Think of all the rotten top-down policy decisions attributable to that 2000 Supreme Court decision. For me, it was the most disillusioning event since the Kennedy assassination.
Think of the mess we face now -" the financial collapse, the loss of job security, the dismal downward slide of the American education system and, finally, the huge waste of resources hosed into Iraq and Afghanistan.
If the Belgian physicist Jean Bricmont is right and our challenge in the West is to define "a form of life that (does) not depend on an unsustainable relation of domination over the rest of the world," eight years of the Bush Administration and its unprecedented regime of secrecy was the absolute worst thing that could have happened to America and Americans. The current Democratic regime has done little to change this legacy.
Julian Assange and Bradley Manning did not create the mess we now find ourselves in. But what they have had the courage to do may just eventually let enough sunshine in for change to happen.
So there's one thing to say to all the bloodthirsty critics of WikiLeaks:
Get over it!
This essay originally appeared at THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING at:
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/node/328
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