German weekly newspaper Die Zeit is bashing WikiLeaks all the time with some arguments that are far from truth or understanding. I once liked that paper and even wikipedia says that it is a liberal newpaper for intellectuals - yeah, you wish! And so far most of germany seems to be talking about how stupid our government looks in american eyes. Even some people I thought are smart don't get what WikiLeaks is about and #CableGate is demonstrating.

WTF?!? Of course I don't need an american diplomat to tell me that I'm ruled by brainless idiots - I know that already.

But I need WikiLeaks to make an american diplomat tell this honestly to the idiots that rule me. So when some politicians lament about world diplomacy never again being the same... YES! That's it! That's the point! I want the people deciding on how stuff is run around the world to be honest to each other, so that they can together find honest solutions. As Assange puts it: "WikiLeaks means it’s easier to run a good business and harder to run a bad business, and all CEOs should be encouraged by this." ¹ Think of governments as 'businesses' and of honesty as being 'good' (you do agree with the last claim, don't you?).

So when I told you that I think this is brilliant..

Brilliant!! @USAgov admits being a bunch of assholes just because @WikiLeaks is gonna publish some truth. http://goo.gl/ikn7Y :D

...I was very serious about it. No pun intended. Probably due to the length of a tweet just too much of lossy compression for some. Verbose mode: Look! The US goes telling people what it does and how it works - and even before anything is being published by WikiLeaks! WikiLeaks works! It works! *clappinghandsinatotallyinfantileway*

"The point of Wikileaks — as Assange argues — is simply to make Wikileaks unnecessary." ² "[..] if we maximize the reliable, verified information about how the world is working, then we start to produce more sophisticated and intelligent structures that respond to the abuses in societies and also the opportunities there may be in society."³

The more we make the ruling idiots think about what they say lie to each other and the people, the better the results of their work will become. They will have to start thinking about their real assignment and stop working only for their own profit, because the people start monitoring them. They can't play their own little conspiratory games in their circle of a few under the cover of being elected. They will be held accountable by the people - bottom up. Power to the people - executed, not abused, by a few. That's the democratic promise, isn't it?

And WikiLeaks is just about that. WikiLeaks works on making the ruling idiots realize that they can't hide anything in the digital age. It forces them to work honestly. Anything you say can come down on you - and if it affects millions or billions of people, then thanks to WikiLeaks it will come down on you one day! "You destroy the conspiracy, in other words, by making it so paranoid of itself that it can no longer conspire" ⁴