Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Do You Want to Know the Secret


Julian Assange is considered immoral by some people, but he actually fights for our moral standards to bring us truth and justice. He aims to help expose corruption in governments.

Julian wants people to know the facts about what is really happening inside their countries government. He wants to create a world without corruption and lies. His promise is to publish material that will have a significant impact, no matter what country it is.

Julian Assange shows good journalism by presenting people with facts, instead of lies so that citizens of that country can make up their minds about their own government, and the actions of their government so that when it comes to elections, people will not be scared or fear the government and they can put pressure on the government also.

For instance, before 2004, Kenya was ruled by a dictator, Daniel Arap Moi, for 18 years. And Kibaki wanted to clean up corruption in Kenya so he and a coalition of forces got into power.

Three days after Kibaki came into power, he found out that Moi had siphoned more that £1bn of the governments money. So he started an investigation to recover the money that Moi had stolen.

But Kibaki was caught up in his own trouble and was giving huge government contracts to bogus companies. Kibaki then started to support Moi and did not prosecute him so a a senior government official who was mad at Kibaki for not taking down Moi, released the information to Wiki Leaks.

20 days before the election, this information was released by Wiki Leaks and actually shifted the vote by 10%, causing Kibaki to lose the election.

This is a great thing that Julian Assange did because he presented the people with the facts and truth about their government. He showed them the corruption and they got to choose who they wanted to run their government by not re-electing Kibaki. Julian Assange brought down an immoral dictator to help the Kenyans get corruption out of their government.

Unless Whistle blowers signed a document that had to do with not releasing information, they should never be persecuted, silenced, or sued for a courageous and patriotic thing they are doing for the citizens of that country.

We should reward these people for showing morals and being honest and giving us truth. We need to back them up when any company of the government tries to shut them down just like Wiki Leaks does.

People in the Obama administration were suppose to protect whistle blowers. But the government is actually "ILLEGALLY" spying on U.S. journalists by obtaining bank records, credit reports, and phone and travel activities without authorization.

This is wrong because Obama said he would protect these people and now, once again, the government is going behind our backs and lying to us and trying to bring down more whistle blowers with corruption.

Julian Assange has released a lot of information and videos about Afghanistan, but it is all relevant to show how cruel and careless our government is of other countries.

We had an attack helicopter 1km up in the sky and it fired down 30mm shells upon a group of people including journalists and people helping the injured. Those two journalists were killed including 18 to 26 more people and two children were extremely injured.

Everyone knows that journalists are not insurgents and their job is to gather information and that is it. But our military looks for any reason, sometimes, to fire their weapons on people so they can get their hands dirty.

People who are in the military are not going to change their views on the war because they are actually the ones who are seeing the fighting in Afghanistan everyday. When a helicopter shot and killed people including children, the guy pilot laughed and said that they should not have brought their children with them.

Nobody, no matter who you are should laugh at the death of innocent people. Julian is posting these videos so that the people who are watching them change their view and perception on the war because they are the ones who are paying for it all in the end.


Even though Julian Assange is releasing some pretty top secret information, it needs to be released to the public because it is important information to the world and it can achieve reform. The government should not say or do some of the things they do if it embarrasses them or cause international or domestic problems.


Daniel Ellsberg sees eye to eye with Julian Assange in releasing all the papers he has on Afghanistan. He was the one that released the "pentagon papers" during Vietnam.

Daniel thought that the "pentagon papers" of Iraq should have been released also and he wishes that the Afghanistan documents were released earlier. He has seen the same war crimes in Vietnam that the video shows in Afghanistan. And this is why he spoke out and released those papers of Vietnam so people could see how our military "REALLY" does things.

Wiki leaks released documents on Tunisia about the corruption of the government, and how they get whatever they want. So the people of Tunisia overthrew the government and reformed their oppressive regime.

Julian's team only posts documents that has a verified source. But Wikileaks is acting in such a way where people feel morally compelled to continue their mission and not to screw it up.

The government is trying to prosecute Julian Assange and his team for espionage, but its going to be really hard for them to find any criminal charges on him because he is not spying at all on the government, he is publishing information that whistle blowers are giving him.

