Originally posted by
Aragorn
I think everyone here knows what a whistleblower is, Chuckie. The issue however is whether any given whistleblower is legitimate or whether they have — or possibly serve — an agenda.
The infamous Q pretended (and possibly still pretends) to be a military insider/whistleblower, and earlier on at 4Chan there was a similar poster — possibly the very same individual — who pretended to be an FBI insider/whistleblower. And let's not forget all of the so-called Illuminati™ whistleblowers, Secret Space Program™ whistleblowers, and whatever else has mounted and exited the stage in the last 15 years or so; this very forum is full of that sort of trash from back in the days when it was chiefly populated by members with egos greater than their discernment skills. :rolleyes:
Of course there have also been legitimate whistleblowers, such as Edward Snowden, Wlilliam Binney, Bradley/Chelsea Manning and others. That goes without saying, and those people are all heroes for having put themselves in harm's way in order to reveal the ugly truth of what's been going on behind the scenes. Perhaps one could even add Julian Assange to that list, even though he was more of a channel through which whistleblowers could share their information with the world than that he would have been a whistleblower himself.
But not every whistleblower is legit — yes, I'm being Captain Obvious™ now — and caution is at the order of the day, especially when it concerns matters that have a certain political color attached to them — whether it's blue or red.