At great personal risk (of a government vendetta) Julian...

At great personal risk (of a government vendetta) Julian Assange,
Private Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden revealed what US
politicians and public agencies have conspired to keep secret:

The massacre of unarmed Iragis by a helicopter gunship
for sport in Baghdad. And the amassing of telephone
e-mail and social network views around the globe
for threat profiling for more intensive spying.

The US government's conspiracy against US citizens is
designed to intimidate them into silence and obedience.

News is what governments, corporations and billionaires
(like Gina Rinehart) don't want you to know. Everything
else is public relations, spin, hype and outright lies.

The best way to save democracy is to be seditious.
Evil multiplies because good people say nothing.
Assange, Manning and Snowden are brave men
who have my admiration, respect and gratitude.

Canberra has many memorials to those who fell
in battle. This is Canberra's smallest memorial: