You go! The bitter truth may not set us free (here in the opening stages of the final meltdown) but it is a lot more satisfying than a steady diet of saccharine lies.

(Snagglepuss says...)
Heavenths to murgatroid! We can't let people go around justh telling the truth about how evil we are -- it would mean the end of civilization ath we know it!

And that's supposed to be a bad thing?
Used to be this is what newspapers did before they were bought up by the corporate and war-mongering fascists.

I like the color of Assange's hair it reminds me of waving wheat -- or sunlight. You go, Little Prince! And let those sheep out of the box.

May the force be with him.

Joe

A true hero, along with the hundreds also mentioned.

...maybe he should be given, oh that award president's give out, that highest of high awards, some sort of medal of freedom or whatever it is...hero's are hard to find but he's one of mine, how bout you?...

I am encouraged to see Julian Assange aligned with Daniel Ellsberg.

I still remember The Pentagon Papers.

The Pentagon's just pissed because the truth is finally coming to light about the fabrication of having to go to war with other countries.

Instead of 'secrets', people will find out they've been pawns for the corporate war machines since day one...btw, I just saw State of Play last night on dvd, so I'm a bit biased right now. lol

I'll play devil's advocate. I'm sure some cables may deal with negotiating strategies and or personal feelings about leaders and their administrations. These should generally not be published. Cables including evil intent or illegal activity should be published.

Thanks, Julian. Now go under and stay under, at least for now. You've done your piece, try to stay safe.

Let's all thank Adriano Lamo for turning in Manning. What a courageous guy. I doubt if Asperger's syndrome has any affect on being a rat.

Then again, USA spooks were out for revenge after Julian showed the world how our gunships operate in Iraq and elsewhere. I hope Julian succeeds in publishing many (2600) articles - Amerika's bankers, the IMF, Diego Garcia, Honduras, Georgia, Afghan drone attacks, Israel & Gaza, etc.

We really need a better USAian government, the world is sick of American Exceptionalism & its dirty secrets. However, I fear for Julian - they will try to let him "have an accident".

Yes, quite a dude, mensch, melancholy angel and messenger, possible sacrificial lamb, may he live a long life and inspire others to act. We need as much of this sort of revelatory guerrilla journalism as possible.

Webwalk says "the bitter truth may not set us free"
--but then again it may stir us to move, and what freedom may come of that, we alone can guess.

My guess, I hope not, is that he and his bones have already been given one of the CIA acid baths and I do not mean lysergic.

I love that there is a person of this caliber, this courageous bent to help us see...
But, ya know, there has been a lot of good info out there. But most won't read... don't read... and much of it is not on TV so or if it is it is twisted into something that doesn't seem so bad... I just hope that all his efforts are actually made use of, are actually paid attention to and are the straw that breaks the camels back as far as our ridiculous pursuit of our drug... oil, and a bunch of other terrible habits, like collective ego mania, imperialism, power mongering, oh and did I mention, laziness. Yes. We all don't like to get our hands dirty and so want all the luxuries that oil can buy and make, just so we can live the life of ease. No sticking your hands in the ground to grow your own food. No, mucking out some horse stall, or picking a horses foot, to keep his/her frog healthy. By God, we are an educated people and we have white collar jobs, lots of them, and we are educated. We come up with all the answers to cure things, diseases caused by our oh, well our modern...yeah....

Admirable. Perhaps we can all assist. I recall in the 1990s when the Mexican government was looking for Subcommandante Marcos of the Zapatista rebellion, Mexicans of all stripes began wearing pins saying "we are all Marcos". Pepper emails with references to Julian Assange and Wikileaks, as in, "Hey, I just saw Julian Assange of Wikileaks in Anchorage, Alaska" enough times to confuse their data gathering efforts. Of course, send your email recipients this article (there's a nice button provided at the top) so they get your gist and can incorporate the tactic themselves. As Wendell Berry writes:

As soon as the generals and the politicos
can predict the motions of your mind,
lose it. Leave it as a sign
to mark the false trail, the way
you didn't go. Be like the fox
who makes more tracks than necessary,
some in the wrong direction.

Perhaps we can make some helpful extra tracks?

Where is the TRANSPARENCY we were promised? What is being perpetrated in our name?

I wish him well.

Julian....YOU ARE MY HERO!!! You and Daniel Ellsberg that is!! Be safe courageous one and MAY THE FORCE (OF LOVE) BE WITH YOU!!!

I wonder if the country he happens to be hiding in will object when a Predator or Global Hawk drone unleashes a Hellfire anti-tank missile against the building he is in... and how the US MSM will spin the resulting multiple civilian deaths.

Keep your head low Julian. Don't use cell phones. Pay cash.

Go, Julian!

Yesterday, verizon.net took "forever" to load wikileaks. Anyone else having similar experiences?

God keep you safe, Julian. And God give us all such courage.

As Derrick Jensen has said, all us ranting radicals are like flies- merely a background annoyance if we are noticed at all. Once the Powers That Be realize someone is going to do something that ACTUALLY CHANGES things, they are on the hit list. The trick is going to be for lots and lots of Julians and others to drag the capitalist/militarist power structure down. There has to be so many they don't know who to go after...

