You can’t conduct democracy in secret.
We should be thanking Julian Assange, but instead we act like soap-opera protagonists where everyone has a secret past that (s)he will fight to the death to keep in the closet. We are prepared to accept all sorts of dirty tricks to keep everything hush-hush.
The dirty trick of the day is to accuse Assange of sexual misconduct. Good grief! They have tried this one before, for example with Al Gore, who was accused of the same offence to neutralize his campaigning for the environment and later acquitted. Luckily Gore has not lost his authoritativeness as one of our moral voices.
Assange was accused of sexual misconduct by Swedish prosecutors as he was seeking legal protection for his web site in Sweden. As we have seen, it’s an old trick. A prosecutor issued an arrest warrant for him late Friday. Dean Takahashi comments, “Then, a day later, a higher-ranking prosecutor rescinded the warrant, saying there were no grounds to suspect Assange of rape. The prosecutor who took over the case yesterday had more information and that was why the earlier prosecutor was over-ruled, according to a spokeswoman for the Swedish Prosecution Authority. “
Now, in addition Wikileaks informs us that Amazon will no longer host their page.
More democracy.
I suppose Assange knew the risks when he started all this, just like soldiers know what may happen to them. That’s why more people with troubled consciences and awareness don’t blow their whistles. But Obama and Hillary were once the people who said they would save democracy. How they are deceiving us now! Both by working in secret and striking out at the whistle blowers.
GW Bush must be so proud of them. Who among us are outraged?
