# Wikileaks has released the documents **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [November 28, 2010, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikileaks-has-released-the-documents/562198 "2010-11-28T19:56:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2010, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikileaks-has-released-the-documents/562198/101 "2010-12-07T04:19:02Z")
> [@Rune](#): > > A public institution that produces children’s vaccinations and one that produces small pox vaccinations and another that produces diabetes medicine are not really facilities most people associated with places that need a high level of security, beyond that which the costly installations demands. And the extra insecurity these places now much live with are the result of them trading with the USA, not the products they produce for the local market. Anyway it seems Assange released them just for the heck of it, and WikiLeaks moved from farce to nihilistic vandalism. > > Most Danes already know these places produce vaccinations and medicine. Many know they export to the USA. Few knew that the USA considered them very important to US security and potential terror targets. > > Two options. That’s probably rather shallow thinking on your part. Yeh, terrorists are poring over Wikileaks trying to [pick their next target. They were thinking about attacking America but now they know you have drug companies. One drug company manufactures in 65 different countries. there are lots of drug companies. They are manufactured all over the globe. Nothing has changed. you are not in any more danger than you were before. Chill out. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2010, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikileaks-has-released-the-documents/562198/102 "2010-12-07T18:28:04Z")
Now there’s something in one of the cables about the possibility of, in exchange for Thailand having extradited Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout to the US, the US extraditing that rat bastard Thaksin, the deposed prime minister, to Thailand. And the US just invited Thaksin to speak at some function. Hmmm. Could be interesting, if he actualy shows up. ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_Stimulus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Digital\_Stimulus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_Stimulus)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2010, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikileaks-has-released-the-documents/562198/103 "2010-12-07T18:49:45Z")
> [@Rune](#): > > Most Danes already know these places produce vaccinations and medicine. Many know they export to the USA. Few knew that the USA considered them very important to US security and potential terror targets. Yes, and? It is folly to assume others are stupid; it is negligent to base security on that assumption, as you are advocating. > [@](#): > > Two options. That’s probably rather shallow thinking on your part. You would do well to grasp the meaning of “most”. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2010, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikileaks-has-released-the-documents/562198/104 "2010-12-17T01:42:45Z")
Some interesting Thailand-related Wikileaks posted [here](http://thaicables.wordpress.com/2010/12/15/bangkok-003317-palace-insider-tells-ambassador/). They’ve not been blocked in Thailand … yet. Can’t comment on some of them without risking a 15-year prison sentence, but it’s good to know the US keeps good intelligence on what’s going on. I can say that the military coup referred to in the first two is after the September 2006 coup that ousted that rat bastard Thaksin. Now ex-prime minister Somchai is part of the pro-Thaksin red shirts that went on to burn much of Bangkok this year, and the reference must be to a coup that had been planned against him. He’s Thaksin’s brother-in-law and was indeed forced from office inside of a year. Still wish Wikileaks wouldn’t keep publishing private documents unless it’s exposing genuine malfeasance, but the cat’s out of the bag now. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikileaks-has-released-the-documents/562198.md?page=5)