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Wikileaks has done it again – rubbed our political masters up the wrong way – by releasing thousands of pages of classified info on the war in Afghanistan. I want to applaud Julian Assange and his historically significant project. The more I think about it, the more I see it as a manifestation of that famous line in the movie “V”: People shouldn’t be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their people.

When I first saw “V” I loved the idea behind that statement, but realised that people mostly do fear their governments. However, the Wikileaks project is showing the way – that it is governments that really need to fear their people.

What Julian Assange is doing is to use the internet in the way it should be used – to bring that which is “secret” into the open, and to make people aware of what it going on. He is using the internet as a radical freedom tool – to raise people’s consciousness as to what is really happening in the world.

One of the most powerful weapons in the government propaganda arsenal is the ability to control information. One bit of information the military wanted to control in Afghanistan was the fact that the Taliban appeared to have ground to air missiles, and used them to bring down some helicopters.

Instead of reporting this truth, it was considered counterproductive to the war effort – in that it may lead the public to connect such a fact to the events leading so the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan – precisely because of the same missiles in the past.

It is in such ways that the news is “managed” in order to keep us in the dark. If we know too much, too many gory details, then we may rise up and seriously protest against the prosecution of this and other wars.

I say “bring on Wikileaks, and bravo Julian Assange”.

P.S. As this article suggests, Wikileaks is the world’s first stateless news organisation. But will the warmongers manage to turn such leaks to their own advantage? Chris Floyd thinks so. Fred Reid has some additional things to say about why the Pentagon hates Wikileaks.

Addendum: This interesting article by Andrew Fowler is worth a read.