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Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain! ... "
Roger Stone
 
Liliputins. What, the heck, is this?
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Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain! The Great Oz has spoken!

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain” is a memorable quote from the movie “The Wizard of Oz”. The phrase is used to describe the act of maintaining an illusion and not revealing the truth behind it. In the movie, the Wizard of Oz appears to be a giant floating head, but Toto, Dorothy’s dog, pulls back a curtain to reveal that the wizard is actually a man operating a machine. The phrase has since become a popular idiom used to describe situations where someone is trying to hide something or maintain an illusion.


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It is the climactic scene. Dorothy and her friends stand before the great Wizard of Oz. Toto wanders off and yanks back a curtain to reveal a man busy manipulating levers. Whistles and smoke bombs go off, and the great Oz thunders: “Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!” The Great Oz has spoken!

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The federal government, the military and the Library of Congress have all ordered those under their power not to look at the material published on the WikiLeaks website because it is illegal and looking would make them criminals. Meanwhile, Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, is still jailed in Britain because his condom allegedly “malfunctioned” while having sex in Sweden with a woman with shady connections to anti-Castro Cubans and US intelligence.
This raises a very real question: How is the US approach to WikiLeaks any different from the tyrannical Chinese government’s crack down on websites publishing things Chinese leaders fear and want to control?