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\nMichael Moore\u2019s diary :: ::<\/strong><\/p>\n**Sen. Joe Lieberman says WikiLeaks \u201chas violated the Espionage Act.\u201d<\/p>\n
**The New Yorker\u2019s George Packer calls Assange \u201csuper-secretive, thin-skinned, [and] megalomaniacal.\u201d<\/p>\n
**Sarah Palin claims he\u2019s \u201can anti-American operative with blood on his hands\u201d whom we should pursue \u201cwith the same urgency we pursue al Qaeda and Taliban leaders.\u201d<\/p>\n
**Democrat Bob Beckel (Walter Mondale\u2019s 1984 campaign manager) said about Assange on Fox: \u201cA dead man can\u2019t leak stuff … there\u2019s only one way to do it: illegally shoot the son of a bitch.\u201d <\/p>\n
**Republican Mary Matalin says \u201che\u2019s a psychopath, a sociopath … He\u2019s a terrorist.\u201d<\/p>\n
**Rep. Peter A. King calls WikiLeaks a \u201cterrorist organization.\u201d
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\nAnd indeed they are! They exist to terrorize the liars and warmongers who have brought ruin to our nation and to others. Perhaps the next war won\u2019t be so easy because the tables have been turned — and now it\u2019s Big Brother who\u2019s being watched … by us!<\/p>\n
WikiLeaks deserves our thanks for shining a huge spotlight on all this. But some in the corporate-owned press have dismissed the importance of WikiLeaks (\u201cthey\u2019ve released little that\u2019s new!\u201d) or have painted them as simple anarchists (\u201cWikiLeaks just releases everything without any editorial control!\u201d). WikiLeaks exists, in part, because the mainstream media has failed to live up to its responsibility. The corporate owners have decimated newsrooms, making it impossible for good journalists to do their job. There\u2019s no time or money anymore for investigative journalism. Simply put, investors don\u2019t want those stories exposed. They like their secrets kept … as secrets.<\/p>\n
I ask you to imagine how much different our world would be if WikiLeaks had existed 10 years ago. Take a look at this photo. That\u2019s Mr. Bush about to be handed a \u201csecret\u201d document on August 6th, 2001. Its heading read: \u201cBin Ladin Determined To Strike in US.\u201d And on those pages it said the FBI had discovered \u201cpatterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings.\u201d Mr. Bush decided to ignore it and went fishing for the next four weeks.<\/p>\n
But if that document had been leaked, how would you or I have reacted? What would Congress or the FAA have done? Was there not a greater chance that someone, somewhere would have done something if all of us knew about bin Laden\u2019s impending attack using hijacked planes?<\/p>\n
But back then only a few people had access to that document. Because the secret was kept, a flight school instructor in San Diego who noticed that two Saudi students took no interest in takeoffs or landings, did nothing. Had he read about the bin Laden threat in the paper, might he have called the FBI? (Please read this essay by former FBI Agent Coleen Rowley, Time\u2019s 2002 co-Person of the Year, about her belief that had WikiLeaks been around in 2001, 9\/11 might have been prevented.)<\/p>\n
Or what if the public in 2003 had been able to read \u201csecret\u201d memos from Dick Cheney as he pressured the CIA to give him the \u201cfacts\u201d he wanted in order to build his false case for war? If a WikiLeaks had revealed at that time that there were, in fact, no weapons of mass destruction, do you think that the war would have been launched — or rather, wouldn\u2019t there have been calls for Cheney\u2019s arrest?<\/p>\n
Openness, transparency — these are among the few weapons the citizenry has to protect itself from the powerful and the corrupt. What if within days of August 4th, 1964 — after the Pentagon had made up the lie that our ship was attacked by the North Vietnamese in the Gulf of Tonkin — there had been a WikiLeaks to tell the American people that the whole thing was made up? I guess 58,000 of our soldiers (and 2 million Vietnamese) might be alive today.<\/p>\n
Instead, secrets killed them.<\/p>\n
For those of you who think it\u2019s wrong to support Julian Assange because of the sexual assault allegations he\u2019s being held for, all I ask is that you not be naive about how the government works when it decides to go after its prey. Please — never, ever believe the \u201cofficial story.\u201d And regardless of Assange\u2019s guilt or innocence (see the strange nature of the allegations here), this man has the right to have bail posted and to defend himself. I have joined with filmmakers Ken Loach and John Pilger and writer Jemima Khan in putting up the bail money — and we hope the judge will accept this and grant his release today.<\/p>\n
Might WikiLeaks cause some unintended harm to diplomatic negotiations and U.S. interests around the world? Perhaps. But that\u2019s the price you pay when you and your government take us into a war based on a lie. Your punishment for misbehaving is that someone has to turn on all the lights in the room so that we can see what you\u2019re up to. You simply can\u2019t be trusted. So every cable, every email you write is now fair game. Sorry, but you brought this upon yourself. No one can hide from the truth now. No one can plot the next Big Lie if they know that they might be exposed.<\/p>\n
And that is the best thing that WikiLeaks has done. WikiLeaks, God bless them, will save lives as a result of their actions. And any of you who join me in supporting them are committing a true act of patriotism. Period.<\/p>\n
I stand today in absentia with Julian Assange in London and I ask the judge to grant him his release. I am willing to guarantee his return to court with the bail money I have wired to said court. I will not allow this injustice to continue unchallenged.<\/p>\n
P.S. You can read the statement I filed today in the London court here.<\/p>\n
P.P.S. If you\u2019re reading this in London, please go support Julian Assange and WikiLeaks at a demonstration at 1 PM today, Tuesday the 14th, in front of the Westminster court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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Tue Dec 14, 2010 at 04:12:19 AM PST Yesterday, in the Westminster Magistrates Court in London, the lawyers for WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange presented to the judge a document from me stating that I have put up $20,000 of my own money to help bail Mr. Assange […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[579],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflected-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3299,"url":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2010\/11\/16\/financial-warefare-against-wikileaks\/","url_meta":{"origin":3419,"position":0},"title":"Financial Warefare Against Wikileaks","author":"admin","date":"November 16, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Julian Assange & Wikileaks TargetedWebsite's Donation Collection Company Caves To Political Pressure At 5pm EST Friday 22nd October 2010 WikiLeaks released the largest classified military leak in history. 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