"Transparent Government Tends to Produce Just Government" (Wikileaks founder)

[katty]

more: http://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/28/wikileaks_founder_julian_assange_transparent_government

WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange: "Transparent Government Tends to Produce Just Government"


We spend the hour with Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, talking about the biggest leak in US history: the release of more than 91,000 classified military records on the war in Afghanistan. As the Pentagon announces it is launching a criminal probe into who leaked the documents, Assange asks what about investigating the "war crimes" revealed in the leaked military records? He also talks about the media, why he isn’t coming to the US anytime soon, and what gives him hope. "What keeps us going is our sources. These are the people, presumably, who are inside these organizations, who want change," Assange says. "They are both heroic figures taking much greater risks than I ever do, and they are pushing and showing that they want change in, in fact, an extremely effective way."

[truedelphi]

1. K & R and for later viewing.

Thank you katty.

[katty]

3. i listened to program in a.m.--great interview

[DJ13]

2. Oh come on

Transparency was a good marketing slogan, nothing more.

[truedelphi]

5. I get yr sarcasm, And For some, transparency is truth, and

Army specialist Manning finds Truth is important enough to spend time in jail for his "crimes" of transparency promotion.

Obama is all, "Can't have this Big Truth - Jail him" and meanwhile Rove and Cheney roam free (under the Obama doctrine of "Don't look back!"$%*@#!).

Did any of us progressives ever think of this happening when we danced in the streets on Nov 4th 2008?

[burnsei sensei]

4. I hope this is the wave of the future.

And I hope it beats back the pathology of secrecy that has infected the world.