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The best type of government comes from a government that is scrutinized by the people when they have true information about our governments, major corporations, other power actors in society.

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Julian Assange
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 3
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The Obama administration has attempted to prosecute more journalists and journalistic sources under the same Espionage Act she was being investigated under in all previous presidencies combined.
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To keep a person ignorant is to place them in a cage.
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If you see the rhetoric from coming out of the Democrats is that they're pro-civil liberties, and an important part of civil liberties is respect for the First Amendment and the rule of law, and that has broken down under the Obama administration, and Hillary Clinton was part of that process.
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WikiLeaks is really a litmus test for those people who walk the talk in the media. How much will they really follow their protestations to be brave publishers, and how much do they really want to lick the boots of power? Well, you can tell by their engagement with us and what they do.
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If wars can be started by lies, they can be stopped by truth.
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In the justice system, we say there must be open justice where there is to be justice. The judged while trying must themselves be tried before the public.
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What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend to shape our perceptions of how war should and should not be conducted? Can it shape our perceptions of who should be conducting war and in what manner? And the answer to that is a clear yes.
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Power is a thing of perception. They don't need to be able to kill you. They just need you to think they are able to kill you
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This movement is not about the destruction of law, but the construction of law.
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Hillary Clinton represents a whole network of people and a network of relationships with particular states.
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During the period of house arrest, I had an electronic manacle around my leg for 24 hours a day, and for someone who has tried to give others liberty all their adult life, that is absolutely intolerable.
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I'm not a big fan of regulation: anyone who likes freedom of the press can't be.
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Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship.
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Which country is suffering from too much freedom of speech? Name it, is there one?
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Over the last fifteen years, every single person the U.S. has tried to extradite from Sweden has been extradited, and they refuse to provide a guarantee [that won't happen].
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The rhetoric is pretending, constantly pretending that I have been charged with a crime, and never mentioning that I have been already previously cleared, never mentioning that the woman herself says that the police made it up.
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The aim of Wikileaks is to achieve just reform around the world and do it through the mechanism of transparency.
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Society develops a type of self-censorship, with the knowledge that surveillance exists - a self-censorship that is even expressed when people communicate with each other privately.
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Here then is the truth about the Truth the Truth is not bridge, sturdy to every step, a marvel of bound planks and supports from the known into the unknown, but a surging sea of smashed wood, flotsam and drowning sailors.
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If you look at most definitions, a god is omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent. In particular, god knows when you are doing something that you shouldn't be doing and whether you are playing according to god's rules.
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