<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ceejayoz</author><text>Politicians overreacting hardly needs an ulterior motive of super-secret documents. Just try flying in an airplane if you want an example...</text><parent_chain><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>Which makes me wonder what is in the leaks that we haven&apos;t seen yet. After all if highly placed officials are getting their panties in a twist based on what we&apos;ve seen so far then they are over-reacting to put it mildly.&lt;p&gt;Time will tell. Some of the responses from politicians are beyond the pale and what bugs me more is that nobody even thinks of calling them to account over this, or so much as distancing themselves from these remarks.</text></item><item><author>ErrantX</author><text>I&apos;m not Assange&apos;s biggest fan (r.e. how he controls Wikileaks) but some of the nonsense coming from the US establishment (and elsehwere) is appalling.&lt;p&gt;It probably even vindicates what Wikileaks stands for.&lt;p&gt;This is one of those cases where damage limitation is the sane and sensible response; they&apos;ve lost those cables, we are going to see them. Deal with it. They need perspective; in the grand scheme of things it is highly unlikely to be &quot;the end of the world&quot;. And if it uncovers corruption and naughtiness then all the better.&lt;p&gt;Hounding Assange and Wikileaks only ends up making them look guilty. Which is stupid, especially as there is nothing (so far) hugely corrupt or terrible in the leaks!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Don&apos;t shoot the messenger for telling the truth</title><url>http://www.theaustralian.com.au/in-depth/wikileaks/dont-shoot-messenger-for-revealing-uncomfortable-truths/story-fn775xjq-1225967241332</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ErrantX</author><text>There is that. On the other hand it could be that they just can&apos;t see themselves reacting to it other way, and are just too short sighted.&lt;p&gt;I feel that if anything explosive was to come then Assange would have hinted at it by now - he has done in the past.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>Which makes me wonder what is in the leaks that we haven&apos;t seen yet. After all if highly placed officials are getting their panties in a twist based on what we&apos;ve seen so far then they are over-reacting to put it mildly.&lt;p&gt;Time will tell. Some of the responses from politicians are beyond the pale and what bugs me more is that nobody even thinks of calling them to account over this, or so much as distancing themselves from these remarks.</text></item><item><author>ErrantX</author><text>I&apos;m not Assange&apos;s biggest fan (r.e. how he controls Wikileaks) but some of the nonsense coming from the US establishment (and elsehwere) is appalling.&lt;p&gt;It probably even vindicates what Wikileaks stands for.&lt;p&gt;This is one of those cases where damage limitation is the sane and sensible response; they&apos;ve lost those cables, we are going to see them. Deal with it. They need perspective; in the grand scheme of things it is highly unlikely to be &quot;the end of the world&quot;. And if it uncovers corruption and naughtiness then all the better.&lt;p&gt;Hounding Assange and Wikileaks only ends up making them look guilty. Which is stupid, especially as there is nothing (so far) hugely corrupt or terrible in the leaks!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Don&apos;t shoot the messenger for telling the truth</title><url>http://www.theaustralian.com.au/in-depth/wikileaks/dont-shoot-messenger-for-revealing-uncomfortable-truths/story-fn775xjq-1225967241332</url></story>