Hush, Hush

Some people like to have their noses in everyones' business, and other people keep to theirselves. For reasons I'm not sure, being called a "know-it-all" is a insult. In years back it was looked down upon to look around and snoop in other peoples business. Todays standard is different because everyone is so for our amendments, ecspecially the first one, the freedom of speech. The same people who were elected to make sure our rights were upheld began trying to censor tv, internet, music in an effort to cover up the things they don't want the masses seeing. Wikileaks became the gateway, relasing the things the goverment didnt want us to see. So the question is should we know everything, as Wikileaks believes, or do states have rights to keep secrets.

Wikileaks is considered a "whistleblower" website, a whistleblower being someone who knows about illegal activites or wrong doings of the government. The website's intention was to inform everyone on what actually happened with events in the middle east. In 2007, the website relased a video titled "Collateral Murder" which showed video of a US helicopter killing a group of people is Baghdad, killing civilians. The news was report, but the US claimed that all they fired upon were the insurgents, and they were not sure how the civilians died. When the news hit home, the governments War on Terror was up for question and it left people wondering what we were doing there. The troops seemed hungry for some trigger time, repeatedly asking permission to engage the target. They even shot and killed a man and badly injured his two sons who were trying to recover the dead bodies from the street. The people of the united states were upset that the goverment lied and attempted to cover up what had happened. From a local report to national news, people want to see the story how it happened, not interpreted or covered up to make it look like we are the good guys. I stand for that but what happens when the people do know it all.

The big issue to anyone going against wikileaks, is the issue of national security. Should the government cover up their wrong doings?No. Should the government try to hide the brutality of war from the people?No. Should they cover it up because the contents inside is a threat to national security? Well of course. Like I said, Wikileaks has good intensions, but when they post news on the internet and the wrong person gets his hands on it, you begin to understand why there is government cover ups and they go to such lengths to hid them. Im sure there has been a few events through out history that has been kept on the hush for fears that people may panic. They could get their hands on information of nuclear weapons that then another country gets and buids it themselves. Now an enemy of the United States would have weapons of mass destrcution that could kill millions because some pissed off computer geek believe "everyone deserves to know". Yes everyone should learn something new everyday but when millions of lives are at stake and the well-being of our earth as a whole is at risk, I believe some things are better left unsaid.

Sources:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/05/wikileaks-exposes-video-o_n_525569.html

wikileaks.org

www.nydailynews.com