Are Liberals Too Eager to Believe Sex Charges Against Julian Assange?

[sabrina 1]

234. There are a few countries in this world that would totally disagree with you on that.

Are you seriously saying that Wikileaks exposure of the corruption in Iceland's banking system did nothing to change how that country dealt with the financial meltdown?

Do you really believe that the revelations about 'vote buying' in India's special election did not nearly bring down a corrupt government and result in India's realization that their 'democracy' was being seriously threatened, by interference from Washington DC? That this exposure did not benefit the people of India?

How about the revelations of corruption in Nigeria?

Or do you think the new President of Tunisia was wrong to thank Julian Assange for Wikileaks exposure of the corruption in the Ben Ami regime, and by doing so, contributed together with other factors, to the overthrow of that regime? I kind of think considering the new President was part of that revolution, that he would disagree with you.

And how about the exposure of the Egyptian Torture chief who was being considered as an interim leader?

All those leaks and many, many more created huge changes and will have long-lastiing effects..

Then there were all those leaks on Latin American countries and how they were being destabilized, leading to the expulsion of many people who were only there to do harm to those democracies?

The list is so long, but I have to say, when Anonymous hacked the security firm, Stratfor and posted their emails online, one of the strategies being discussed to diminish Wikileaks' influence was to claim that 'they had no difference in the world'. They talked about different strategies and settled on trying to diminish the importance of a free press.

So you are, probably inadvertently, maybe having seen it so often as that was their method of getting that talking point around, doing what Stratfor intended.

The problem with that strategy is that everyone knows how much of an effect Wikileaks has had around the world, most of it good, if you think the bad guys need to be exposed.