Assange on Defense

Yesterday I decided to take part in Netflix’s free trial.  Mostly it was just to watch my favorite Family Guy episodes, but it turned into a bigger idea maker for me.  Page One: Inside The New York Times is a films about the running of one of the worlds most famous news organizations.  Released in 2011 it covers how the times handled  big news in 2009 and 2010 as well as the economics of keeping the paper afloat.

One of the stories they cover is the emergence of  WikiLeaks.  The brain child of Julian Assange.  First with their articles about the 38 minute video of US military attack on a group of people and a Reuters van .  Second a discussion about when they partnered with Assange to release a ton of documents covering cover-ups concerning the war in Iraq.  As I am watching I search different news organizations that are spotlighted such as Gawker, Huffington Post.

As I visit these to bookmark them I see the face of someone I am learning about in the film, Julian Assange.  Except this time he’s not wearing an imaginary cape he’s beating the president off with an invisible stick.  Once one who proudly stood tall in front of crowds, we now we see standing tired outside a door which leads to the Ecaudorian embassy in London,  Where he has been granted asylum.

He speaks of how the government needs to “The US war on whistleblowers must end” and that U.S. solider Bradley Manning who leaked classified information to the website; should be released..

As this story unfolds I will be certainly giving my opinion and keeping up with any updates.  For now though all I will say is this I didn’t mean it to be but holy hell was that timely!