Do you thank god for Bradley Manning, too?
I can see that Snowden would garner some thanks because he was the one who blew open the NSA spying scheme. Assange did no such thing.
I hope you don’t choke on your gratitude for Assange when he gets a hold of some Trump admin emails or stolen documents.
If Trump engages in the crap that Bush and Obama and Hillary did, and keeps it secret, why yes I do indeed hope he gets exposed.
Today secrecy is the enemy. They aren’t classifying military secrets like WWII.
Trump misunderstand the American people if he thinks we put him in to run a secret government. I don’t think he believes that.
Today, secrecy is used as a wide spread blanket to keep the citizenry from exercising educated control over the US Government as they work diligently against the interests if the American people. Be a willing subject if you please. I prefer citizen.
Assange published Snowden releases. The secret government must be unmasked. Widespread Government secrecy like we see today is not the mark of a free people.
That is the mark of the British, of the Nazis, of the various communist governments.
Secrecy today is designed to let them do things we would not approve of, not to keep legitimate military secrets like the top speed of the latest missile or something.
It is designed to allow the CIA and State to run an operation in Benghazi to smuggle Manpads and weapons to ISIS and AL Qeida.
They know the American people would say “wait, why are we arming the gang that brought us 9/11?” and “why have we started helping the enemy in the WOT?”. We might ask who is paying for it and they don’t want to tell us the Saudis.
Obama loved it when he made his Iran deal giving them more cash than Israel has received in its entire history.
Obama and the GOP loved it when they were pushing for TPP to be passed but the document was classified and could not be released.
Yes, a low that would profoundly affect America was deliberately hidden from we the people.
So yes, thank God for Assange and WikiLeaks.