I think he has done us all a service inadvertently perhaps. We now see a part of the range and spectacle the corruption and stink that permeates our own govt. as well as other govts around the world.
Time for some Hercules to clean the Augean stables.
How can we or these so-called “democratic” govts not compare themselves to a dictatorship such as the Iranian one, or most other govts in the ME, or any other dictatorship around the world, where the media exercises censorship, or is conveniently silent (or is silenced), in order to be politically correct, umm ... ‘politically sensitive’ ? Be it self regulation or shall we say self censorship ?
I understand there can be a fine line between ‘anarchy & democracy’. But, despite all the calls from “responsible” & prominent political & otherwise figures for Assange’s arrest & yes even ‘elimination’ (was it assassination ?), these ‘responsible’ world leaders still can not tell us what Assange did so illegally ? Except that his actions were ‘irresponsible’..
After all, Assange wasn’t the one who wrote the content of the communication pieces wikileaks has, so far, published - govt official & politicians did. Nor was he, to my knowledge, the one who disclosed the information in the first place. Did he not simply publish the info he was sent by others ?
We are constantly told that we live in a democratic society, where, obviously, one needs to toe the “official” BS approved by our ‘democratically [s]elected govts’.
For those who don’t know, the punishment for publishing any info that is not permitted by govts in the ME dictatorship such as Iran can result in the same action (reaction) as we’ve had from so-called Western, Democratic govts. A main difference, I can think of for now, is that the Iranian govt, for example, won’t let it linger on & won’t have a public debate about it ... they would nip it in the bud.
“I think he has done us all a service inadvertently perhaps.”
I can see that. I can see, too, that he’s an irresponsible moron that’s probably responsible for some deaths that won’t be documented enough to end up in wikileaks someday. That should account for the venom and vitriol. Outside of that, right, he’s a somewhat likeable moron.
there is a part of me that is with ya’ll:
it pisses me off that the media cared not one whit when he exposed Bush torture and our paid informers-pols-agents in Iraq and Afghanistan but when he exposed Obama and Hillary then they get in a dander
and...what in the hell is a rape being charged for not wearing a condom?
good lord...is that the product of Nazi feminism in Scandinavia now