If the government wants Julian Assange to stop all this, they need to make new espionage laws to shut him down, but until then, he should not be able to be punished for just expressing his morals by stating the truth.

The people that put us in danger and our military is not Julian Assange, but the last two administrations, particularly this last one, because they are the ones that are sending our men and women into war when they know that it is pretty much hopeless.

We are fighting enemies that are stronger than they have ever been before. They are preferring to send men and women in harms way to die and to kill civilians and others rather then facing the accusations of generals.

The politicians have lost a war that the generals foolishly claim that we can win. We have spent over 300$ billion and Congress is voting on spending another 33$ billion.

Lyndon Johnson was the same way back in Vietnam because he did not want General Johnson of the Chief of staff of the Army or anyone else to resign if he did not give him enough of what he was asking for. And president Obama is making the same mistake.

Julian Assange says that it is not impossible for people to get hurt later on from the information that he is publishing, but not one person has been killed from the cables and report Julian Assange has released as of now.

They have held back one in five documents for extra harmonization review. The only person that he is putting in danger by releasing all the information is himself.

Sarah Palin said that Wiki Leaks should be dealt with like the Taliban which holds for him to be kidnapped, arrested, or even murdered because some people could carry this out. Julian has to change his hair style and his phone numbers every so cameras do not notice him.

Julian Assange is battling human morals with the government, and he is winning because he is getting the information that we deserve to hear out in public instead of being kept in the secrecy of our national government. He is shining a light inside companies and government to reveal those dark secrets.

Julian Assange has a quote that portrays one of his main core values. It says "capable generous men do not create victims, they nurture victims." Another way to nurture victims is to police perpetrators of crime. This is has been in his character a long time which shows how good is morals really are.

Iceland went through the biggest financial crisis ever in the world. Its banking sector was 10 times the GDP of the rest of the economy. When they released the report in Iceland and it was suppose to air on the news, an injunction was put on the desk in front of the news reporter.

Since they did not know what to do, they showed the Wiki Leaks website the whole time and they got a lot of viewers and became famous.

As a result of this injunction, nobody thought that it should ever be done again so Julian worked with Iceland politicians and legal experts and put together a new type of legislation. Now Iceland has free press and a Noble Prize of free speech.

Not only is Julian Assange giving us the truth about things, but he is rebuilding countries legislation systems for the better. These are the type of morals standards that Julian Assange portrays and this is why he is a hero in our world.

1 comment:

  1. Good quick start. You get right to your point.

    2nd paragraph seems too much like an intro.

    Good use of images to break up the text and good paragraphing.

    Good example of Kenya. That builds your ethos. I think you should hyperlink Kibaki to lose the election.

    Your defense of whistleblowers is too short and too general. Also, wouldn't most people support whistleblowers?

    Is your source for "spying on US Journalists" link really valid? It looks like a pretty dodgy website, a smalltime blogger. This paragraph keeps the topic of whistleblowing alive, but I don't know if you've proven to me the interaction between Obama and prosecuting whistleblowers.

    The Afghanistan comes out of nowhere. How can you transition better?

    Link to source of pilot laughing and the children line.

    There are sections here that flow well, but also some massive leaps to new subjects that leave me as a reader rather bewildered.

    I think the Daniel Ellsberg section could be expanded. Perhaps make fewer points but get in depth on those ones more.

    The diction slips into vagueness too often. Like this paragraph:

    "We are fighting enemies that are stronger than they have ever been before. They are preferring to send men and women in harms way to die and to kill civilians and others rather then facing the accusations of generals."

    There's no specific evidence or specific names or hyperlinks. These are the type of paragraphs and sentences that you should go through your essay and cut out. The Kenya example, on the other hand, is one that you should keep.

    Think about paragraphs in terms of clusters now. For a period of 5 - 7 paragraphs (a cluster) stick on the same topic. You're still treating paragraphs like you do for print writing -- every paragraph gets a new topic. This makes this choppy.

    Your thesis is about immorality and morality, but you really don't mention those keywords hardly at all in the rest of the essay, and certainly don't dig into how we would consider him moral, or if he is more moral than others, or what would make him immoral.

    Right now the essay feels too listy. It's a list of tangentially related Assange points, but it doesn't cohere into a unified essay with a single point.

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