Tuesday 7 December 2010

In Defence of WikiLeaks and Julian Assange: Open Letter to the Australian Government from Australian Citizens and Other Concerned People

Dec 6th, 2010

The campaign against WikiLeaks and its spokesperson Julian Assange is now in full swing. Cyber attacks, multiple legal prosecutions, blocked bank accounts, slanders and threats of violence are now the order of the day as Goliath attempts to grind down, demoralise or at least discredit this David. By releasing tens of thousands of secret US diplomatic documents, WikiLeaks has given us all an unprecedented opportunity to better understand the nature of US global power. We are now all witness to the unhappy spectacle of how that power protects itself.

More:
http://www.petitiononline.com/defendja/

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