The mainstream media is up in arms about the 250,000 State Department documents released via Wikileaks this past Sunday. These documents detail some severe and candid political and personal remarks regarding some of the world’s top leaders, both foe and ally of the United States. Analysts and State Officials have deemed Wikileaks to be a threat to national security and are beginning to sanction the information provided to the site. Although the actual content of the newly released documents do not pose an actual threat to national security, it does stress the United States as being hypocritical, petty, and overbearing, all of the faults the State Department and the mainstream media have worked diligently to hide.

As the Wikileaks scandal continues to unfold, the United States will have to walk a fine line between suppressing the freedom of press and freedom of speech and working to stop the undoing of its carefully crafted image. Should sanctions be placed on government information, especially if the government is by the people, and for the people? Shouldn’t the public have the right to total and complete transparency in government? Or how transparent should the government be required to be? When I was growing up, our number one family rule was to keep the family business at home. Should this same rule apply to our communities and nation? Is all of this information really necessary?

Why are these documents coming to surface now? Seems like a calculated move from within our own government and political ranks but why and from who is the bigger question.

What are your thoughts? Peace. Love. Rebellion.

~Ishshah