Julian Assange on TED
*Maybe a few spoilers below*
Julian Assange talks on TED about why the world needs Wikileaks. I won't spoil the video for you, however I'll extend a quote. During the interview the panelist shows a leaked video of soldiers mowing down over 11 innocent people in their Black Hawk helicopter in a barrage of bullets, you can hear the soldiers laughing about it seconds after everyone is dead. The interviewer then asks Julian how he would respond to the many parents of soldiers who say their children are not like that, and that showing the video wrongly depicts the attitudes of US soldiers in Iraq, he said that, "...the people in Baghdad, the people in Iraq, the people in Afghanistan, that they don't need to see the video, they see it everyday, so it's not going to change their opinion it's not going to change their perception, that's what they see every day, it will change the perception and opinion of the people that are paying for it all. And that's our hope." I noticed also the crowd was mostly against Julian, many thought of him as a "trouble-maker". Enjoy!
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