“Oh yeah, look at those dead bastards”, and “Ha, ha, I hit them”, said the crew of a US helicopter as they machine-gunned Iraqi civilians, including a child, in Baghdad. (12/07/07)
That is part of what Chelsea Manning exposed and Julian Assange published, for which they are prosecuted and punished, apparently unlike that crew.
There appear to be two types of charge against Mr Assange. One relates to rape and one to accessing information about particular behaviours of a nation’s rulers. They are both to do with security – individual, group national and international.
Security matters to all of us and our descendants, for always.
Can citizens be secure when governments connive at atrocities such as that above, work to hide them, and prosecute the truth tellers?
Security needs equitable law, proportionate and accountable force, a well-educated and informed citizenry and a courageous independent main stream media.
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