"drawing (the) dragons out of the cave."

Assange not only brings to light the injustices of those in power, he causes those same forces to react, abandoning--if only temporarily--their pretense to civic morality, exposing their true face hidden behind a mask of bureaucracy and banality.

This is what happens when someone challenges power--for real.

Bring America Back !!!!

***Not sufficient to just mention Daniel Ellsberg when looking at states secret violations or whistleblowing classified info or data.

***The new standard of defense just has to be the Justice Dept failure to prosecute Karl Rove, and Prince Dick Cheney for the treasonous blowing of cover of Valerie Plame--a verified CIA Agent on a
verified lawful mission. Volumes of evidence show that Prosecutor Fitzpatrick had Rove and Cheney dead to rights on leaking Plames' identity and cover !

***Instead, Fitzpatrick could only come up with one minor count of perjury, to which their skinny lizzard assistant fell on the sword ! Scooter Libby !
===For certain, Fall Guy Libby , although convicted, would not be destined to serve even one day of his sentence, and a Bush commutation of his sentence assured Libby would not spill the real 'beans' on who really outted Plame.

***Just contrast that folly to Patrick Fitzgerald's current public prosecution of former Illinois Gov Rod Blagozevitch==As we speak that Democrats' gallows is being prepared by Neocon Repubby Fitzpatrick !
Fitzpatrick loves his TV facetime excoriating Blagozavitch, and convicting him in the Media !

***In John Dean's book: 'Worse than Watergate', Dean states the Plame leak by Cheney, Bush, and Rove was one of the dirtiest political tricks he had ever seen.
I would add that it surely ranks right up there with NIxon's breaking into Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist' office and files to dig dirt on Daniel !

MASTERS OF WAR
Bob Dylan

Come you masters of war
You that build all the guns
You that build the death planes
You that build all the bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks.

You that never done nothin'
But build to destroy
You play with my world
Like it's your little toy
You put a gun in my hand
And you hide from my eyes
And you turn and run farther
When the fast bullets fly.

Like Judas of old
You lie and deceive
A world war can be won
You want me to believe
But I see through your eyes
And I see through your brain
Like I see through the water
That runs down my drain.

You fasten all the triggers
For the others to fire
Then you set back and watch
When the death count gets higher
You hide in your mansion'
As young people's blood
Flows out of their bodies
And is buried in the mud.

You've thrown the worst fear
That can ever be hurled
Fear to bring children
Into the world
For threatening my baby
Unborn and unnamed
You ain't worth the blood
That runs in your veins.

How much do I know
To talk out of turn
You might say that I'm young
You might say I'm unlearned
But there's one thing I know
Though I'm younger than you
That even Jesus would never
Forgive what you do.

Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul.

And I hope that you die
And your death'll come soon
I will follow your casket
In the pale afternoon
And I'll watch while you're lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I'll stand over your grave
'Til I'm sure that you're dead.

Thank you, Julian Assange. It was a delight to read all the CD posts in support of you and your work. Be safe and free, peace is possible when courage is contagious.

Wow! Keats must have had Julian in mind, instead of that "Grecian Urn."

" Beauty is truth, truth beauty,--that is all

Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."

Oh, I think I saw him at Disneyland; he's in charge of "Mr. Toad's WILD RIDE."
Gosh, was that in Florida or California? Japan?

The USA has been built on the blood of innocents, deceit, plunder, and lies. It cannot stand to be subjected to the truth of its evil, heartless misdeeds in its quest for power and control, for the very exposition of such may lead to the overthrow of its corrupt government and its drone-like military accomplices.
May the Spirit Guides keep Julian Assange protected and safe, as he is the light-bearer that exposes the truth for all to see. It is the revealing of this truth that threatens to set the American people free from the cloaked tyranny they live under.

In obscurity the state will torture and kill whistleblowers. They are already holding organizers in solitary confinement to break and silence them.

Nothing in recent American history suggests the possibility of a fair trial for Assange or for Bradley Manning, his accused informant.

The tactics of interrupting night and day have already filtered down to at least part of the California prison system for use with prisoners on mundane drug and DUI charges, though in California this may relate as much to the severe overcrowding of prisons as to other motives.

The best thing we can give Julian Assange and Bradley Manning now is publicity -- about everything but a realistic sense of where Assange might be.

The longer Assange can hold out, the better the chance for his case to enter the public mind and, eventually, even corporate media. The more media attention Assange and Bradley get, the more motive exists for the government to make a show of treating them humanely.

I should think some letters to news outlets who have not covered the story would be in order.

Have you ever noticed that when a whistle blower exposes some government stupidity, cupidity, or just plain lawbreaking, the government and the media expend much effort and legislation, not to remedy the error or problem exposed, but to catch the person that blew the whistle.

(Psst, he just left the shopping mall in Tacoma, don't tell anyone)

Bringing the "dark" into the light will always be a heroic and perilous act. But a duty that is taken on by the yearning and the need of a just system.