WIKILEAKS: THE POLL...AND THE FUTURE

I’d like to thank everyone who took part in the poll (which I didn’t really announce, but just stuck there) on whether WikiLeaks were a good or bad thing.

A majority said that they thought a good thing (78% is pretty conclusive). One person could care less... representing 5% of the votes and 3 voted “bad” representing 15%.

I should have introduced the subject in an article, but the idea came to me when there was something else to post... so sorry about that. It may explain the very small number of voters.

I voted good, and I have been fulsome in my praise of Julian Assange. I was disappointed on the day that he gave away details of places, plants, installations, etc, which were vital to security and economy of America. That was wrong in my opinion. However, overall I’ve not changed my mind.

I believe that the extradition application is trumped up. They have chosen a “crime” that most people will find distasteful. The US government has cobbled together something too and may also ask for Assange. In theory as Sweden got in first they should have precedence, but as we all know American presidents or secretaries of states only have to make one phone call to overturn British policy on any subject. That reminds me of the minds of Alan Johnston or Vince Cable.

The magistrate who refused his bail despite Assange having gone to the police voluntarily, despite his surety being £100,000, backed by well known people, and despite the prisons being full, says that he fears the man would flee the country. But that’s highly unlikely given that he would be obliged to surrender his passport, and surely the border guards must be aware of Mr Assnage’s face by now.

I suspect that he may be looking for a seat in the House of £300+ a day.

But despite Mr Assange’s custody, the leaks continue. Despite efforts to close the websites and starve the organization of cash, Wikileaks are now mirrored by hundreds of sites all over the world... plus an email, or a letter, to the newspapers covering the story would suffice to continue the leaks. They must all exist in paper form by now....somewhere.

The “Authorities” in the UK and around Europe, not to mention the USA, would do well to tread carefully. They seem to have no idea just how angry people are.

We have been lied to; our troops have been sent on pointless missions where they have died, relatively frequently in “friendly fire” incidents; despite our best efforts we appear to have been thought useless by America and Afghanistan alike.

Our banks have been bailed out with our money, which they are now refusing to use for our good; a few stupid people have ruined people’s lives and made others very much harder; our politicians have been stealing from us, and continue to do so; our government in London has been crawling up America’s backside and doing us down in the process. And now to cap it all we are suffering the worst winter weather in decades, just as fuel companies are lying to us about why they are putting up fuel prices by more than twice the rate of inflation.

No one believes a word any politician says now, and yet the London lot address each other as Honourable, Rt Honourable and bloody Noble when many of them are quite simply the dregs of humanity.

Something has changed, and I don't think it will change back.

Pics: (1) Julian Assange in a nicer place than he is tonight; (2) Wikileaks, our opportunity to see just how much lying they've been doing; (3) One seriously angry group of people done over by their governments and their banks in Eire. It's possibly their standards of living will have to fall as far as parity with the UK's! No wonder they are angry.