Julian Assange: What Will Happen Next?
#15 Julian Assange
The known hacker and confidential file leaker, Julian Assange, brought transparency to the world by leaking top secret files of high level diplomats, Presidents, Kings, and militants. Reliable sources would send Julian documents that would be posted on Wikileaks. Wikileaks was launched in 2006, and has changed the world. Now Julian is living with the consequences that come along with transparency.
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Julian Assange
The known hacker and confidential file leaker, Julian Assange, brought transparency to the world by leaking top secret files of high level diplomats, Presidents, Kings, and militants. Reliable sources would send Julian documents that would be posted on Wikileaks. Wikileaks was launched in 2006, and has changed the world. Now Julian is living with the consequences that come along with transparency.
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Revolution
Julian Assange's Wikileaks is reportedly the cause of revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt. In Tunisia leaks of corruption were reported about President Ben Ali, which resulted him being overthrown. Next was Egypt. Julian leaked military secrets the country had been holding from the public. Julian believes his leak led the Egyptian revolution.
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Man of the Year
Times Magazine displayed Julian Assange as Man of the Year for his play in creating transparency for civilians towards their government. Whether Julian's actions were positive or negative, his actions created a lot of headlines.
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Bradley Manning
Bradley Manning, soldier, was put into solitary confinement for 23 hours a day. His prison sentence was put into place because he leaked confidential government documents to Julian Assange. Manning was accused of stealing files from a military database and sending them to Julian. It is rumored that Manning has been tortured in prison and has been under suicide watch.
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Saudi King
Julian Assange revealed secret dialogues between the US and the Saudi Arabian King. They talked about, "cutting off the head of the snake," referring to Iran and starting a war on the country.
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Afghan Diary
91,731 documents were leaked by Wikileaks about the Afghan War, aka the Afghan War Diary. The leaked pages included names of informants, civilian death toll in the Afghan War, child prostitution, and suicide bombing tabs.
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Afghan Diaries Continued
Leaked were US Military documents about Osama Bin Ladin's finacial advisor purchasing rockets from North Korea. The documents also revealed Iran's assistance to the Taliban, although Iran denies supporting Taliban militants and how Pakistan Inter-Services Intelligence agency is an accomplice to the Taliban.
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Iraq War Video
A 2007 video was leaked by Julian Assange's Wikileaks on a shooting during the Iraq War. The footage showed militants on a helicopter shooting at civilians and children. They mistook cameras as weapons. The release of the video created a CIA investigation which harassed Julian and his decision to release the controversial video.
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Swiss Banking
A former banker, Rudolf Elmer, from Sweden, passed on a list of 2,000 clients to Wikileaks. The bank clients were all suspected of tax evasion. Elmer was fired because he provided evidence to his boss of these financial practices. Elmer wanted to expose the clients' actions because he believed it was "damaging our society."
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Funding
Wikileaks lost 95% of their funding because PayPal, MasterCard, Visa, and Western Union prevented their customers from donating money to Wikileaks. Julian Assange considered shutting WikiLeaks down because of the blockade of funds. It cost Julian 500k, per year, to run Wikileaks. The only reason Wikileaks was able to keep running was through saved revenues from past years. To work around the blockade visit http://shop.wikileaks.org/donate and find ways to donate from your country.
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Sweden
From the UK, Julian Assange was to be extradited to Sweden for a court case, where he had a European Arrest Warrant. The process to get Julian to Sweden has taken about two years, in which he had been sentenced to house arrest in England. Two Swedish women have accused Julian of sexual assault. It is believed that this particular case has been used to keep Julian under lock down, while the US builds a case to extradite him to the US.
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The Assange Show
Being under house arrest, Julian Assange started filming The Julian Assange Show. Julian conducts interviews with politicians, presidents, and other intellectuals via Skype. You can watch his show through youtube.com/RT
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Political Asylum
With fears of Sweden extraditing Julian Assange to the United States, Julian puts his fate into his own hands. He has gone to the Ecuadorian embassy, in England, and has requested political asylum, under the Universal Declaration Of Human Rights. Over a month ago Julian interviewed Ecuador's President, Rafael Correa, on his RT show. With that recent connection, there may be hope that his political asylum will be granted. Ecuador has been put in a difficult position, and is now considering the consequences of the US, if they decide to allow Julian into their country. Below is the interview Julian had with Correa.
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A Decline
As Julian Assange stays put in the Ecuadorian embassy, the British police served Julian an extradition notice. Julian refused to leave the embassy, and has ignored the request to surrender himself.
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As The World Waits
Julian Assange waits in the Ecuadorian Embassy, hoping for an acceptance of political asylum. If rejected, Julian will be all over the press, with a US court case that will probably end his life. All we can do is watch what will happen next.
