`The truth will always win’ - Julian Assange writes

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IN 1958 a young Rupert Murdoch, then owner and editor of Adelaide’s The News, wrote: “In the race between secrecy and truth, it seems inevitable that truth will always win.”

His observation perhaps reflected his father Keith Murdoch’s expose that Australian troops were being needlessly sacrificed by incompetent British commanders on the shores of Gallipoli. The British tried to shut him up but Keith Murdoch would not be silenced and his efforts led to the termination of the disastrous Gallipoli campaign.

Nearly a century later, WikiLeaks is also fearlessly publishing facts that need to be made public.

I grew up in a Queensland country town where people spoke their minds bluntly. They distrusted big government as something that could be corrupted if not watched carefully. The dark days of corruption in the Queensland government before the Fitzgerald inquiry are testimony to what happens when the politicians gag the media from reporting the truth.

These things have stayed with me. WikiLeaks was created around these core values. The idea, conceived in Australia , was to use internet technologies in new ways to report the truth.

Julian Assange is the editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks.
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[SpiralHawk]

1. "Ummm, hmmm. Smirk." - xCommander AWOL (R)

"Poor bastard ain't really factoring in RepubliCorp, Inc. (R) and RepubliMedia, Inc. (R), and RepubliOccultists, Inc. (R). Oh well, he'll figure it out as he withers away in prison. Bwaaa ha ha ha ha. Smirk."

- xCommander AWOL & Allied RepubliCronies (R)

[midnight]

2. Maybe the world is ready Julian?

[snappyturtle]

3. Great article! Comments are interesting too. Thanks for posting. nt

[malaise]

4. A brilliant Op Ed

V is for Vendetta!! Go WikiLeaks!! Gimme Some Truth.