By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 19th, 2010
There’s currently a lot of wild-eyed screaming from the corporate media about Wikileaks and its founder, Julian Assange. Thus we at the American Spark feel it’s important to let Assange speak for himself–a simple courtesy that isn’t being allowed by any of the corporate talking heads.
We offer readers a number of essays on government and corporate secrecy written in 2006 by Julian Assange, to let you judge the man and his mission for yourselves.
Our copy of these writings came from Cryptome, which itself is a fine, Wikileaks-like revealer of secrets that your would-be masters don’t want you to know.
We also offer another website apparently owned by Assange.
Below, the Spark reproduces quotes from some of Julian Assange’s writings:
Sun 31 Dec 2006: The non-linear effects of leaks on unjust systems of governance
“The more secretive or unjust an organization is, the more leaks induce fear and paranoia in its leadership and planning coterie. This must result in minimization of efficient internal communications mechanisms…and consequent system-wide cognitive decline, resulting in decreased ability to hold onto power as the environment demands adaption.
“Hence in a world where leaking is easy, secretive or unjust systems are non-linearly hit relative to open, just systems.
“Since unjust systems, by their nature induce opponents, and in many places barely have the upper hand, mass leaking leaves them exquisitely vulnerable to those who seek to replace them with more open forms of governance.
“Only revealed injustice can be answered–for man to do anything intelligent he has to know what’s actually going on.”
State and Terrorist Conspiracies
November 10, 2006
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul this unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of statesmanship.
(President Theodore Roosevelt)
While you here do snoring lie,
Open-eyed conspiracy
His time doth take.
(The Tempest–Ariel at II, i)
Introduction
“To radically shift regime behavior we must think clearly and boldly–for if we have learned anything, it is that regimes do not want to be changed.
“We must think beyond those who have gone before us, and discover technological changes that embolden us with ways to act in which our forebears could not.
“Firstly we must understand what aspect of government or neo-corporatist behavior we wish to change or remove.
“Secondly we must develop a way of thinking about this behavior that is strong enough carry us through the mire of politically distorted language, and into a position of clarity.
“Finally must use these insights to inspire within us and others a course of ennobling, and effective, action.
Authoritarian power is maintained by conspiracy
Conspiracy, Conspire: make secret plans jointly to commit a harmful act–working together to bring about a particular result, typically to someone’s detriment. ORIGIN late Middle English : from Old French conspirer, from Latin conspirare agree, plot, from con- together with spirare breathe.
The best [political] party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation.
(Lord Halifax)
Where details are known as to the inner workings of authoritarian regimes, we see conspiratorial interactions among the political elite–not merely for preferment or favor within the regime, but as the primary planning methodology behind maintaining or strengthening authoritarian power.
Authoritarian regimes give rise to forces which oppose them by pushing against the individual and collective will to freedom, truth and self-realization.
Plans which assist authoritarian rule, once discovered, induce resistance. Hence these plans are concealed by successful authoritarian powers.
This is enough to define their behavior as conspiratorial.
Thus it happens in matters of state–for knowing afar off (which it is only given a prudent man to do) the evils that are brewing, they are easily cured. But when, for want of such knowledge, they are allowed to grow until everyone can recognize them, there is no longer any remedy to be found.
(The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli [1469-1527])
