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In reply to the discussion: Julian Assange: Hunted by America's Violent Empire [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)thousands of whistle blowers who have been protected by Assange and Wikileaks for six years now. Not one has ever been exposed even by accident, by them, despite threats from governments and Banks and others whose corruption was exposed by those whistle blowers and published by Wikileaks.
Manning was betrayed, by a stooge, not by Wikileaks and from their record of protecting their sources, he certainly was not and would not have been betrayed by them.
What a sad comment to make. It shows signs of desperation when people sink to the level of simply conjuring up baseless smears to attack someone with.
Wikileaks and Assange have received multiple awards for their work, Assange was on the run long before he published anything about the US, due to being threatened by some of the corrupt dictatorships and private institutions exposed by whistleblowers who he and Wikileaks protected.
You don't like Wikileaks, I get it. A lot of people are not for a completely free press especially if it exposes their own governments. Wikileaks eg, was super popular in the US before they released info on the Bush War Crimes and then threatened the Big Banks
But if you want to criticize them, do it with facts. This kind of smear tactic with no basis in fact, only affects the credibility of the author, not the target.
They are extraordinarily courageous. The Chinese dissidents, who we do not hear from as they, like Assange, are in danger because of their work with Wikeleaks, and Assange and the several thousand other members of Wikileaks were committed to do what OUR media has refused to do, publish the truth especially for them, after Tiannemen Sq and they have done that.
They have opened the door for a truly free press and despite the temper tantrums of the Ruling Class in countries who grew comfortable lying to their own people, that door is not going to close no matter what they do to Assange in order to do so.