It should be Assange arresting all the governments and their cronies. They have it the wrong way round.
Wikileaks has revealed, with concrete evidence, how so-called "democratic" governments are little more than criminal cartels who are happy to incarcerate those who seek to lift the veil on their activities. There is no difference between China or the US, the House of Saud or the UK, Burma or Germany. Each of these Mafia-like organisations recognises themselves in one another. This is no surprise to them, only to us suckers who vote for them (if they allow us this crumb of illusory comfort). We are obligated to do something to remove these criminals - but what? It seems difficult when they have convinced us that they run the planet. However, the Wikileaks approach looks a good option. If you pummel government with evidence of their own lies they will retrench to their safest ground, as all the paranoid will. Once retrenched, with a smaller (if trusted) footprint, they are more vulnerable. This pressure has to be sustained to work (that is why the leaks are let out slowly). Eventually the circle of trust will be far smaller than the ring of threat that surrounds it. Assange is quite brilliant, although this is basic anarchist theory. However, like a cornered animal, the government will, when the pressure is at its most intense, be vicious and dangerous. The seizure of Asssange is symptomatic of this and thus evidence they are on the run. I imagine Assange might be quietly pleased by how this is playing out. However, the question now is how to push the advantage? If that doesn't happen the veil will again be lowered. But if the attack is pursued the power of these criminal elites will evaporate in the harsh light of day. The next few days, perhaps weeks, will be critical. Any vestige of freedom depends on it. Best Simon Simon Biggs [email protected] [email protected] Skype: simonbiggsuk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ Research Professor edinburgh college of art http://www.eca.ac.uk/ Creative Interdisciplinary Research in CoLlaborative Environments http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice http://www.elmcip.net/ Centre for Film, Performance and Media Arts http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/film-performance-media-arts > From: "xDxD.vs.xDxD" <[email protected]> > Reply-To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity > <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 23:58:16 +0100 > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: [NetBehaviour] arrested > > Julian Assange arrested > http://julianassangearrested.tumblr.com/ > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour Edinburgh College of Art (eca) is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC009201 _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
