Why I Support Wikileaks And Assange's Rights

Journalism is at its lowest point ever since the Bush administration co-opted it along with their partners in crime, people like Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch. But to have Obama follow in the same footsteps as those of his predecessor, and even go steps further in the acts of preventing the American people from knowing the truth about its government's activities around the world, is an abomination. It's really hard for me to recognize the man in the White House. He doesn't stand for any principals that he ran on, or that the American people overwhelming elected him on.

I stand in support of Mr. Assange and Wikileaks. And, no, I am not stupid enough to equate what Mr. Assange has done with that of Ellsberg for leaking what has become known as The Pentagon Papers. Ellsberg released documents that showed the Johnson/Nixon administrations lies being touted in America and across the world in order to cover their tracks for an unsubstantiated war in Vietnam and elsewhere in that area.

Wikileaks doesn't expose lies so much as it just highlights what our government is doing and what they are refusing to inform the American public they are doing. Obama is not disputing the validity of said documents and their content, he is simply trying to make the leaks criminal by labeling them as somehow exposing security secrets that will put Americans that are engaged in the wars in danger, and will promote more terrorism. Maybe so, maybe not.

Some pertinent parts from the leaks. Like the fact that our government paid for Afghanistan leaders to hold parties where they procured underage boys to dress up as girls, dance for the Afghanistan leaders, and then allow said leaders to rape them.

Or, how about the fact that the Vatican forced the Irish government to grant Vatican officials immunity in their part in the ever ongoing abuse of children by Catholic priests.

Or the fact that big pharma giant Pfizer basically threatened to release damaging information about certain Nigerian leaders in order to force the Nigerian government to drop criminal charges against them for their controversial use of children for clinical trials, and who were harmed by a new antibiotic, Trovan, during a meningitis epidemic of unprecedented scale in Kano in 1996.

These are important things that never see the light of day in American journalism, be it print, television or radio. The corporate conglomerates that own most of the world-wide media have an agenda, and that is to push the agenda of the ruling parties in exchange for printing said parties' propaganda as opposed to reporting the news.

As Glenn Greenwald states:

That's why this cannot-be-killed lie about WikiLeaks' "indiscriminate" dumping of cables has so consumed me. It's not because it would change much if they had done or end up doing that -- it wouldn't -- but because it just so powerfully proves how mindlessly subservient the American establishment media is: willing to repeat over and over completely false claims as long as it pleases the right people -- the same people to whom they claim they are "adversarial watchdogs." It's when they engage in such clear-cut, deliberate propagandizing that their true function -- their real identity -- is thrown into such stark relief.

These so called journalistic outlets calling for Assange to be convicted of treason (that's stupid, since Assange is not an American citizen, dipshits), to calling for his outright murder by assassination, is alarming. And our government's use of the internet to force providers to take down Wikileaks' websites, and putting pressure on other governments to do the same, is not only pathetic, but disturbing in its inensity to try to silence the truth from being put forth to not only just the American people, but to the world.

We are no longer a world where the will of the people have any value. We are a world where the will of the few rich and powerful must be kept as the status quo, even if it means demonizing the true heroes and silencing them, even by death.

Life. Liberty. The pursuit of happiness. These things are no longer available to the people of the world. They have become the province of the rich and powerful.