I must express my deepest sentiments for our brothers and sisters affiliated with Wikileaks. They have been ruthlessly attacked, singled out, professionally ruined, in some cases, and even worse, imprisoned. The reality is that this organization stands for something that has really never existed. It stands for transparency. Transparency breeds justice, for only discovered injustice (truth) can be addressed and actually changed. To be a young, gay man in the Army, watching a daily barrage of death, violence and injustice occur at the directives of his superiors, and feeling absolutely helpless, one can't help but empathize with Bradley Manning--whose clear intention was to expose criminal behavior carried our by our government in the name of the American people, if indeed the allegations of his supplying Wikileaks with classified documents are true. He has now been charged with 22 crimes, one of which includes "aiding the enemy" and has verifiable evidence that contraindicates any theories of collusion with Wikileaks co-founder, Julian Assange. Based off his most serious charge of "aiding the enemy", the government fails to realize it is subsequently implicating Wikileaks as an enemy, which alludes to the notion that transparency, then, is the enemy. Aren't transparency and democracy sort of contingent on one another? As a U.S. citizen, I feel that if our government has no transparency, I have no democracy.. YOU have no democracy. Therefore, to Wikileaks! Without truth telling provocateurs, this nation would never have been founded and the Vietnam War logs would never have been released, exposing horrible criminality. The only thing Wikileaks is not, is a question.
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