I find many things ironic. However, I came across and article recently regarding the well known Julian Assange.
As many of us know, he has a website called WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks’ sole purpose is to take confidential information and make it public.
Prior to this year, many of the leaks were based upon companies. Since this spring, many of the leaks have originated from the US government.
Now, to look at the situation from an organizational level and relate it to a human is fairly simple. The cables were simply an internal dialog regarding the inner workings and thoughts of government employees. These would be very similar to the thoughts in one’s head. These are meant to be an internal dialog and not to be shared with outsiders.
In some cases, these were also private conversations with our government, also intended to be confidential.
This is the way bodies work, whether internal or as large organizations. There has to be that internal dialog.
However, it seems that Julian doesn’t like information being leaked about him.
Ironic? You decide.
In this article, Julian blasts those who try to smear him.
“He accused his media partners at The Guardian newspaper, which worked with him to make the embarrassing leaks public, of unfairly tarnishing him by revealing damaging details of the sex assault allegations he faces in Sweden.”
You mean to tell me that showing only part of the conversation is bad?
He says:
Speaking from the English mansion where he is confined on bail, the 39-year-old Australian said that the decision to publish incriminating police files about him was “disgusting”.
But, wait a minute.. Why is releasing information about the government good but information about Julian bad?
And, much like he asked the government to help them redact files for names, the Guardian also gave him time to respond. Much like the jilted government who spurned helping him, he did the same to the Guardian:
Mr Assange is understood to be particularly angry with a senior reporter at the paper and former friend for “selectively publishing” incriminating sections of the police report, although The Guardian made clear that the WikiLeaks founder was given several days to respond.
To me, this is the definition of irony. A many who is hell bent on disclosing information held by others doesn’t want his own information made public.