Wikileaks is reliable

In personal opinion I think Wikileaks is reliable. Of course there might be some mistakes on the website and nothing is proven until lawyers and courts decide, as this is our society’s standard for the what is real. However, basically they put information on the Internet that pretty powerful. Read on as to why I think so and maybe you should trust them more than your government.

I believe in transparency in government. I live in a post communist country where government was all secret and always justified their actions as protecting their army or police or their citizens. This was not true. It was always a Jason Bourne type convert action that the government did not want people to know about. Then when they were discovered some smooth talking general would come on and talk about it was to protect people or army that we kept this secret.

Does this sound like cloak and dagger a communist government? Think again. In the USA, there are abuses of power. I think Wikileaks was right in publishing the documents it did regarding the Afghan war.

What is good? I think the truth is a good place to start. Regarding Wikileaks reliability, what is reliable? I think people who take risks to expose the truth can be trusted more than those who try to hide the truth. What do you think?

Examples of what Wikileaks exposed

  • War crimes – For example, there is evidence of war crimes such as a US assassination team making a mistake and killing seven innocent children. How is keeping this secret jeopardizing people? If anything if it is public it will help prevent things like this in the future. The whistle-blower Assanger wants you to read the documents and see for yourself if  this recent leak has 1000s criminal events by the military. Is this what the the military is defending as a security risk?
  • Helping the enemy – What about the connection between Pakistan and the Taliban. The US gives a lot of money to Pakistan and they help the other side. To me this sounds similar to when the US helped Iraq and Saddam? The USA plays these Machiavellian imperial politics and yet we are a democracy. A democracy which George Washington the founder of our country, warned us against overseas involvement and abuses of past governments. If anything this information brought to light, in the open is important to protect American lives.

Wikileaks’ Julian Assange has courage

The US government is calling Wikileaks’ founder Julian Assange irresponsible. Why? Because they are being exposed. I think Julian Assange has courage and I hope it inspires other people to do the same, that is expose the truth. How can the truth be harmful? This is old information and not tactical information. It is simply politically dangerous to the people who are abusing power by keeping the truth from their citizens.

Assange is under surveillance by police, CIA ,foreign government pretty much anyone with a secret to hide. I know the Chinese do not like him. Iceland has offered him asylum. He runs his server in Sweden on PRQ. Sweden has pretty liberal laws regarding the Internet.

I recommend people look at these documents themselves by visiting the Wikileaks website: Wikileaks.org.

Wikileaks is good and reliable:

  • The truth is always good.
  • Governments in the past from kings, dictators and communists kept things secret because they had something to hide from the good citizens of their country.
  • When people are aware of the truth they are empowered to change, this is a mission of Wiki leaks, to bring transparency to government.
  • Contrary to what the inner circle of politicians and old generals says, that is these secrets are harmful if people know about them, the opposite is true. That is in the long-run the truth will be good for governments and in the long-run are helpful. Wikileaks is good.

Is Wikileaks bad? I think not. Wikileaks is good and I think reliable. It brings transparency to the next level, hopefully our children will have a better future which is more open.  Consider Thomas Jefferson: ‘The government that governs least governs best’.

I think organizations like Wikileaks, which is committed to the truth can be trusted more than governments who try to hide the truth. I would have one caveat, that being removing or not publishing names of people whose lives could be endangered for helping the USA in the war.

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