Online Documentary Calls on Government to Support WikiLeaks, Assange
- Posted on February 8, 2011 at 3:24pm by
Meredith Jessup
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An online community calling themselves “Revolution Truth” is pressing the United States government to be lenient on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange after the online site published hundreds of thousands of once-classified diplomatic cables and national security memos.
According to the group’s website, Assange is responsible for giving “common people access to truths that are being systematically denied us. Truths that we need to restore and preserve our democratic freedoms.” (sic) In addition, they credit WikiLeaks for helping incite the “Egyptian Revolution.”
In response, videos submitted to the site in support of Assange are being “morphed into a short film (to be released soon), a website, and a growing global campaign.”
“Citizens around the world need their voices to be heard. We hope to be a conduit for these voices,” the group says, condemning a “plethora of deeply biased and negative press” surrounding Assange.
The project was founded by Tangerine Bolen, a woman who says she’s “unwavering in her commitment to decreasing oppression, increasing liberty, and spreading hope and joy in a world that needs each of us to be its course correction.”
The group’s work is being advertised by controversial filmmaker Michael Moore, on whose website Bolen routinely blogs.
The objective of this project is two-fold. First, it is to interrupt the US government’s attempts to villainize and prosecute Julian Assange and bring down Wikileaks. Second, it is to assist in shifting public opinion in the US by strategically highlighting the potential loss of key freedoms including free speech and a free press and the implications this could have on open societies everywhere. The end of our video will direct viewers to sign on to this letter. The goal is to collect as many signatures as possible.
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Jim in Houston
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 11:05amThe first time I ever agreed with anything Bob Beckel said.
Report Post »Squ33
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 12:20pmPFC Manning should definitely be tried in a court of law for the crime of treason…however Julian Assange should not be executed, or labeled a terrorist, etc.
Report Post »MHP
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 5:00amAssange still needs to be Executed, and so does PFC Manning.
TAKE THAT CODE PINK
Report Post »SeamusMuldune
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 11:00amAs does G.W. Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney for deliberately misleading the American public into Iraq, resulting in the death of thousands of U.S. troops for untold reasons. Is that not mass negligant homoside?
Report Post »Jim in Houston
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 11:08amSeamusMuldune: You are terminally stupid. You need to get out of your parent’s basement and get some oxygen to your drug soaked brain.
Report Post »staythecourse
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 4:32amI’m kinda wondering why on their home page the top banner shows Muslim men bowing down praying?…. just asking….
Report Post »Malcom0983
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 8:26amGood catch. I missed it when I originally went there.
Report Post »taskmaster78
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 8:51amI would assume they have a common goal and similar ideas.
Report Post »SeamusMuldune
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 10:39amThe banner you speak of is an image of protesters stopping to pray in front of armed police officers. Oh yeah, I forgot they’re Muslim, so they are evil by default. Right?
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