Sunday, August 15, 2010

Punishing the WikiLeaker Misses the Point


by Eric Margolis
Toronto Sun

"George Orwell wrote: "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."

A true journalist's job is to expose government wrongdoing and propaganda, skewer hypocrites, and speak for those with no voice. And wage war against mankind's two worst scourges: Nationalism and religious bigotry. Not to lick the boots of government.

I've always felt kinship for free thinkers, rebels, and heretics.

That's why I am drawn to the plight of Pte. Bradley Manning who apparently believed Ernest Hemingway's dictum: "Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime."....."

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