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Wikileaks boss Julian Assange is the reincarnation of Guo Zyi. In the Tang Dynasty (AD 618 to 907) in ancient China, a man named Guo Zyi became disgusted that all government business was done using sneaky secret alliances.
In response, he nailed his front door open.
Whenever anyone walked past his house, they could see him doing all the normal stuff that guys do: having a beer, cutting his toenails, washing his underpants, trying on his wife's clothes, etc. Everyone laughed at him.
But politics got so tangled that the government collapsed. Citizens spontaneously decided that the only trustworthy person in the kingdom was Guo Zyi -- and all because his front door was nailed open.
That's one of the main reasons why Wikileaks' fight against secrecy is so important.
The other 80% of the reason is that reading dirt about rich, famous people is really fun, go on, admit it.
And so I dash to the newspaper rack at my breakfast café every morning to see if anything really juicy appears among the latest Wikileaks exposes.
Recently, no luck. "British prince rude about French," said one headline. That's not news. Brits and Frenchmen have been chopping off each other's heads for 900 years, and decapitating someone probably counts as "rude." It does in my home, anyway (though maybe not at my office).
Some readers tell me they're disappointed that Wikileaks has failed to provide answers to the most tantalising rumours swirling around modern geopolitics.
1) Is it true that Barack Obama is, in fact, a woman?
2) Is it true that Hillary Clinton is, in fact, a woman?
3) Do the Virgin Islands really exist?
4) Is there really a country called Christmas Island and if so, why doesn't Santa Claus live there?
5) Why is there no edible food in Germany?
6) Could Lady Gaga, shockingly, be an alien life form?
7) Could Kim Jong Il, equally shockingly, not be an alien life form?
Etc, etc!
These are the most important current issues of the present day, unless you think my correspondents/commentators are wacko, lunatic-fringe conspiracy theorists. (Don't answer that!)
I decided to log on to Wikileaks and read the 250,000 classified documents myself.
The site was gone!
Wikileaks.com led to a blank page. So did Wikileaks.org.
"The bad guys keep shutting it down, so they have to keep finding new addresses," a geek told me. He asked me to join thousands of other people in putting an "I Am Wikileaks" badge on my website and offering support and links.
I did so, of course (end of post, below).
Thinking about Guo Zyi made me decide to rush home and remove my front door.
But my wife reminded me that we lived on the 9th floor of an apartment block, so the public wouldn't notice.
And the unfortunate people who share my floor would think I was dangerously deranged. So, no change there.
But it's important that the war on secrecy continues.
So please note, Presidents Obama, Kim, etc. Your secrets are safe for the moment. But it's only a matter of time.
My recommendation is that you nail your doors open before someone does it for you.
Mr. Assange and all his supporters (we are many) are approaching with hammer and nails.
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