Wikileaks and YOU

Okay, I’m going to be perfectly honest here and say that unlike what seems like the rest of the world, I don’t know a whole lot about Wikileaks. I know that it is a non-for-profit organisation and the front man is Julian Assange, a 39-year-old convicted rapist (lol, jokes) from Queenslander (wow, 39. He looks a lot older..), but other than that my knowledge kind of dwindles. So I’m going to do my best to come up with a substantial blog post around this topic, so bare with me.

Having little to no knowledge on this topic puts me at somewhat a disadvantage, but I’m going to throw this out there and say that Julian Assange and what he is doing with Wikileaks seems pretty important in my opinion. No one really knows where Julian Assange actually came from, but he seems like an alright guy? Doesn’t he? Maybe a bit mumbly and quiet but it’s the quiet ones you have to watch! True?

  

I think Wikileaks is actually doing the world a favour, he’s basically delivering factual evidence to the public, when we all have a right to know. In reality isn’t it the ‘whistle-blowers’ or ‘tattletales’ as they were called in primary school, the ones that should get most of the blame? Not saying that they’re doing the wrong thing either but isn’t hating Julian Assange pretty much a complete slap in the face for the “don’t shoot the messenger” saying. I mean, Julian himself isn’t writing/making these stories/videos and sourcing them to Wikileaks. So why is Assange getting all the blame and hate? Hundreds of reporters and journalists tell lies and stories much worse than Assange, or maybe its because what he is delivering is actually the truth is what people are more afraid of and people have no one else to blame other than him, as the sources are anonymous and most people don’t have the will power to go out and find out more information on what they’re seeing and find the source or stop the person/people involved in such bad behaviour, so I guess they send all their hate to Mr. Assange.

Personally, I think having this technology, and people like this at our disposal now compared to back in World War I or II will make us more aware of what is happening in the world makes us more likely to contribute our time and effort into bettering it and putting our minds together to get something constructive out of it.  Having information like this private for politicians just asks for conspiracy theories and hatred. At least, having Wikileaks gives us that small piece of mind that somewhere out there in this world there are people who care what the public see and want us to be informed. Also, knowing that Assange and his accomplices are doing this for no profit, and have invested over thousands of dollars into this organisation must mean they must just want the public to know what we don’t already. 

Julian Assange; An Accurate Portrait