WHY TOLERATE WIKILEAK'S ASSANGE?
December 1st 2010 22:36
I don’t know what his reasons are for doing what he is doing, but I think this Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange, despite the awards Wikileaks received, is an abomination to the publishing world.
Awards received do not make their recipients perfect.
I do believe in the power of the written words, as many of us do, but I think he is abusing them.
He doesn’t seem to know the meaning of the word RESPONSIBILITY.
Maybe he means well, but what does he expect to achieve by dumping all those sensitive diplomatic communications for the world to see?
He could have chosen any number of information that he thinks needed exposing to the world and the other well meaning people would have saluted him. But he either doesn’t have the perspicacity to choose or he is not capable of caring for anything at all, thus he had to take the devil may care attitude.
I don’t think this guy deserves the power that he has himself.
The mere fact that respectable newspapers the world over picked up stories from his leaks didn’t mean he did the right thing. Many of those newspapers would not think of writing those stories if they have not yet been made public.
Respectable newspapers/publications manned by respectable editors make respectable decisions.
People do make disparaging remarks once in a while, in jest, or maybe out of exasperation, even against their own loved ones, but that doesn’t necessarily mean anything to those who made them. Bring that out in the open for everybody to see and even if they don’t mean it, those remarks begin to have a meaning of their own that give reason to the subjects of the remarks to hate the source of those remarks.
Did this wikileak guy want to be known as the person who turned the whole world against itself?
Or did he just want to leak on everyone in public?
What about the fate of those whose lives he is putting in danger because of what he is doing?
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Comment by British Bulldog
I think Assange is a hero becuase he reveals the truth in a world where we are told lies.
Just reflect on the Iraq War claimed to be correct becuase of the existence of weapons of mass destruction there when there weren't any.
The boss of the CIA Intelligence agency George Tennant had to resign as did Secretary of State Colin Powell and Tony Blair PM of the UK was severely embarrased as well. George Bush is quoted as saying the absence of WMD caused him sleepless nights. Tens of thousands of dead Iraqi's are in permanent sleep, A UK weapons inspector called to a UK public enquiry on the subject wes put under so much pressure by government to lie that he comitted suicide. This was a seriuos fraud committed on the whole world
This all shows the value of 'whistle blowers'. If you've little to hide, you've little to fear. Similarly with Enron and the failure for the FBI and CIA to share information before 9/11. you need people to stand up and be counted to reveal the truth.
Next month he's scheduled to tell us about the bad things a large US bank have done and suddenly the US want to arrest him. Big surprise!
However much he may be a dubious figure personally, my judgment is that he provides a great service to the world by revealing the evil done in the name of legimitate politics and business and so protects voters, consumers and shareholders alike by the sharing of information.
Comment by Market Newbie
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If Assange has not just so carelessly dumped all those documents and chose the ones he will publish, no matter how explosive they may prove to be, I will call him a hero myself. But the problem with all those diplomatic documents were not the lies - the problem with them are the truths. There may be too much truths in them that put lives in danger.
To view my concern from another perspective, consider the manpower and resources that the rescue workers put into saving a life - one life - like in the case of that teenager who wanted to make a world record by being the youngest to sail round the world who was lost at sea and saved by the Australians. That was just one life, and they have to spend so much and risk the lives of so many others to save her. Now, how many lives is Assange putting into danger by what he did when he could have just chosen his stories and significantly reduce the possible damage?
This was already said many times before, the pen is powerful, power should come with equal amount of responsibility.