Knowing what Daniel Ellsberg knew I would have simply quit my job and just warn others with as little information as possible so that they wouldn’t get me in trouble like Ellsberg. I wouldn’t blow the whistle simply because I was part of it and chose such a job that requires me to keep secrets and work with the government. Everyone at this point knows how much the government officials and presidents lie about their intentions. No matter how inhumane and morally questioning it is, it’s still a very secretiative job that has confidential government files that shouldn’t be released to the news and press.
I know Ellsberg didn’t just randomly release the files to the press one day, this was planned and talked about. In a world where people believe that they have to trust the government, only radicals and people who want to be liberated want the truth. So people like Ellesberg do very risky things for those people. It seems reckless and I know you knew you’d go to jail but, Ellsberg you could have just left your job at the Pentagon and become a part of helping volunteering at organizations or have gotten another job that fulfilled what you believed was right. What I saw in the documentary is that working with secrets and the government, you learn so much that as a result you would start to see the world differently. You were part of a world where you knew every secret about the government and what they would hide from the public, whether it’s for war reasons or to keep the public “calm” so there’s less protest then there should be. My question is why did you start with the Vietnam war, was it because you were wronged and highly invested in the war’s ending?
With what history has already shown was that it wasnt that shocking that the Vietnam war was started by the U.S. What I still don’t understand is how army’s and soldiers choose to fight for the government. If they already know Vietnam was just a poorer country, poorer than countries like China, and the U.S. my question for Ellsberg would be why does the government play with innocent lives of soldiers and foriegn armies? Why do they want to militarize and then criminalize countries like Vietnam? Many of us don’t side with the government, war for the government is just a tool to seem better than the other country. Having a war doesn’t fix any of our problems but adds further tension and damage to a country’s relation with one another. Ellsberg was part of the army but it’s hard to understand how it can be so normal to fight “for our country” when it wasn’t as simple as done.
I feel like to this day the most dangerous thing a person can do is trust the government. There’s too much that they know that the public doesn’t know. Some reasons make sense, as to why they hide things and keep so many secrets. One reason to hide such things from the public could be that people aren’t ready to believe this crazy world. Sometimes things come out of Twitter now and it’s hard to process. There’s this one rumor about Neil Armstrong faking a landing on the moon and I still don’t know if it is safe to say that it’s true or not. I tend to always question myself and ask did Neil Armstrong really fake the moon landing? Another recently released information was about having found another dimension that says people live old to young. I still don’t know if that information is real or if I’m just reading it from a weird part of the internet.
I would side with the idea that the press shouldnt be releasing such secrets about the government. It’s very dangerous especially today. So to keep the peace I would recommend they don’t, though if it were to happen again I would gladly read what the press and the news articles have to say. Was Daniel Ellsberg the first to release information on government secrets? In the documentary it was said that there was news or rumors on government secrets already. Ellsberg’s acquaintance knew not to trust the government and how they did many immoral things, Daniel Ellsberg was just someone who gave the radicals and activists more evidence. I don’t think exposing how the Vietnam war was a bad decision like Daniel Ellsberg says on the NPR interview because the people that weren’t drafted knew that the Vietnam war was unnecessary violence. To the Pentagon, Daniel Ellsberg is the most dangerous man. The Pentagon is very secretive and should be picker in order to prevent from hiring people like Daniel especially when he’s surrounded by others who believe that speaking up against what is wrong is right. It was Nixon who said that Daneil Ellsberg was a dangerous man. So when such questions are asked, people need to remind themselves that things aren’t that simple. Activists and people who want more equal power as the president and government would do the same thing Daniel Ellsberg did. In the news one small scream or riot and people are easily criminalized, so it’s not that hard to refrain myself from believing what the government says, calling Ellsberg a dangerous man because he just wanted everyone to know that they shouldn’t fully trust the government.
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