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As company after company fall over themselves to distance themselves from the controvencial wikileaks website, either in self-censorship or due to backroom arm twisting and the subsequent criminal and spying accusations and manhunt for its owner, I wonder how many people see the scary ramifications of this matter.

First of all, we have proof that a lot of stuff goes on that our own governments do not want us, their ultimate employers, from knowing.  We find that the suspicions some of us had of deceit and corruption are actually true and that we are ultimately responsible for things we, on a personal basis, may consider unethical and unacceptable.  How accountable do we want our Governments to be, should they be able to hide and deceive us ‘for the better good’?  Should we trust those same people to determine what the better good on our behalf is?  The ‘Not In Our Name’ anti-war campaign seems not to have been wide ranging enough.

The second scary fact is that once caught out, how quickly the powers find it possible to try and discredit and close now the avenues available to anyone who ‘rages against the machine’.  Multi-national companies we regard as powerful as Governments quickly bend to the will of some pipe piper whoever or whatever that happens to be.  What we do know it is not us and some of us may suspect it is not our Governments that are financed by the same large corporations.  I predict anyone’s contribution to wikileaks still stuck in the Swiss bank account or PayPal’s and Visa’s systems are unlikely to have it returned at any point in the future and expect no sympathy from the system.

Whether or not the leaks should have been released, whether or not they are as damaging or dangerous as they are made up to be, this affair should be sounding alarm bells with anyone who cares about the state of democracy worldwide.

Some Links

• http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/01/wikileaks-website-cables-servers-amazon
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11938320
• http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/dec/06/western-democracies-must-live-with-leaks

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