Don't shoot messenger for revealing uncomfortable truths

The Australian ^ | 12/7/10 | Julian Assange

[SmithL]

IN 1958 a young Rupert Murdoch, then owner and editor of Adelaide's The News, wrote: "In the race between secrecy and truth, it seems inevitable that truth will always win."

His observation perhaps reflected his father Keith Murdoch's expose that Australian troops were being needlessly sacrificed by incompetent British commanders on the shores of Gallipoli. The British tried to shut him up but Keith Murdoch would not be silenced and his efforts led to the termination of the disastrous Gallipoli campaign.

Nearly a century later, WikiLeaks is also fearlessly publishing facts that need to be made public.

I grew up in a Queensland country town where people spoke their minds bluntly. They distrusted big government as something that could be corrupted if not watched carefully. The dark days of corruption in the Queensland government before the Fitzgerald inquiry are testimony to what happens when the politicians gag the media from reporting the truth.

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These things have stayed with me. WikiLeaks was created around these core values. The idea, conceived in Australia, was to use internet technologies in new ways to report the truth.

WikiLeaks coined a new type of journalism: scientific journalism. We work with other media outlets to bring people the news, but also to prove it is true. Scientific journalism allows you to read a news story, then to click online to see the original document it is based on. That way you can judge for yourself: Is the story true? Did the journalist report it accurately?

Democratic societies need a strong media and WikiLeaks is part of that media. The media helps keep government honest. WikiLeaks has revealed some hard truths about the Iraq and Afghan wars, and broken stories...

[Fundamentally Fair]

There's something about the 2004 members...

[LomanBill]

[For me, it's not about who leaked it, it's about it being leaked to him.]

 

It's a symptom of a society that has been subverted and demoralized.

 

The simple Truth the MSM (and others) are ignoring - is that a homosexual private got PO'd and leaked information because he doesn't like DADT. 

 

And now he/she/it is a big hero to the miscreants in Berkely who he/she/it obviously has more in common with than those who serve in the military because they love this country instead of conspiring to destroy it.

 

The Weather Underground would have loved to have an operative like Bradley Manning.  How did he/she/it get into the Pentagon?

 

It's not a simple matter of technological security; it's a question of how to undo 50 years of subversive indoctrination that gave military and political power to miscreants who care more about achieving the goals of Homosexual activism, than they do about securing this Republic.

 

History has seen this before:

 

"pre-World War II Germany and its quest for reviving and imitating a Hellenistic-paganistic idea of homo-eroticism and militarism."

 

Is it 1933 yet, again?

 

 

[Arrowhead1952]

I usually go by their posting history. Someone who hasn’t posted since signing up in 2004, 2006, or 2008 and then starts on a single subject like immigration, is always suspect.

[LomanBill]

[I’m just stunned how many are falling for the media’s corruption]

 

Imagine what Goebbels and Co. could have done with HD 5.1 digital surround in the living rooms of the sheeple...

 

And here we are.

 

 

 

[Fundamentally Fair]

I usually go by their posting history.

I do too. I just find an inordinate amount of trollish behavior from members with 2004 sign up dates.