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- Steve, your interview was filled with softball questions, but Julian passed it with flying colors! Aussie colors, that is! He remained true to himself, which is a person who wants to expose the hidden under-workings of governments (ALL governments) to the light of day. Like he stated in the interview, to paraphrase Julian: Wiki-leaks exposes the raw data/information and allow others to draw their own conclusions. The American public needs more people like Julian to expose not only our federal & state governments, but also the large international corporations who are creating a plutocracy in America.
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- Voice,
We have had freedom of speech for quite awhile and it has not restrained governments and corporations from running amok.
This guy is using a shock mechanism to achieve what the 'fourth estate' has failed to do. He's not breaking the law, people who break the law as conscientious objectors come to him.
Yes, some people feel he is reckless and its costing lives. But its alot LESS than the body count produced by rogue governments and businesses.
The irony is he is more in line with the founding fathers goals, just in a Shock Jock way, than the tea-inclined people who think he's a terrorist.
Freedom of speech and freedom of press are a certainty. Sadly, the educational knowledge among the observing gallery to comprehend what's before them is alot less certain.
I can't wait to see what banking industry data they have. The bankers are the real terrorists. - Reply to this comment
- Anyone who has gone to the wikileaks site, and read the papers for themselves, would not call Mr. Assange a criminal or terrorist. Only the uninformed who are happy to go along repeating what biased news reporters, and embarrassed corrupt governments say. There needs to be more people in the world who are not afraid to stand up to corruption, maybe the world wouldn't be in such a mess then. We need more people like Julian Assange and John Perkins. More people willing to find out the truth for themselves are also needed unfortunately. Stand Strong Mr. Assange.
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- If the USA can't withstand the release of the truths found within it, then they don't deserve to. We are a strong nation with freedom and liberty as our basic foundation. What we can't survive is the lack of transparency and living in fear and we have past examples.
Senator Joe McCarthy and J. Edgar Hoover were able to do horrible things based on secrecy and threats --- that is, they put themselves above the law and the public fell for it ... for awhile ... and our nation suffered. But when the truth came out we regained our strengths. What Assange is doing represents a favor to us -- for we must know the truth in order to be free. It's no loss that a bunch of bureaucrats have to suffer embarrassment and run for cover ... not when it comes to liberty and freedom.
Remember, Assange is only publishing information that exists within our government, of which we were unaware. Keep your eyes on the ones who complain the loudest, for they are the ones with much to hide and live in fear of exposure.
A big batch of info was exposed in November 2010 -- we haven't shown any signs of collapse yet (but we sure did a few years ago thru actions of big banks in this country!) And that brings up the fear our big banks are showing with the possibility of Assange releasing some inside info from said banks. I'll bet it isn't good -- for the banks. And I'll bet we'll be a lot better off for knowing it. - Reply to this comment
- I don't know that Julian Assange is the mad man that this, and many other countries want to betray him as. Could he have done things differently, I don't know; did he put soldiers in harms way? Yes! Has he possibly put moles in certain countries in danger? Possibly. However, some of the information that he's leaked has be invaluable! The whispers of why the Lockerbie hijacker was released were confirmed through Wikileaks, as well as proof that journalists had been killed by drones, albeit by accident, were proven. So, whether people approve of him or not, Mr. Assange is needed or a necessary (evil?), because who knows what so many governments are doing under the guise of national/state/world security, and not all of it legal or necessary. For releasing that information, I thank Mr. Assange.
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- Steve Croft is an investigative reporter for 60 minutes. I thought Steve was more terse than he should have been but for the writer above to assume Assange does what he does "for the money" is an uneducated statement. He's a publisher and if he can find a way to make a living publishing this stuff, then he's no different than any other publisher. It's been said that Assange's WikiLeaks is doing what our crappy media has forgotten to do in the first place.
What's laughable is that he probably knows more about John Adams and James Madison than any other American. The only political personalities we seem to be able to identify have the fattest wallets and draw cross-hairs on maps where politicians are going to be located.
Dear reader, who are John Adams and James Madison? - Reply to this comment
- you miss the forewst for the trees roc. You cast aspersions at the nessenger and ignore the message. You can't tivialize the corruption that his organization exposes by accusing him of what you consuder immoral (is making a living immoral?). You're like the policeman who stops a fire engine on the way to put out a house fire because the fire truck,s driver failed to use a turn signal. Thank God for Assange and his network of whistle blowers!
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- here here Assange. There is a reason why we have the first amendment. I thought he was very eloquent in the interview. We dont all have to be PC.
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- The interview was pretty good. I believe in the freedom of speech in all cases because if I say "free speech" if its this...and "no free speech" if its that, then I would be a hypocrite. Freedom of speech will offend people, it may cause violence or it may create enemies....or it may create common ground among some and lead to peace, either way its the American way.
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- Thank you Steve Croft for putting a human face on Julian Assange. The majority of the US media to date has demonized him in ways that questions their validity and for whom they publish, rather than being a an active instrument of a democracy providing information to the masses. Thank you again.
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