Julian Assange vs. The World: Views on Justice and Morality

 When morality is decided only with those with the power to enforce justice, justice becomes a perversion, just as absolute power corrupts absolutely. To say that right and wrong can only by those with the power to do so, is to remove all intrinsic meaning from "justice" save for the exchange of power itself. Assuming the exchange of power to be the rightful appropriator of justice as the statements condemning Julian Assange's actions explicitly connote, morality is reduced to no more than the primitive imposing of the ruling party's interests by force, and with the case of the United States, military budget, technology, strength, and strategic authority.

Particularly since Julian Assange's leaks have targeted corruption dealing predominantly with the U.S. military-industrial complex, to write off his role as a mere "actor" and his actions as "wrong", is to demonstrate a disturbingly superficial conception of human ethics, as well as a pitifully naive understanding of the United States government, their actions in the Middle East, and impact of our military presence globally. These are issues that need to be addressed, and our own government failed to address them. 

Julian Assange is not a criminal or a saint, he is an inevitability, the natural response to a nagging need for transparency in governments and corporations worldwide. If he did not create Wikileaks, someone else would have, so I would further note that scapegoating him only demonstrates your ignorance of human nature, particularly regarding the reactive nature of humanity. The same type of vigilantism that created Wikileaks, that created Occupy Wall Street, that created Anonymous, that created the Ron Paul movement and the Tea Party, that created every single fictional and factual superhero that we have had throughout history. They are all projections of human nature, and part of the great jigsaw of humanity that we all are part of, down to the core of our very DNA.