Julian Assange: Hunted by America's Violent Empire

[sabrina 1]

125. People should agree on a Democratic board about basic human rights.

They should not side with those who protect war criminals and torturers, and airc, we never used to.

Wikileaks has exposed the corruption of several oppressive regimes by providing a safe place for Whistle Blowers to get their stories out to the world, and for that work they have been awarded by several reputable organizations, both journalistic and human rights advocates.

Those Whistle blowers, from Kenya to the ME to China, risked their lives to get that information past the censors in their home countries knowing that if they were exposed they die.

We on the left spent the Bush years slamming our own media for covering for the crimes of the Bush regime.

Then a new kind of media emerged, which did exactly what he said we wanted our media to do, expose the crimes.

Before Wikileaks exposed the Bush war crimes, people thought they were 'pro-American' because they had not in four years, released any material on the US. They responded to those accusations by stating that they had not received anything on the US and if they did, they do what they had always done, verify its authenticity and then publish it.

When Assange revealed he had information on major Banks, all hell broke loose and suddenly the messenger came under attack complete with the CIA revealed plot to 'involve him in a sex crime'.

And suddenly we see people on the left, flip flop on their Bush era claims that they favored a free press reporting facts over the propaganda machine our MSM had become, and joined the attacks on the messengers.

That leads to the question, 'was the Left serious in their opposition to all the crimes committed by the Bush administration, or was it all just political after all?