Julian Assange Op-Ed posted today in "The Australian": "The Truth Will Always Win"

[Better Believe It]

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange wrote this Op-Ed for The Australian today:

The Truth Will Always Win
by Julian Assange
Julian Assange is the editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks.
December 7, 2010

WikiLeaks coined a new type of journalism: scientific journalism. We work with other media outlets to bring people the news, but also to prove it is true. Scientific journalism allows you to read a news story, then to click online to see the original document it is based on. That way you can judge for yourself: Is the story true? Did the journalist report it accurately?

Democratic societies need a strong media and WikiLeaks is part of that media. The media helps keep government honest. WikiLeaks has revealed some hard truths about the Iraq and Afghan wars, and broken stories about corporate corruption.

WikiLeaks is not the only publisher of the US embassy cables. Other media outlets, including Britain ‘s The Guardian, The New York Times, El Pais in Spain and Der Spiegel in Germany have published the same redacted cables.

Yet it is WikiLeaks, as the co-ordinator of these other groups, that has copped the most vicious attacks and accusations from the US government and its acolytes. I have been accused of treason, even though I am an Australian, not a US, citizen. There have been dozens of serious calls in the US for me to be "taken out" by US special forces. Sarah Palin says I should be "hunted down like Osama bin Laden", a Republican bill sits before the US Senate seeking to have me declared a "transnational threat" and disposed of accordingly. An adviser to the Canadian Prime Minister's office has called on national television for me to be assassinated. An American blogger has called for my 20-year-old son, here in Australia, to be kidnapped and harmed for no other reason than to get at me.

In its landmark ruling in the Pentagon Papers case, the US Supreme Court said "only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government". The swirling storm around WikiLeaks today reinforces the need to defend the right of all media to reveal the truth.

Please read the full Op-Ed at:

http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/mediadiary/index.php/australianmedia/comments/julian1/

[Scurrilous]

1. K & R

Off to the greatest.

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[Catherina]

2. Rec'd n/t

[Desertrose]

3. K&R!!

Ain't this a mouthful!

"only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government"

Sorta excludes our press, doesn't it?

[laughingliberal]

4. K & R nt

[snagglepuss]

5. K & R nt

[sabrina 1]

6. He is right, in the end the truth does triumph

and kudos to him for being willing to put himself on the line to get it out.

They made him a hero today. MLK and others before him who were part of big changes in the world, travelled the same path he is on.

He has so much support around the world for what he is trying to do.

I hope he stays safe and that no one from this country is allowed access to him in that jail.