Wikileaks Killed 1300 People And Counting
WIKILEAKS has killed 1,300 people. OK, not killed but led to their deaths. Not our opinion but that of fame-hungry Julian Assange, who has undone the brilliant site by steering it towards an anti-USA agenda and media prominence.
He claims that Wikileaks swung the Kenyan 2007 elections. There was much bloodshed:
“1,300 people were eventually killed, and 350,000 were displaced. That was a result of our leak.”
Well…
“On the other hand, the Kenyan people had a right to that information and 40,000 children a year die of malaria in Kenya. And many more die of money being pulled out of Kenya, and as a result of the Kenyan shilling being debased.”
Spoken like a true hard-nosed capitalist. As he said:
“WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical.”
The dead will doubtless salute the ideal…
UPDATE: Now Assange denies it.
Posted: 3rd, December 2010 | In: Politicians Comments (40) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
December 20th, 2010 at 7:14 pm
Well today I read anyone that wants to download porn in the UK will need to opt out of ISP’s blocking these sites and next we will need to opt out just so we can read a site like this one where people are able to express themselves and are able to say a word against the powers that be.
Also read today about a 12 year old school boy in the UK was arrested at school because he posted on facebook to ask people to join him in a demonstration against his youth club being closed down but this should come as no surprise since the UK police want to stop all student protests when university fees rise by 300% and god know how many more will be murdered like Ian Tomlinson before the year is out.
12 people where arrested today on charges of being terrorists but as usual none will be charged because our policemen are making it up as they go along to keep themselves in overtime.
Google ‘Holly Greig’ if you want to see how members of the justice system are able to rape a little girl and despite a million people knowing about the case are still able to block the investigation and silence the defence lawyer.
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/official-greig-green-petition/
If you come to the UK then don’t take pictures at the airports else the police will smash your face in and take your camera because we are all terrorists now.
Go wikileaks the people are behind you and it’s so bad in the UK that even Iran has reported to UK to the UN for the violations committed against the British public.
Wake up people and stop acting like cowards for today they come for me but tomorrow it will be you!
December 10th, 2010 at 9:07 am
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December 9th, 2010 at 9:29 am
If governments have or take the right to sneak in our privacy to protect us against their so called terrorism
Why should we not have the right to see what they are up to to terrorise us with their on going lies? How sickening is it when you are being constantly lied to
What does it make us if we accept this?
Do they (our leaders)really think we are not already knowing and seeing trough their constant lies and weird psychical terrorism related excuses to take our freedom of judgement
December 9th, 2010 at 7:11 am
Wikileaks is making big news because it it gives the lazy big media a ready-made story they can feature. At it’s best it is news unfiltered. but the more we see Julian Assange the more people will question him and his motives. He and not Wikileaks has become the story – and that is selling a great website short…
December 9th, 2010 at 2:18 am
I would have to see the author’s source. I was under the impression mr. assange and wikileaks had expressly stated their casualty count was “as far as they knew” zero. There is an astonishing amount of pressure from the government to take action on mr. assange, however, it is not clear at this point that he has violated any law (except have sex without a condom–a felony in sweden). these events are playing out like a movie script; most of the media is just another actor in the drama. independent credible voices are incredibly valuable and increasingly endangered.
December 8th, 2010 at 6:55 pm
This “article” is obviously biased. Stop wasting people’s time.
December 8th, 2010 at 3:46 pm
The important questions we need to ask now are not about Mr. Assange’s moral qualities, or his motives, or whether his actions were constructive or destructive. Julian Assange, after all, is just one person, just as flawed and mortal as the rest of us. It is the technologies we use, in their present very flawed implementations, that have made these or similar information losses inevitable. If the perpetrator had not been Mr. Assange, it would have been someone else, in some different but related form, taking advantage of the current massive insecurity of electronic records, which is a change of circumstances in the world.
