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"When the government fears the people, it is called democracy. When the people fear the government, it is called tyranny." Thomas Jefferson

Tyranny, I think it the correct word to describe environment in the countries where government and government organizations can do anything with its people and don't even care for justice of its people. Everyone of these was enjoying unprecedented power and monopoly until a guy called Julliean Assange started a website called wikileaks.com and started publishing all the secret documents that would have never reached to ordinary people without wikileaks.

Wikileaks, a website started with objective of exposing oppressive regimes in Asia, the former Soviet bloc, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, but also expect to be of assistance to people of all regions who wish to reveal unethical behaviour in their governments and corporations, published its first document in December 2006 and now it is roaring at 1.2million documents.

What made wikileaks different from other way opening government fraud is that before one has to goto media submit it and then wait while wikileaks provided platform to virtually anybody who gets his hands on classified material, to publish such files online for all to see. In starting, 2008, wikileaks used to simple release documents but in last summer it adopted journalistic approach and started editing and posting views about document. In july wikileaks partnered with main stream media by giving them early look at Afghan War diary. In November it published 250,000 diplomatic cables , of USA, describing tension across the globe and the reaction was huge. Wikileaks was all over in media,news paper,Tv, magazines and what not? It earned lot of fame to wikileaks and lot of criticism and wince of politicians.

Founder of EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) and lyricist John Perry wrote “The field of battle is WikiLeaks, You are the troops”. Last week when US government attempted to stop wikileaks those “troops” fought back. When US senator Joe Liberman urged amazon.com to stop wikileaks and amazon did it, thote troops attacked amazon.com, and by two days WikiLeaks listed 507 Web addresses that it said were hosting the site worldwide. When PayPal, MasterCard and Visa all blocked donations to WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks' backers fought back, though their hacker attacked on some of the sites that shut off WikiLeaks funding may be less effective. After some political pressure and wikileaks proclaim that it was done for “no obvious reason”, the accounts were restored[wikipedia].

While founder is Jullian Paul Assange is behind the bars in sweden under charges of unprotected sex, every one is eagerly waiting for result of this fight between David and Goliath.