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Originally Posted by jimbuna
Okay then, let us scrap all judicial systems around the world for fear there are political motives or potential motives of any theme for that matter.
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Where have I said something indicating that? I made no generalization for all crime cases there are. I just point out that sometimes things are not what they seem to be, and thus sometimes the standard routines and procedures necessarily fail or allow to get abused for totally different purpose than criminal investigation and "justice". It was like that with Strauss-Khan, and I think it is like that with Assange.
It is ironic, but Assange and this American Marine who now sits in prison, already are limited in their freedom, because they made public the lies and betrayals, the failures and cheatings of decision makers and politicians. But the politicians who lied and betrayed and failed and cheated still are free, and enjoy the shine and gloss of being called "victims" of evil "treason".
Assange would have had nothing to reveal and to report - if said politicians and decision-makers would not have played foul before. There were times when newspapers were seen as a vital pillar of a democratic system, serving in a function of checks and balances by reporting about what went wrong and where fraud and lie took over in the system. But this investigative journalosm has fallen victim to political correctness, lobbying, being bought up by propaganda- interests and being hijacked by bipartisanship. Or uncooperative media not playing tame and lame with the "system" are being ignored by the government. Or media by laws gets stripped of their sources, get threatened by legal sanctions, and their informants being intimidated by compulsory revealing of their identity. And this is the West, this is America! The conventional press fails in monitoring and in a way: controlling the political actors and the rules by which the game is played. Internet is taking over, at least it tries. Sites and projects like Wikileaks are a must. Nobody is left to confront governments and parties and elites with the threat of revealing it when they play foul.
Needless to say that those in power hate the idea to share it with the people. The fundaments on which some nations were founded, are hollow corpses only today, have been systematically eroded, and hijacked for being turned into something every different. this is my major criticism of the US, and Germany as well - and I honestly can'T say in which country the mess I desribed is bigger. To me, both are patients in coma, connected to the life-support machines of an intense-care station.
We are in desperate need of projects like Wikileaks. Because our governments and the whole political and business leader class have become our worst enemies.