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Julian Assange, a true Aussie hero

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If we were to define the genuine australian hero, we would think of a hero
that rises up against wrongdoers and the powerful and self interested to reveal the truth.

A hero that stood stalwart under pressure in the defence of good old Aussie values such as freedom of speech and thought, fairness and justice for all.

In Australia, you don't dob too the authorities, you dob on the authorities.
Whistle blowing is acceptable in Australia because most australians since Eureka Stockade have harboured a healthy mistrust of authority, and rightly so.

Without Julian Assange and his Wikileaks, we would have never known how the U.S. really thinks or acts when attempting to enforce it's will upon the rest of us. If China was conducting similar activities throughout the world we would be concerned.

Australian citizenship should mean something, and for Assange it appears to mean nothing at all if the Australian Govt fails to stand by his side in the face of any trumped up charge from Sweden designed to discredit. Officially he is charged with an offence known as "Sex by Surprise".

It becomes obvious that invoking such draconian laws as anti terror against Assange would render him an institution , so therefore the plan is, to reduce his influence by having him categorised as a common pervert. Going beyond that the Canadian President has advocated his assassination, Wikileaks itself is under constant cyber attack.
All the things you would attribute to the guys wearing the black hats.

This is Australian citizen is under attack for making accessible the actual truth
through the revealing documents supplied by whistle blowers worldwide.
(And bless their brave souls for having the courage to do it).

There is no dispute about the bona-fides of the documents.

Assange says the next round of revelations will be in the corporate sector.
Whilst Assange himself never passes judgement on content, I think this where the dirtiest linen/truths of all will be revealed.
Through knowing truth we empower ourselves. Go Julian!.
Posted by thinker 2, Monday, 6 December 2010 3:40:30 PM
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"Through knowing truth we empower ourselves."

Well put thinker 2. Grass roots support for Assange is strong and that in itself is inspiring. This positive response should highlight to those in power that truth is far more effective and powerful than any form of deceit even if 'imagined' for higher purposes.
Posted by pelican, Monday, 6 December 2010 5:45:14 PM
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This bloke is delving into terrorism.
What has american infastructure got to do with knowing.
Posted by 579, Monday, 6 December 2010 5:53:53 PM
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It's revealing that when we stumble upon a person of the calibre of Julian Assange - which is rare in this world - most ordinary people recognise a person who stands for truth and integrity. Yet, it is telling that those in positions of power and "authority" see this "truth and integrity" as something that must be stopped at any cost.
Posted by Poirot, Monday, 6 December 2010 6:05:53 PM
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I agree Thinker, Julian Assange is without a doubt probably the greatest contributor to Western- if not global societies today;

Thanks to his actions the citizens of every democratic country, who may have been before unaware or given the benefit of a doubt- are now informed exactly what kind of people are representing them, and are now able to judge clearly if they would support such a person and let their crooked business continue knowing it's out in the open- because they themselves are too lazy to even bother spending five minutes browsing party policy homepages and pretend whatever Labor (or Liberal) do is not their own fault for voting for them, or get off the arses, take responsibility and demand better to hopefully steer their countries back on the right direction.

Now all Democrats voters in the USA would now need to think long and hard before they'd want to re-elect Hilary Clinton- a woman who tries to steal personal details off UN members (strangely, what she is accusing Mr Assange of despite the fact that he isnt).

Oh, and now Julian's "crime" is now "having consentual sex- but without a condom"- clearly illegal by Swedish law, and a worthy matter for interpol to be on the case! (apparently BOTH witnesses are actually members of some Christian society- which makes one wonder).

And to those 'oh this is anti-Western' morons (you know who you are)- I welcome the leaks, I'd welcome any scandal being committed by any major national leader or politician to be brought to our attention, be it the USA or Iran (although US citizens, actually capable of voting for their government, would benefit more)- and that is including Australia; it would be far better a western source leaked to Western media first so that Western people might be able to fix it before it gets out of hand, than a jihadi leaking it to Islamic media and using it for recruiting, while we, meanwhile, are unaware and fail to change it sooner?
Of course not, they would NEVER have found out right?
Posted by King Hazza, Monday, 6 December 2010 6:09:05 PM
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First it was the terrorist trained David Hicks who was an aussie 'hero' and now its Julian Assange. It must be a competition to see which one will be aussie of the year now that climate science faith has failed.
Posted by runner, Monday, 6 December 2010 6:52:29 PM
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