Julian Assange’s next job: Australian senator?

[Agorism]

Julian Assange’s next job: Australian senator?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/9150013/WikiLeaks-founder-Julian-Assange-to-run-for-Australian-Senate.html


The whistle-blowing website said it appeared that the 40-year-old’s current legal situation did not rule him out of running for Australia’s upper house.

“We have discovered that it is possible for Julian Assange to run for the Australian Senate while detained,” WikiLeaks said on Twitter. “Julian has decided to run.”

WikiLeaks said it will also field a candidate to run directly against Prime Minister Julia Gillard in her lower house electorate of Lalor, in Victoria, in the elections, which are due in 2013.

[The Goat]

If he wont the seat could he be released because of it?

[RiseAgainst]

Good for him!

[Crotale]

Interesting:

http://wlcentral.org/node/2401

What would be a Wikileaks party policy be like?

The former Democrats had a most democratic policy of members deciding policy, however there is a common policy that Wikileaks supporters inherently appreciate: the transparency that Wikileaks creates in leaking documents:

From the Wikileaks site:

Publishing improves transparency, and this transparency creates a better society for all people. Better scrutiny leads to reduced corruption and stronger democracies in all society’s institutions, including government, corporations and other organisations. A healthy, vibrant and inquisitive journalistic media plays a vital role in achieving these goals. We are part of that media.

Scrutiny requires information. Historically, information has been costly in terms of human life, human rights and economics. As a result of technical advances particularly the internet and cryptography - the risks of conveying important information can be lowered. In its landmark ruling on the Pentagon Papers, the US Supreme Court ruled that "only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government." We agree.

Politicians who endorse transparency in government; who promote the spread of information and not propaganda through the Parliaments of Australia; who honestly scrutinise the legislative instruments and organs of the state to combat injustice and prejudice; who properly represent the interests of all citizens without fear or favour of foreign powers: that's the kind of politician and a party so many of us would like to see.

This writer incidentally misses the wit of conviction politicians, even that warhorse, Anglophile and Australiaphobic Robert Gordon Menzies, prime minister of a bygone age, when accosted at a political gathering:

I wouldn't vote for you even if you were the Archangel Gabriel.

Madam, if I were the Archangel Gabriel, you wouldn't be in my constituency.