Ralph Waldo Emerson Revisited!

Please forgive me, if I wax poetic, but Julian Assange has brought the poet in me, despite the harassment of our, and many other governments: Could it be that he is now the savior of our "democracy"?"By the rude bridge that arched the flood, their flag to April's breeze unfurled, here once the embattled farmers stood, and fired the shot heard round the world." First of all, the rape allegations against him have proven to be totally absurd! Claes Borgstroem, the lawyer for the two women whose complaints of sexual assault triggered Julian Assange's arrest, said his clients had been assaulted twice: first physically, before being "sacrificed" to a malevolent online attack. The women were having "a very tough time", he said. A wealth of hostile material attacking the two women has appeared on the internet since August, when they took their complaints to the police. Their right to anonymity has been abandoned online, where enraged bloggers have uploaded dossiers of personal photographs, raked through their CV's and tweets, and accused them of orchestrating a CIA-inspired honey-trap operation. These online rumors were a convenient way for Assange to divert suspicion from the actual allegations, the women's lawyer said. There is nothing wrong with their reputation , and they have done nothing wrong in going to the police. What they are going through is unfair and absurd. He questioned whether the women would have pressed charges had they known in advance how their reputations would be attacked. Nevertheless, our US politicians demand a trial on espionage charges. The likelihood of the founder of "Wikileaks" is facing possible extradition to the US has strengthened with a number of right-wing "senior" American politicians, who claim that Julian Assange has breached the "Espionage" act. Joe Lieberman, the head of the Senate's Homeland Security Committee, claimed that the "leaks" organized by Julian Assange and his associates were "serious violations of the Espionage Act". US State Department spokesman Philip Crowley added: What Wikileaks has done were "serious violations of the Espionage Act". The so-called Justice Department is under intense pressure , especially from the Republicans, to pursue Mr. Assange to the pits of Hell. A European diplomat added: "They have got to do something, or face savage criticism." Although the US authorities have as yet made no official request for his extradition, informal discussions have been held between American and Swedish officials to that end. Mr. Assange's London solicitor Mark Stephens said that being sent to Sweden from the UK would make his client extremely vulnerable. His Swedish lawyer has said that it would be quite unsafe for Julian in Sweden at this time. Diplomatic sources say that it is not clear whether the US authorities will be able to prosecute Mr. Assange under the Espionage Act. They point out that whereas it is illegal for government officials with security clearance to leak classified documents to Wikileaks, it is not clear whether it is illegal for the website to be made public.
Nevertheless, the US Department of State Cleared the Wikileaks Documents. Though, for the last nine days, 250,000 cables of the US State Department were leaked to "wikileaks" , a mysterious non-governmental organization which purports to publish classified documents, while guaranteeing anonymity to the providers, the scandals covered a variety of topics of interest to the American public and government, from China's interest in the re-unification of Korea, to Iran's purchase of missiles from North Korea, to Pakistani General Kayani wondering whether the US would support him in a military coup. Oddly enough, there are no scandals of any significance from this source, involving Israel or any other American ally. Despite public perceptions, Wikileaks does not make the material it receives available directly to the public, but sends the documents to newspapers, which decide what news is fit to print. Wikileaks has only posted 623 of the 250,000 documents they claim to have released to their website. Neither the New York Times, the Guardian, or the other newspapers apparently in possession of these materials have published them either. Worse, these 623 'leaks' were apparently cleared by the State Department itself.