Weblog #6: Student’s Choice
WikiLeaks Analysis: The right to know
In the perfect world, if you didn’t do anything wrong, then you have nothing to hide. If we, the people, trusted our leaders to represent us, and we are paying them to work for us, shouldn’t we have the right to know what they are doing with our trust and moneys?
After the WikiLeaks website revealed some “inconvenient” documents, it seems that our leaders think that we can’t handle the truth about how they do their jobs. They are as afraid of the truth as roaches running out from the light. Now they say that WikiLeaks is a threat to National Security and our troops are
I believed that we, the people, need to know exactly what our leaders are doing in order to make the right decision when we vote, and this is a basic principle for democracy. We should support and embrace outlets like WikiLeaks for opening our eyes and demand to see the rest of the iceberg, no matter how bad it is.
Only now, we learn about the 'The Iraq War Logs' and the 'Afghan War Diaries' which are clear evidence of war crimes and human rights violations committed in the name of freedom.
In London, Steve Field, a spokesman for British Prime Minister David Cameron, said "it's important that governments are able to operate on the basis of confidentiality of information."
In conclusion: They don’t want us to know what’s going on.
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