I stand by Julian Assange of Wikileaks

Ok, this is what I call a rant. It's unedited, ungamified and probably doesn't make much sense, but here I go...

If you haven't heard about Julian Assange by now, what rock have you been hiding under?

Long story short, this guy founded a whistle blowing website that leaks documents to the public about shady stuff governments, religious organizations and corporations don't want you to know about. Most recently someone (or many) leaked thousands of diplomatic cables to the site and Mr. Assange is getting all the blame for it.

But for what? Seriously, for what?

Ok, if these documents were confidential and they were leaked to Wikileaks they must have been leaked from
1) someone with confidential access
2) a super duper hacker (but highly unlikely)
3) a group of people both hackers and diplomats alike that probably want the public to know about this stuff because America is falling to pieces and we need a spark to ignite a revolution of change.

Don't believe me? I don't care, it's called an opinion and I stick by it.

In the western world, we pride ourselves in not being tryanical and allowing people to speak their minds without persecution but apparently we are not free of prosecution.

And, that is what Mr. Julian Assange was doing. He was speaking his mind when he made the site and others were speaking their minds when they posted to it. And, the U.S., which loves to jump on its high horse and talk about how democratic it is, wants to prosecute this guy!

You want to prosecute an Australian whose website headquarters are based in Sweden for commiting a crime against the U.S. government by leaking confidential documents?! I'm sorry, but a transparent government is a more just government and all Mr. Assange and his gang of leakers did was make the United States of America accountable for their actions.

The U.S. has been sitting pretty for over a century now on its entitlement throne. It will hold others responsible for their crimes against humanity, but it won't participate in the International Criminal Court. We will invade other countries based on reasons of "exploitation" and "coercion" but have state-run organizations based on those exact tactics. And the U.S. has had no problems supporting brutal, violent dictatorships for many years....they just don't want the public or its own citizens knowing about this. YO, founding fathers are rolling over in your graves yet?

The part that really gets me is that the thousands of diplomatic cables that were leaked were based on dimplomats reports. What diplomats mostly do is gather observations about how the outside world perceives them and reports them back to the U.S. in order to analyze and develop future foreign policy in that area. The leaks just validated that not only does the U.S. think its king of the freaking world, it expects every other country to bow down to its will. The funny part is, when you are in a recession and foreign countries own you and that imaginary thorne you perch yourself on....you can bitch but you can't do anything about it.
Oh wait, they can! They can cause a media shit storm that will once again divert the public's attention away from the shady things they continue to do and make them focus on this one guy whose leaks they don't particularly care for.

It's like the U.S. has been shit-talking everyone else in the world for over a century and someone just leaked all the gossip. Now, the U.S. is worried they won't get invited to anymore international birthday parties (because they all hate you now) and since Uncle Sam is broke, sick and unable to bail you out, you have to exploit lady justice instead of just accepting that you got caught red handed.

The drama the U.S. is causing over this debacle is worse than a Kardashian reality show....