Julian Assange

I read this and wept.

Because it is obvious to us all that the *vested interests* will pursue Wikileaks and Julian Assange until they break it and jail him. There is far too much at stake for the powerful war mongers to let this one go. They are used to ruling the world and pushing everyone around and they don't take kindly to anyone upsetting their deadly little game. Especially if it involves informing the proletariat.

So pretty soon Wikileaks will disappear and Julian will be locked up or otherwise neutered. I really feel for him and his family. And it's no good expecting our government to help - clearly they are batting for the other side. To verify that all you have to do is look at the prior treatment of David Hicks. Pity the next Australian who gets caught up in something like this.

So the net effect will be to push the next Wikileaks and the next Julian Assange underground. And to build a network centric organisation that can survive when one of the nodes is disabled. I wonder if it might look a little like the way that al Qaida run things - because for nearly a decade big brother has been unable to neuter them?

And it won't go away - while ever governments are corrupt and manipulative and people have a conscience then that corruption will be exposed by whistleblowers.

It's just a shame that the powerful states don't use this opportunity to moderate their behaviour and to take a more transparent approach to exercising their power. I guess there aren't many students of history running big government these days.