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In reply to the discussion: Julian Assange and Wikileaks Campaign Directly Against Obama! [View all]struggle4progress
(118,281 posts)will learn that his asserted theory is that government is by nature a criminal conspiracy and that he regards information releases as organization-smashing exercises, which undermine communication within government: so his expressed view seems to be an adolescent libertarian stance, closely related to anarchism, heavily flavored with the notion that he Julian should be able to do whatever he wants
Whether his actual views coincide with the views he sometimes expresses, is a different question. Since Wikileaks has been an extraordinarily secretive organization, it is difficult to determine what information has actually come to the organization and what use has been made of it. But the image of Assange's friend "Israel Shamir" carting unredacted Cablegate revelations to the dictator Lukashenko in Belarus should produce at least a moment of suspicion about exactly what is going on