BREAKING NEWS.. OR IS IT?

Julian Assange is the founder of Wiki Leaks, a website that sheds light on confidential government information. Assange is a well-known whistleblower (He is not a part of the military) who had uncovered a whole new version of the United States, our military, and our government overall using videos and journalism as his weapon.

Photo taken from NBC

The video that made headlines on every news source was of U.S troops shooting at 17 civilians from a helicopter in Iraq. You can probably predict why this would mean bad news (no pun intended) for the U.S. It comes to no surprise that once the video was released the government was out to get Julian Assange.

Facts that will be helpful to you to understand more of this article

Julian Assange is not an American, in fact when he uploaded the video he was nowhere near U.S territory
Journalists around the world are divided when it comes to Assange's situation.
Assange is currently incarcerated.

Americans

The reason why many Americans were upset about the videos being released is because it makes a bad image for the Land of the Free. America prides itself in being patriotic and showing respect for the military, so since both the U.S troops and our government were "threatened" by someone that is not a citizen, it made some Americans hate Julian Assange. They don't want their country to have a bad reputation and be in the wrong but for how long and at what expense do we want that to be the scenario? That America is great and is never wrong. I'll let you answer that for yourself

The Government

When the video was leaked, the U.S government found a way to take away Assange's freedom with 17 charges of espionage. The Espionage Act prohibits citizens from releasing information that could affect the U.S and it is military during war times. Assange asked for asylum and went to Ecuador but it turns out the the U.S was spying on him the whole time. Now he is doing time in a country that is not his. Although he is an Australian citizen and was in Europe when he leaked the video- he was not on American Soil- Julian Assange is still facing many years behind bars and has done nearly a decade in jail.

The World- Divided

Many people stand with Julian Assange because he has doing his job, he was being a journalist. He was only opening everyone's eyes to what really happens in our military and how our system tries to cover it. This man's health and life is deteriorating before everyone's eyes and no one is helping.
Although many might not agree with what Assange has done, one thing that can be said is that our system is flawed and has been for a very long time.

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