Sara Palin, the darling of right wing Republicans calls him a man with blood on his hands. Newt Gingrich, the Republican Presidential hopeful calls him criminal, Eric H. Holder, Attorney General of the United States describes him as one of the most dangerous men in the world, the European world leaders call him an indirect supporter of Al-Qaeda.
Does Julian Paul Assange, the founder of Wikileaks really deserve all these epithets? Is he a really a dangerous man who deserves to be prosecuted and locked up?
What Assange has done is nothing short of a new revolution to the proportion of industrial revolution of France or the protestant movement of Martin Luther. Regardless of his moral dilemma, Assange has challenged the way modern governments including democracies work. People have a right to know everything that their government does. Nothing is secret in a true democracy. Everything is transparent.
People pay their taxes and elect their representative who should be accountable before people. Assange has questioned the philosophy that the people’s national interests are different than people’s interests.
Courtesy : iviews