Topic: Wikileaks

I think the responsibilities and the actions of WikiLeaks are completely justifiable and are in service to the good of the general public. The fact that they face scrutiny from the federal security division (which has embezzled illegal currency, funneled arms to terrorist groups, and supplied groups like the cartel with drugs) is to me already a reason to trust them. Such a task could be deemed irresponsible if the WikiLeaks ever became invoked in Political discourse and started to cater to the Elite, but they haven't. They are people who have stuck to their guns and have risked their livelihoods just to get the real story across. Now I feel this way because corruption exists in all forms within not only the Government, but also through lines in the media. Corroborating false stories, favoring one Political monster over another, endorsing horrible candidates. Honestly as bad as many feel WikiLeaks is the only question I have is would you trust the other media circuses to have your back?

The video example given during the TED talk of unarmed Iraqi citizens getting fired upon with no provocation was a good example of how America carries itself out and demonstrates its power and aggression. The Iraq War was a cluster of violence and fatigue and the US did not even try to minimize its destabilization of the country while they occupied it and this video, along with many other videos that have surfaced, just shows how unwilling we are to abide by the rules we create and demand that others follow.

Free Speech and free expression are very broad topics of discussion for me. I think the state of both haven't really changed overtime as many have come to think. Our 'social liberties' have always been encroached upon. Politicians and authority figures like to dangle it in our face that we're 'free' and always bring the constitution and the liberties we are afforded but they often twist them to correlate with their actions, and resolve their guilty actions. Public schools teach impressionable kids to subscribe to their ideas instead of building them up to find out for themselves. While the freedom of our expressions may seem vast we've grown up in such a way that our minds think these sensibilities are nullified while the elite slowly strip us of our autonomy and our own thoughts.