They were discussing the recent leak of the gun camera footage of an Apache attack helicopter gunning down people on the street in Iraq with 30mm rounds. Two of whom were Reuters journalists. The host said “what would you say to an American citizen who came up to you and said ‘my son is in the military, fighting in Iraq, and all your serving to do is increase the hatred of honest Iraqis towards our force for good’”

He responded (this is all paraphrased) “The people in Baghdad, in Iraq, in Afghanistan they don’t need to see the video. They see it every day. We’re not changing their minds at all. It will only change the perception of the people who are paying for it all. That’s our hope.”

Video link for the feed customers.

Good stuff. I expect this poor man will either meet an abrupt, violent end to his life or rot in jail somewhere for a long time so powerful governments can muzzle him.

We need more like him.

I, unfortunately, am broke. However, I will do what I can, and spread the word around.

“ … serves as an uncensorable and untraceable depository for the truth, able to publish documents that the courts may prevent newspapers and broadcasters from being able to touch. ”
— In praise of… Wikileaks – The Guardian, October 20, 2009

I’m sure there are many in goverments and businesses around the world that would love to see this website shuttered because they expose ugly truths that otherwise would not see the light of day. They’ve been involved in some pretty heavy-duty shit.

A copy of Standard Operating Procedures for Camp Delta – the protocol of the U.S. Army at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp – dated March 2003 was released on the Wikileaks website on 7 November 2007.[42] The document, named “gitmo-sop.pdf”, is also mirrored at The Guardian.[43] Its release revealed some of the restrictions placed over detainees at the camp, including the designation of some prisoners as off-limits to the International Committee of the Red Cross, something that the U.S. military had in the past repeatedly denied.[44] emphasis mine

So, they exposed a lie the US goverment told. They have faced legal challenge after legal challenge, and one of their spokepeople’s houses was raided in Germany. They are considered very dangerous. Knowledge, after all, is power. And power is dangerous to those who jealously hoard their own power over others.