The Outlaws Among Us -- Regarding Julian Assange, Wikileaks

The existence and popularity of Wikileaks draws its power from the following:

1. An intensively active international intelligence community;
2. A general lack of transparency in the operations of government; and
3. A general suspicion held by John Q. Smith and co. that there is a serious disconnect somewhere on all levels of government from local to international between Right Knowing and Wrong Doing. (or maybe the suspicion is that Right Knowing and Wrong Doing are connected?)

Give a dog a bone and if the dog's not hungry or bones are not for dogs, then the bone lays there unused and unneeded. But if the dog bites, that's proof the bone was just the right thing. Wikileaks is that bone---and there's voracity in the gnawing by its intended audience. Is there any question as to the reason why?

Undeniable that Wikileaks creates apparent satisfaction of a particular need for a particularly large portion of the global population---the need for information; about one's government, which is essentially information about one's self. A resource like this is inevitable in an Information Age where war and hostile foreign policy are substantiated by claims derived from an intelligence community that puts all