The useful questions now are about how we manage to cope with a world where no one — not even government — is guaranteed to have any privacy. In the aftermath of this drastic loss of confidential information, safeguards will of course be put into place to prevent another incident of this particular kind. But no security measure available in the near-term future can change the fact that our lives and our businesses are increasingly stored and available online, where their vulnerability to attack is far higher than they were with the older forms of paper record-keeping.
December 8th, 2010 at 2:50 pm
You need to cite sources for the claims you are making.
The people that fight for freedom don’t fight for Wikileaks, stop confusing stories; if the information that Wikileaks releases leads to people taking up arms and overthrowing their governments it would be because the government, which is supposed to be a tool of the people, failed by using secrecy to hide their actions.
December 8th, 2010 at 11:26 am
Now Assange changes his mind:
http://www.anorak.co.uk/267577/media/julian-assange-says-wikileaks-killed-1300-kenyans-then-denies-it.html
December 8th, 2010 at 9:44 am
Kill us all? This website is clearly an ignorant one. Assange brings the truth, embrace it.
December 8th, 2010 at 9:22 am
debi, you said “you are followers of a crazy person. are you okay with that?”
Do you remember reading of the Jonestown Massacre in November 1978? Jim Jones, an American, formed a cult and had followers who believed him. On November 18, 1978, 909 of his members committed suicide by taking cyanide on his instructions. All together 918 people died that day, as others were murdered by some of the members. One-third of those victims were children who were also given the cyanide.
That man was crazy as a loony bird but people followed him.
December 8th, 2010 at 8:59 am
I’m certainly not afraid of Julian Assange getting us all killed…it could be worse….we could have all been cut off at the knees..and then what would I have done with my new wellies?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8187505/WikiLeaks-Britain-feared-Colonel-Gaddafi-could-cut-us-off-at-the-knees-unless-Lockerbie-bomber-was-freed.html
December 8th, 2010 at 8:52 am
BrilliantMind, you are not so brilliant – carefully read again what I said in sarcasm!
December 8th, 2010 at 8:33 am
I am amazed at some of the posters’ belief that they are so entitled. @I says (s)he salutes Assange for releasing the info and what people do with it afterwards is their decision. I compare that to putting a loaded gun in a child’s hand and telling him to go play. @Mike says 1300 lives is “the cost of truth.” He’ll make a good tyrant one day. @BrilliantMind made a fantastic analogy. If WikiLeaks started putting all of your skeletons in the street…. would you be so gung-ho to say, “Well ya know, they’re right. I’m totally a douche and everyone has the right to know”? Bias goes both ways, people.
December 8th, 2010 at 7:50 am
shame on all of you who say the right to freedom of the press supercedes the right to the freedom of the 1300 people who died, and the 350,0000 people who were displaced as a result of this persons right to publish. the press used to be better than this. they used to weigh the right to publish against the right to personal safety. those of you who are advocating his rights, need to know that he trampled on the rights of those who are now dead, DEAD, because of his actions, he is a vile man, who did not care for the rights of the individual. this person only wanted fame, and did not care about harm to others, or to countries. 1300 people dead, and that’s just the beginning, and you are okay with that. and, he is bragging about this. you are followers of a crazy person. are you okay with that?
December 8th, 2010 at 7:44 am
Elaborate 13:
“You should try some actual journalism here rather than picking and choosing excerpts without providing context.”
You mean like the Wikileaks leaked cables, which are drip fed out are proper journalism?
December 8th, 2010 at 7:14 am
freedom isnt free, being in america isnt free, information isnt free, computers to see/write such info isnt free, giant wooden ships arent free, landing in the world wasnt free, buying the guns for the new werent free. so how is the truth free?
December 8th, 2010 at 7:00 am
This is more of a smear campaign than anything else. What was reported in Kenya that led to the bloodshed? How did that influence the people? Which is better? A corrupt politician power extorting the money out of the nation and doing nothing for the nation, or the people fighting for a better leader. If the people are willing to fight than you cannot blame wikileaks. Nor can you just randomly quote what Assange says out of context to manipulate what he says and means.
