writing 2

Ashtin Strelke

Michael Benton

Eng 102

August 24, 2011

                What Julian Assange is doing with his website wikileaks is something that I think is great for the American people and is something that I think should have been done a long time ago. Somebody needed to show Americans what really is going on with our government besides what they show us in the newspaper or on the news. Julian website got his first big break when he released a video of U.S. helicopter gunship killing 12 Iraqi civilians. Now this is something that the government want release on the news but they’ll show you when U.S. troops die. Which is U.S. troops are over there killing civilians than I think that the government needs  to show both sides of the story not just the Iraqi civilians killing our troops but are troops killing innocent Iraqi civilians, Shortly after the release of the video Wikileaks published 90,000 U.S. military war logs of the war in Afghanistan.  After doing so Wikileaks hit its biggest leak ever when they published 390,000 classified U.S. documents on the war in Iraq. With all the things the government hides from us I think that it’s good to have someone that will basically stand up for the American people and show us what’s really going on inside the government. Because the government wants to run things how they want to and not what’s right for all the civilians in America. They hide things from us and try to manipulate our minds to think a sertain way about the government and what’s going on in the world they would never tell the people what’s really going on so that’s why I like what Julian is doing with his website by hacking the government and showing the people what really going on. Julian efforts of showing Americans what’s really going on in the government got him targeted by U.S. and other governments around the world.