I come as do most to DKos to read political diaries (mostly individual opinion) and learn some facts which are usually attached to peoples diaries in the form of references or clickable links.
The reason I come to DKos for political discourse and not other Web sights like FOXNews.com or bigpeace.com is because I want progressive political discourse. I don't want or need regression or a return to some romanticized past era.
Most of all I want the truth, I want to know why things are going the they are going in the US Govt and around the world. I've come to the conclusion since my childhood (as I am sure most sane adults have) that the truth is hard to come by. It requires some effort to bring it out into the open for all to see.
So I have come also to believe that WikiLeaks and the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative are extremely important in the progressive individuals struggle to find the truth.
All I need to know that WikiLeaks is a shining star of truth in a world under attack from the Intelligence Communities (IC's) of the world Governments, including the United States Govt IC. Are the recent criminal charges brought against Julian Assange one of the founders of WikiLeaks.
Almost immediately after WikiLeaks released the Iraq war documents in July 2010 that the US Govt was hiding by classifying them as national secrets. Julian Assange is charged with Rape in Sweden (Aug 20, 2010) and an arrest warrant is issued to put him in jail. Then the next day, oop's the charges are dropped because in the opinion of the prosecutor's they are unwarranted. Now today (Sept 02, 2010) the case is being re-opened by a higher level persecuting authority in Sweden who is willing to pursue the case further. Rape Case
Not to mention what happened to US Army PFC Bradley Manning who is a suspect in the leak of the alleged secret documents. Manning was whisked away to a military prison and labeled a malcontent and emotionally unstable by the MSM US Army PFC Bradley Manning. He has not been heard from since. Not a peep. He has been silenced and nullified by the IC folks.
It seems pretty obvious to me that the IC's of USA, UK, Russia, ... ad nauseum are like a runaway train with the NGE (Non Govt employee) citizens of these Govt's tied to the tracks. They (the IC's) have death machines, death squads, smear squads, propaganda squads and black budgets. Not to mention lots of secret stuff and secret documents that NGE citizen tax payers are not allowed to see. What are these IC's afraid of ? Are they afraid of their own NGE citizen tax payers ?
As a matter of fact I think they are afraid of the NGE citizen tax payers because we still have the power to neuter them. Just for how long the strong willed IC folks will allow this threat to hang over their massive plutocratic heads I am not sure.
My idea is that The Icelandic Modern Media Initiative and WikiLeaks should be on the forefront of the progressive agenda (even in USA) since they could well be one of the only sources of real honest to God truthful data on what world Govt's want to hide from their tax paying NGE citizens.
Think of the possibilities if whistle blowers had a foolproof safe haven to download their stuff.
What could we learn ? Only The Truth
Finally: I would like to add that I hope we have more than one organization like WikiLeaks. We should have many. In the same way that the Govt's of USA and the rest of the world have equivalents of the NSA, CIA, NSC, FBI, Homeland Security, etc, etc, ... add absurdum.