We have seen the damages and the repairs that Wikileaks' revelations have caused to governments and their people. We have witnessed ties break, leaders tried… Pandora's Box has been opened in the most syndicated way. And so the question is thrown: is the world better off with Wikileaks?
I think temporarily the world is better off with Wikileaks. Putting everything into perspective, we can count by our fingers the leaders that have been true to their word inside and outside meeting halls. It's time our leaders learn that we won't take any more of their lies and their "secret" dealings with other leaders on either side of the table. We have our eyes on you.
That said, time has to come that we, the citizens, and our leaders has to install the trust back to ourselves, to other people, to society. This is not utopia; this is simply a society that's tired of the deceit, bickering, and the lies and wants a way out: a more honest and understanding society for all.
In that time Wikileaks is not needed, and like any other phenomenon, it will die a natural death.
But for the moment, if our leaders can't give us transparent governments, then we have to step up to the plate to make things better for ourselves. Change is difficult. The evils that Wikileaks is causing at the moment are only the fruits of the deceit and the lies that some of our leaders have sown. Wikileaks is not the perpetrator; some of our leaders are. Wikileaks is a mere catalyst of change; we have to realize this. If not Wikileaks, then there will be someone, something out there that will assume the role. And I'm sure it will be greeted with the same protest and the same support that Wikileaks is receiving at the moment.
Unless trust to ourselves, to our people, and to society is restored, we, the people, with the help of Wikileaks or not, has to police the ranks of our leaders and ourselves!
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
(Edmund Burke)
