Review of We Steal Secrets

I rate this documentary seven because of its watchability, although I realised while watching it that my mind was being warped against Assange. The title alone is a giveaway. Hackers have been very unfortunate, particularly since they caused the personal computer and the internet to be invented through their hacking work on telephones in the 1970s. It was William F. Gates who first threatened a hacker with the law, and that individual was later locked up with a lengthy sentence, starting the whole ugly corporate/state process that continues to this day with the victimisation of Assange. The documentary makes it plain that if Assange was to be locked up for publishing the war and state documents, so should the editors of the New York Times and The Guardian. It also showed the NYT journalists joining in the badmouthing of Assange, according to the CIA script. Then the film went on to condemn Assange for taking refuge with the one country that offered to help out: who could blame him? Yes, its a mixed up film that tries to show up Assange as a power freak, although he is of course a pathetic victim of the giant power that he took on. I, for one, truly hope he gets elected to the Australian Senate.