Awesome news: Wikileaks plans to release 4000 secret Israeli documents within the next 6 months!
Reiterating what we covered in yesterday’s post, people who reveal abuses by governments and other powerful groups are helping to create a more just civilization.
Considering how Israel has consistently violated international law and human rights for decades, these leaks are sure to help ease the plight of the Palestinian people.
As more embarrassing and damning information comes to light, the true face of Israeli Apartheid will be laid bare for the world to see. Then, paralleling the world’s struggle against Apartheid in South Africa, global political pressures will mount until these Israeli injustices ultimately cease. Viva Palestina!
In other whistle-blowing news, Wikileaks’s entire stash of cables has been leaked in Norway. To date, Wikileaks has only ‘slow-leaked’ a few thousand of the cables. Now, perhaps, the flood gates will be entirely opened.
We should be crowdsourcing these piles of classified documents. Open them all to the public, allow discussions and ratings for every one. Let the masses filter out the most relevant information faster and more effectively than the handful of individuals doing it now.
While such a move might be irresponsible for journalists to undertake, it would be a great thing for transparency and freedom of information. Power to the people!
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Update: Thanks to rudetrooper for pointing out that the cables are already being collaboratively sorted on reddit – http://www.reddit.com/r/leakspin (and probably other places too)
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Tags: cablegate, crowdsource, israel, transparency, wikileaks
