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Australian of the Year: Julian Assange : Comments

By Jonathan J. Ariel, published 4/1/2011

His significance was realised late in the year, but this shouldn't stop Assange being The Australian of the Year.

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As perhaps a final comment on this subject, the one value in the Assange disclosures would be the fact that perhaps 20% of the world's population is now aware of the secretive nature of the public servants and politicians that serve their constituents badly, globally, but in this country, very badly indeed. As well, the blind ambitions of the likes of Gillard, Arbib, the vested interests of Fruydenberg and Danby and many others brings into question their loyalty to the country in which they live and should serve, in the interests of Australia, only.

But by far, the most disquietening aspect of the whole Wikileaks drama, disregarding Assange's profit motives, would be the failure of the media to pursue these questions of loyalty, particularly in the United States, the subject of most of the leaks, where the subservience to a foreign country, Israel, through graft and corruption has made its value as a dominant power for good deeds almost worthless in the eyes of the world. Its pursuit of specific interests in Afghanistan and previously in Iraq and currently Iran, all at the behest and directives of the Zionists, had reduced their credibility to zero. Their acceptance of massive drug corruption again, particularly in Afghanistan, shows that to the USA, the end justifies the means, even if the end is wrong, illegal and criminal. Let us not even mention, Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay and the daily acceptance of rendition as a way of life.

Anyone who considers the likes of Murdoch with his stable of jaundiced publications and media groups such as the despicable Fox News as a contributor to a free and informed society. is naive.

President Kennedy told the Newspaper Publishers Association that "it is to the printing press, the recorder of man’s deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news, that we look for strength and assistance, confident that with your help man will be what he was born to be: Free and Independent."

Who can imagine Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, or Barack Obama saying such a thing today.
Posted by rexw, Sunday, 9 January 2011 9:30:27 AM
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As predicable, Wikileaks can be exploited to disseminate misinformation by governments wishing to be provocative, even further hostilities. Assange and his associates are not able to identify valid from invalid 'leaks'. Assange is undoubtedly clever, but naive to believe that Wikileaks is going to be the 'font of truth.'

Lee Smith, a visiting fellow at the Hudson Institute, stated:

"The most problematic implication of the Wikileaks is that they have "muddied" the flow of information. For instance, a Beirut-based newspaper, Al Akhbar, ran a series of supposed Wikileak cables that were extremely damaging to U.S. allies in Lebanon and extremely helpful to Hezbollah, Tehran, and Damascus; even so, it is unclear how many of these were authentic. As a result, Wikileaks, have introduced the possibility of information fabrication in the future to serve the interests of U.S. adversaries."

The weakness of Wikileaks has been evident to any thoughtful person. Before taking on the Quixotean heroics of tilting at windmills, he should have considered the duplicity inherent in certain governments worldwide and the tool he was handing them. Surely, he is not so deliberately ill-informed ... and rabidly anti-US ...

Many people are as technologically skilled, even more so, than Assange. His intelligence as to the international stage appears to be woeful. To me he is a "wally".
Posted by Danielle, Monday, 10 January 2011 10:56:25 PM
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Beware Julian Assange.All information published is first passed by the US State Dept.In my opinion there is an agenda here to gain public support and then use Assanges' credibility to push for war with Iran or North Korea.

Why Zibigniew Brezezinski outed him as a Zionist stooge is puzzling.I thought Zibig was on the side of the war mongering neo-cons.
Posted by Arjay, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 6:09:12 PM
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