It is said a splinter group has been formed from within Wikileaks.
Let us hope for ten times ten new reliable sites to start up, and that we can see the false ones set up to defame real ones.
Conservatives ,just a very few, are using support for Wikileaks to sling off at us, a sign in my view some fear truth and honesty.
If Wikileaks was producing lies I would be concerned, but as it is truth they print I am shocked at the criticism.

This is not just about Julian Assange Stg, it's about world communication and the control of it. It's about freedom of the press,
it's about an avenue for whistle blowers world over to expose things, that in most cases are clearly wrong in the minds of most people.
It's about the every day person being able to see his/her world more clearly. It's about our democratic way of life.

Assange is obviously being made the example, to cause fear in all those whom are considering to dare to expose Gov'ts, Big Business, the rich and powerful, with their pants down.

If nothing else Stg, it's better than reality Television because it has a bit of reality. And we might actually learn something from it.

Assange himself is a sideshow, the real target of the superpowers are the minds of the masses.

Also Stg, Assange, is an Australian citizen whom doesn't seem to have been afforded the rights of one. His treatment so far mirrors that which was afforded to another Australian citizen, Mandouh Habib (hope I've spelt that correctly) excepted they (the U.S.) haven't gotten Assange to the Guantanamo Bay part of the journey yet, with the sanction of our country's leaders.

I contradiction of their own, is it? 1st Amendment, guaranteeing freedom of the press, and contrary to our own Australian concepts of citizenship and it's rights and benefits.

He's a terrorist in the eyes of our Gov't. In my eyes he's a journalist doing the job you would hope a journalist was doing.

I very much agree with every word of that well written post thinker 2.
If just for a second we look at the middle east even China, we can see the benefits of the Internet and free speech.
For the first time in decades I Begin to hope world peace is possible.
Todays oppressed young all over the world are full of promise.
Who would have thought America land of the free,would be a danger to all this promise.
Wikileaks could never have existed if the world had nothing to hide.
China is unlikely to change, yet, because of the protests,I wish however north Korea had face book and such.

Ben Eltham wrote a great article for New Matilda entitled, "Wikileaks:
Democracy 101." In it he tells us that, "Wkileaks is a new medium. The organisation is less than five years old. From Wikileaks we're learning a great deal about the sinews of political power and financial power - that link the modern internet to the security and executive agencies of the contemporary nation-state. The content of these lessons has much to teach us about the state of our democratic societies."

What we're being taught is quite revealing. As Eltham points out:
"Wikileaks has been devastating not because for what it says but because it has cut through the lies, disinformation, and media spin on which modern democracies depend."

As Julian Assange points out: "There is nothing more wrong than a government lying to its people about (just) wars, than asking these same citizens to put their lives and their taxes on the line for these lies."

It's therefore not surprising that there's a "War Against Wikileaks."
There's much at stake - and as we know "Justice" wears a blindfold for a reason.

Lexi, every word could have been mine good stuff.
Control, once Hitlers mob tried to control what we think and how we think.
In the name of freedom, maybe free one way trade, tyrants, have been put in place or propped up by super powers.
Self interest and greed is behind much of the need to stop free speech.
Let us never forget, this man is not on trial for his ego.
Not for his Sharpe looks.
He is on trial, BRANDED STATE ENEMY NUMBER ONE for? not wearing a condom during consensual sex.
Such a crime, in that country is to take place in a closed court.
IF this man ends up in America, we can not rule out the country that forced an end to British colonialism after ww2 has forgotten its once proud traditions.
We must never discount the good the Internet and Wikileaks has done

StG, do tell how you expect a democratic country to operate properly when we don't have a free press to tell us what our own elected representatives are doing with our money and putting in our name?