December 5, 2010
-
Julian Assange - Critical Thinking
This is directed at those people who believe the charges behind Julian. Also, that the information released by Wikileaks is the equivalent of personal information:
Good on you for sticking up for your personal confidential information. The problem here is this is not personal information. This is governmental information, which is information that should be transparent in the first place. Information that would help people make decisions on whether they want to keep their government in play.
As for the rape charges, if you follow the news from the time the charges were made to now, you will see that the information currently being fed to the public is twisted from the original facts of the case. Both women have agreed that the intercourse was consensual, as such, there is no case. These charges are mocked up in order for a super power to get their hands on Julian. They are trying to defeat his credibility by smearing his name.
Wikileaks is a group organization. Do you truly believe that the people behind the site would not list their own founder as a rapist if he was such? Julian is a figure head for the site. Someone for people to say "Hey, this guy is wikileaks!" But the truth is, the site is run by multiple different parties, all of which are separate from Julian. Yes Julian has a say in the site, but if he were a rapist, and worse, the people running the site would soon back down and refuse to do anymore. Furthermore, they may even denounce the site and work towards creating a new one without Julian's name attached to it.
Governmental information should not be protected. A government is put in place by its people for its people. More so for the United States as it is a country founded by the people for the people, written into their very constitution. A people should have the fear of their government, not the other way around.
Information pertaining to one's government should be transparent in so much as it does not get someone killed. Those pundits claiming this information will get someone killed, have not read the leaks, and obviously have something to hide themselves, as this information has not harmed nor killed anyone.
Consequently, the news agencies around the world should focus less on what Julian is being charged with, and more on what he has released into the wild. This information is the point of the matter. Julian being trumped up on false charges is side tracking from the true meaning behind all of this.
Comments (3)
I'm honestly surprised he just didn't turn up dead somewhere... have had a little... accident...
@warweasel - I am too a little bit. But, i think it would seem a bit too obvious at this point. Instead they are going to assassinate his credibility first. Then once no one believes in him, and he has lost his followers they will go in for the true kill. That is, if people do not stand up for their rights and their beliefs. Too bad this day an age everyone is too damn comfortable with the status-quo to do anything about it.
People are thinking and talking about it, that's a good thing, and one of JA's goals from the start of WikiLeaks.