http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/2010/07/2010726112724506988.html
At 15:44, the interviewer asks Julian:
What about your core values? .. maybe some incident in your life that helped form them?
IN HIS RESPONSE, JULIAN SAYS:
. . . capable generous men do not create victims, they nurture victims. That’s something from my Father and something from other capable generous men that have been in my life … I’m a combative person. So I’m not actually so deep on the nurture. .. There is another way of nurturing victims, which is to police perpetrators of crime. So that is something that has been in my character for a long time.
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What a hoot! History speaks of the “balance of power” between nation states competing for power in the international arena. They use their “might makes right” with the largest military forces and the superior destructive power of their weapons.
TODAY, the balance of power is between PEOPLE from every nation, linked around the world, in opposition to the freaks of power and control and destruction at the tops of their corporate and government structures. It doesn’t matter which country is the perpetrator, we have joined hands to unseat the freaks. See the wikileaks information below.
Thanks to John Keen for identifying it as “make war against those who make war”.
It is interesting how common themes emerge:
– In phone conversation John says We can have absolute trust in the Government and corporate heads to lie.
– Lynn writes I just want to comment on the WikiLeaks. Last night’s news was “tsk, tsking” about the veracity of the information on Wikileaks. The U.S. Government sources said ” Aww, we knew all that, it was old news ” The British were saying “It’s inaccurate” ( and the two countries – my goodness – lied to Parliament and Congress about reasons for war) And both countries also leaked the identities of secret service agents when those people contradicted the justification for war of each country-(Valerie Plame in the U.S. and who was the man who was said to have killed himself in Britain?) Veracity, accuracy indeed . The lies that tried to justify the war of aggression on Iraq.
Many thanks to Elaine for the WIKILEAKS’ most recent escapade. Wonderful! – – boy, does it ever give hope.
It’s worth your time to watch this short youtube interview:
Why the world needs WikiLeaks – Focus – Al Jazeera English
http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/2010/07/2010726112724506988.html
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As I see it, our efforts to put an end to Lockheed Martin’s involvement in the Canadian census is a contribution to the work that Julian Assange and the other people at wikileaks are doing. All of us, wherever we are, taking advantage of the particular opportunities, and also creating the conditions for the opportunities to happen.
People ARE taking away the power from those at the top who make the war because they profit from it.
If we don’t, we are the only ones who pay the price, whether we are here in Canada or over there in Afghanistan.
Canadians are paying at least 11 billion dollars in taxes to Lockheed Martin Corp. In the end, the money is used for one thing: to destroy. Young Canadian soldiers killed and maimed for life. You can’t even put a dollar value on that. All because the ways of Gandhi, non-violent resistance, are effective but they don’t make money for the military-industrial-congressional structure.
This latest “wikileak” is a profound shift in the balance-of-power between international citizens and the powers-at-the-tops.
Wikileaks raising hell with the Afghan papers:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/26/war-logs-wikileaks-rebuts-criticism
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It will be interesting now to see the renewed efforts to restrict internet access. To date, activists have been able to create a furor and block each time an attempt has been made.
It doesn’t matter that the New York Times covers for Lockheed Martin Corporation, and that the Canadian media has been largely silent on Lockheed’s involvement in the Canadian census and the Charter Right to Privacy. Everyday people are taking over.
People on my street in Canada spreading the information that will help the people who would like to walk like us, on their street in Afghanistan or Iraq. It is the leaders, the power at the top, who create the war. It is the everyday citizens who will put a stop to it. All we have to do is share the information in our networks. A fun way to do the revolution, eh?