WikiLeaks Outrage Creats "A very middle class enemy of the State"

Here is the article that I will be referring to in this blog.

It is also the article that perfectly put into context how silly this WikiLeak witch hunt really is.

Because Sarah Harrison has a relationship with Julian Assange, mastermind behind WikiLeaks, she now fears that if she returns to the United Kingdom she will be detained and interrogated. And for what? Being an activist and spreading information?

"Activism is not terrorism" Sarah Harrison said in response to being asked about her exile from the UK by the British government. She feels she has been "spat out" and betrayed by the country she called home. Now she is called an enemy of the state.

Harrison escorted Assange to Moscow after he leaked several eye-opening United States and other Western nation's secrets. She remained by his side for forty days until Russian Presiden Putin finally granted him temporary asylum in the country, meaning that he would not be sent back to the United States in custody. Harrison however, was not given that same asylum and relocated to Germany.

Harrison is a firm believer that publishing and whistleblowing should not be seen as any sort of crime, let alone terrorism. Yet, under UK's Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act, Harrison would likely be detained, her computer seized, and interrogated. What Harrison was doing was not terrorism at all. Her posts and thoughts behind posting on WikiLeaks was an act designed to persuade her government, and other governments of the world, to behave differently, which is activism. Not terrorism.

However, it seems, that because the UK and other governments were so embarrassed by WikiLeaks it has become their mission to seek out all those involved and destroy them. Never mind the centuries of freedom that some of these governments claim to offer, when it is their pride on the line, all bets are off. If journalists are not allowed to report on how governments are behaving incorrectly then there is no need for a freedom of press act in any constitution because limiting the press in any way is a clear breach of their so called freedom.

Even though Harrison is the subject of this modern day witch hunt, she claims that she would do it all again in a heartbeat. And for that, I praise her. The world needs more strong men and women to stand up to the wrong doings of our massive governments. Without these people all of us will soon regret the day we stood by and watched as the government began controlling our lives.