Wild Aussie Julian Assange (Ass or Ange?) has been making huge waves lately.
His Wikileaks regurgitate the age old debate about the value of exposing the public to raw truth. Will exposure of foreign policy depravity inhibit its participants? This could well be. Moreover, non-violent anarchists inspire. And with fellow hackers disrupting major websites to protest his arrest, it seems his cyber warfare may be the one real threat to corporate power; traditional terrorists only offering an excuse to accrue military profits.
The media couldn't resist setting fire to this story. Had they maintained the discipline to ignore him from the start, he might not have captured the public's imagination. Now they'd like to downplay his importance the same way they pulled the curtains on the Gulf Spill. It'll be interesting to see how world politics is altered from this.
As he prods at politicians' hypocrisy, the fury he unleashed is something to behold. With personal attacks at Hillary no less and many people so angry they clamored for his head, there had to be fireworks. When the story broke out, much of the US endured wicked weather including tornadoes all over the South on Tuesday Nov.30 and flash floods in the East on Wednesday.
Hillary's leading the charge, and they have him in their view finder on a molestation charge he calls 'consensual but unprotected sex'. How symbolic...
