Assange Mocks Obama Via Video At U.N. Event

[JDPriestly]

9. Assange has the courage to speak up and expose the truth.

Good for him. His speech was great. So was Obama's.

But we have a national security organization within our government that is extreme in its desire to hide the truth from us. It's downright pathological.

The lack of transparency actually helps terrorists because people who see the contrast between what our government says and what they see happening on the ground in their countries naturally feel contempt for our government.

It's like when parents tell their children something that isn't true. The child senses the truth and just distrusts the parents.

So Wikileaks has done a service in simply telling the truth about things that happened in the past. Better to get it out and be honest about some of the horrible things that our government has done in our names.

Obama argued strongly in favor of free speech. I hope he will leave Assange alone.