If you want to pull off a better smear campaign than do it and maybe that’ll change my mind about him else don’t write rubbish like this with nothing to back it up.
December 8th, 2010 at 4:42 am
You should try some actual journalism here rather than picking and choosing excerpts without providing context. You play it off as if Assange didn’t care or see some greater good as a result of the leak. Whether he is right or wrong is beyond me ultimately, but at least attempt to dig deeper rather than furthering your obvious bias with some neat and tidy smug remarks.
December 8th, 2010 at 3:29 am
The people of Kenya are the only ones that should stand in judgement of Assange, assuming everything said here is accurate. Gonna go ahead and guess their beef is with, and will continue to be with, the people whose actions were Leaked about.
–Ain’t saying WikiLeaks has not done stuff that is quite probably illegal under US law (IANAL)–
December 8th, 2010 at 2:57 am
This person is a moron.
What I don’t get is who reads this site?
December 8th, 2010 at 2:07 am
The truth hurts. The cold truth can be deadly.
December 8th, 2010 at 1:55 am
@BrilliantMind,
Of course I don’t want my secrets exposed but I am a private citizen not a state. I have a right to my privacy. There are no international laws for state privacy. And if it even came to some one exposing my lies of course I would not like it because I would be exposed as a liar and as a cheat. I would have no defense other than to try to stop that person by force even though it would be unethical and wrong of me. That’s just what is happening now. There are no laws to prosecute wikileaks so they are being forced to stop. So I say expose the unethical even though it might some day be my turn. That’s the basic tenet under which all laws work. Plus, there are laws against hacking but wikileaks did not commit a crime in obtaining the cables. They were handed the cables in violation of no law.
December 8th, 2010 at 1:54 am
It’s nobody’s right to keep secrets.
December 8th, 2010 at 1:49 am
I like how everyone consistently tells us that Julian is killing souls by leaking this information. People are dying because the words/acts were said/done in the first place. Trying to defend lies only breeds more contempt and kills more people in the long run.Soon enough governments will have to learn how to act like REAL human beings and stop lying/conniving/thieving all for their self-interest. Maybe they will eventually get the hint that truth is the only reliable foundation for anything, including anything in regard to national politics/economics.
December 8th, 2010 at 1:37 am
Stop trying to blame wiki leaks, Danial arab moi was a murder and stole millions of dollars, killed his own son in law and tortured thousands of people. I was born and raised in Kenya every election was tense, politicians would use university students to riot and kill and do stupid stuff and using the whole tribes thing. kenya is still driving by Tribes and is very tense during election so stop blaming a site that brought out the truth and see what is happening.
December 8th, 2010 at 1:07 am
Make sure to research the facts around the 2007 Kenyan election.
Such as who were the candidates? Did they have any special political, social or familial connections to anyone important in the USA?
Which candidate won?
What happened after the election?
Did the election results change following what happened after the election?
Are there any remaining connections between the political regime in Kenya and any special political, social or familial connections people in the regime have?
These are very important questions.
December 8th, 2010 at 12:58 am
I don’t think the morality of this is black and white. Imagine if you knew a candidate was manipulating an election, and you could prove it. If you stay silent, then democracy fails, and a likely malevolent ruler comes to power. But if you publish the proof, then there will be riots, and people will die. Which is the lesser evil?
December 8th, 2010 at 12:41 am
If 1,300 people is the cost of truth, then so be it!!!
December 8th, 2010 at 12:40 am
ummm….you forgot to explain HOW.
nice sources too
December 8th, 2010 at 12:34 am
@ Cheryl, I don’t think I’m an idiot for wanting to know something the government tried to cover up (such as the Apache helicopter incident in Afghanistan). If the general public is aware of horrors like that, then there will be more of an effort to reduce them. If they’re covered up successfully, then they’ll just keep happening and keep being covered up.
I realize that there is plenty of stuff out there that I don’t want to know, but to say that I’m an idiot for wanting to know something the government wanted covered up is just wrong.