Greg Barns - Rise Of The Right

Greg Barns is Julian Assange's lawyer and barrister noted for his pieces in the Mercury. At the heart of a deceitful government is the oppression of truth-tellers. Journalists and writers whose job is to keep the public up-to-date with the truth. Oppression of the truth-tellers is in fact anti-democratic. A good society has intellectual individuals who share stories and give people different view on things, rather than what they are told by the propaganda machines. It is bizarre that the truth and writing especially has been policed in such a way like a criminal act when people have been writing since the dawn of man, communicating and drawing with different mediums.

Ann Oakley - The Men's Room

One has to acknowledge the role of good journalism in a tightly restricted authoritarian style government and the first is monitoring what is published and cracking down on dissent with the police force. Once the police have been engaged, the money is sapped from the news outlet, until it withers away. Remember the greatest writer possibly ever, Franz Kafka kept all his work unpublished during his lifetime and never made any money from his works. Writing is frequently attacked by authoritarian governments to stop people from gaining a different view of things.