murder', this is 'Collateral Killing-spree'

A voice you'll recognise, committing acts of infamy. Roll the tape.

- You peacenik, you're betraying your flag, snitch

that clip's out of context; those are standard tactics.

- Ah, Mister Assange, we interrupt the newsfeed

For a message from a regular guest, Terrence Moonseed.

- Bob, WikiLeaks is actually a ploy,

The CIA is backing this Draco Malfoy

to sow confusion, hi-tech decepticon

A bluebeam illusion, psi-ops Echelon

He's Saruman, a Deep-throat of the system

leaking war, just to keep the UFO's hidden.

Drop the facts of alien contact now, Assange?

And BP's leak, it's all there in the hour-glass!

- Ah… Mr Assange, it has been suggested

That Wikileaks represents excessive power for the unelected,

Is there a danger that you could bring to the public eye

something which should genuinely remain classified?

- Uh, what, Robert... Something like this?

"Welcome to Kappa Phi Delta, now you're my bitch!"
"OW!"

- How did you get those portraits?

-I told you, Robert, we never disclose our sources.

Well, there's just enough time left to end the show

Summing up what we know and what we've yet to know.

It's getting hard to tell what's real and what's fiction

When secrecy and censorship control the whole spectrum.

So let's consider how Julian Assange and his team,

Channeled a potent tool for total transparency,

Shattering schemes and the myth we've been sold

by a fourth-estate that rolled-over and did as it's told,

training us all to forget and forego

but truth leaks like oil in the gulf of Mexico.

If we know what our wars look like,

are we at risk of not knowing who the 'good guys' are?

Keep your wits about you: the battle lines are merging,

an information war, with an appetite for turning

the great walls of China, Palestine and Berlin

into fire walls, black lists, a wire curtain

over this small, crucial, window of opportunity:

The internet - unprecedented global community -

An epochal evolution, telepathic synapse

while all major media source have been hijacked.

Picture this as we part:

our perception of reality expressed as a chart;

we've lost TV to Murdoch, the press to the sharks;

This internet our last channel to connect to the mark.

No rhetorical questions at last:

If we lose this frequency we'll be left in the dark.