WIKILEAKS (again)

Hello, my name is NOT Neil Patrick Harris

          I suppose one could say I'm a bit behind the times for posting this, as fresh Wikileaks news arrived very early this week, but I felt compelled to catch up on the topic after posting about it in October.  There has, of course been a great deal of media fracas and Hillary Clinton has been having a field day trying to repair diplomatic ties with nations who discovered mildly unpleasant US remarks and plans thanks to a release of quite a few diplomatic cables earlier this week (yes, ENTIRE governments function like cliques of high school girls if given the chance, weaving webs of intrigue and gossiping behind each others backs).  The release of these cables has been called a "diplomatic disaster" and many have feared that it will destabilize already unstable nations like North Korea (as per the recent attack on South Korea). Seriously?? If a volatile country like that is going to arbitrarily attack, it's just going to, not because some it finds out about Wikileaks...then again, Kim Jong Il sort of acts like a pubescent child sometimes, too.
          I digress. Despite the so-called "disaster," I am not particularly upset at the leaks; I actually think it's pretty cool, a sort of modern-day Pentagon Papers.  I mean, from an objective standpoint (concern for American foreign policy aside), it's kind of cool to watch an agent of chaos (think norse troublemaking god Loki) arrive on the scene and stir the pot, challenge the way in which our government conducts its business behind closed doors, make the American public privy to ideas and documents that it would not ordinarily EVER see.  Such occurrences, if timed right, may challenge complacency.  If I was an optimist, I would say maybe this incident will do for American diplomacy what Upton Sinclair's The Jungle did for the meatpacking industry.
          Unfortunately, I'm not an optimist.  Much of the worries about a catastrophic event as the direct result of the leaked cables and other documents found on Wikileaks and its fellow websites were sensationalized by the media.  What will (undoubtedly) happen is a quiet cleanup on the part of our government, the (at least partial) demolition of the website, and the quiet return to pre-Wikileaks normal American life.  It is already beginning.  While still evading the authorities, Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks will not be free for long.  Sites like Amazon and Paypal which tentatively endorsed Wikileaks have slunk meekly back to their corporate empires, tail between their legs.  And the website itself...well, when I attempted to access it today, it said domain not found.  Thus life returns to equilibrium.
          HOWEVER, there is a rumor--spread by various media sources--that Wikileaks may return triumphant, just in time to perform a huge document dump of top secret information from within Wall Street.  Such an exposé of the banking industry would be timely indeed.