Julian Assange (from Wikileaks) Quotes – Beginning. “We can see that, and I hope this is increasingly apparent now after Snowden’s revelations, that we are facing a new Western religion. And that new Western religion is the national security state. It’s hurtling towards a dystopia. It is dragging many of us along with it –not combatants but all of those who use the internet– are sucked up into this system.” –Julian Assange (source) “We can see absurd results where the United States government issues orders to [ the military ], going back to even 2007 to it’s Guantanamo Bay stuff, they cannot look at the Guantanamo Bay manuals published by Wikileaks. No one in the military can look at the documents related to Edward Snowden’s disclosures. There is a “priestly class” within the new national religion of the United States. And those adherents of the cult they are not able to even look at this material, even though all the public is looking at it, it’s somehow “defiled” and “profaned” and therefore “toxic”. [ toxic ] to what?
(source) (source) Julian Assange profile: Wikileaks founder an uncompromising rebel | Media. Julian Assange is self-consciously an individual. He thinks in his own way, primarily as a physicist, having studied pure maths and physics at university in Australia where he grew up. So, for example, explaining his decision to found Wikileaks, he starts with his interest in the physics of a small release of energy triggering a much larger release; asks what small actions might release energy for "just reform"; identifies the role of information and observes the restriction on the amount of information flowing into the system; and sees Wikileaks as a mechanism "to maximise the flow of information to maximise the amount of action leading to just reform".
He also acts in his own way. Other people carry laptop computers; he carries a desktop machine in a rucksack on his shoulder. He reckons he is genetically predisposed to rebel. Assange's whole lifestyle is independent. Special event: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange at the Frontline Club, Following the release of more than 90,000 classified military documents on whistle-b... Video. How Wikileaks is Changing Journalism - Frontline Club Video. Daniel Ellsberg. Daniel Ellsberg (born April 7, 1931) is an activist and former United States military analyst who, while employed by the RAND Corporation, precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of U.S. government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War, to The New York Times and other newspapers.
Ellsberg was charged under the Espionage Act of 1917 along with other charges of theft and conspiracy, carrying a total maximum sentence of 115 years. Due to gross governmental misconduct and illegal evidence gathering, and the defense by Leonard Boudin and Harvard Law School professor Charles Nesson, Judge Byrne dismissed all charges against Ellsberg on May 11, 1973. Ellsberg was awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 2006. He is also known for popularizing part of decision theory, the Ellsberg paradox. Early life and career[edit] On his return from South Vietnam, Ellsberg resumed working at RAND. The Pentagon Papers[edit] Is Wikileaks Like the Pentagon Papers? | Floyd Abrams. With rendition switcher Question: Is the Wikileaks document release protected by the First Amendment? Floyd Abrams: Well, I don’t know of anything in what Wikileaks has published which violates any law.
There’s been some suggestion in some of the press that this is treason. It’s not treason for one thing because the people that run it aren’t even American. It’s not spying. It’s not the publication, so it seems, of the sort of material which we’ve ever made illegal. That doesn’t mean that one has to agree that Wikileaks should have done this, served the public by doing it, or that we even know what’s in the material. One of my concerns for example, it’s non-legal concern, but one of my concerns is that when you have 92,000 documents that it’s more likely than not that—when all of them are classified by the way, although at a relatively modest level—that there may well be some material which could be genuinely harmful to national security. Question: Is it treason? Pentagon Papers. A CIA map of dissident activities in Indochina published as part of the Pentagon papers The Pentagon Papers, officially titled United States – Vietnam Relations, 1945–1967: A Study Prepared by the Department of Defense, is a United States Department of Defense history of the United States' political-military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967.
The papers were discovered and released by Daniel Ellsberg, and first brought to the attention of the public on the front page of The New York Times in 1971.[1] A 1996 article in The New York Times said that the Pentagon Papers had demonstrated, among other things, that the Johnson Administration "systematically lied, not only to the public but also to Congress. "[2] More specifically, the papers revealed that the U.S. had secretly enlarged the scale of the Vietnam War with the bombings of nearby Cambodia and Laos, coastal raids on North Vietnam, and Marine Corps attacks, none of which were reported in the mainstream media.[3] Contents[edit]
WikiLeaks and Julian Paul Assange. The house on Grettisgata Street, in Reykjavik, is a century old, small and white, situated just a few streets from the North Atlantic. The shifting northerly winds can suddenly bring ice and snow to the city, even in springtime, and when they do a certain kind of silence sets in.
This was the case on the morning of March 30th, when a tall Australian man named Julian Paul Assange, with gray eyes and a mop of silver-white hair, arrived to rent the place. Assange was dressed in a gray full-body snowsuit, and he had with him a small entourage. “We are journalists,” he told the owner of the house. Assange is an international trafficker, of sorts. Iceland was a natural place to develop Project B. Assange also wanted to insure that, once the video was posted online, it would be impossible to remove.
Assange typically tells would-be litigants to go to hell. In his writing online, especially on Twitter, Assange is quick to lash out at perceived enemies. “That’s for you,” she said. “Someone?” The Bill of Rights: A Transcription. The Bill of Rights: A Transcription The Preamble to The Bill of Rights Congress of the United States begun and held at the City of New-York, on Wednesday the fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine. THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best ensure the beneficent ends of its institution.
ARTICLES in addition to, and Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, proposed by Congress, and ratified by the Legislatures of the several States, pursuant to the fifth Article of the original Constitution. Note: The following text is a transcription of the first ten amendments to the Constitution in their original form. Amendment I Amendment II Amendment III Amendment IV Amendment V Amendment VI.