WikiLeaks and all the Drama..

Now unless you are living under some non-descript rock somewhere remote, you are bound to have crossed paths with news waves harking about the recent WikiLeaks drama. Long story short, WikiLeaks.org founded by a 39 year old Australian by the name Julian Assange, recently published on the web thousands of classified documents which if not disastrous for many Leaders and Governments across the globe have at the least been embarrassing. And since then, there has been lot of buzz about if this sort of public humiliation by WikiLeaks was justified, if it was credible, if it really helps any cause, if it put any soldier or intelligence folks in line of danger and all the bla bla bla.. Not only that there have been some interestingly curious developments around WikiLeaks soon after like Amazon.com pulling down WikiLeaks from their Servers under Government Pressure, WikiLeaks being unavailable for a while under cracker attack, WikiLeaks moving off to a Swedish domain, PayPal, Mastercard and Visa going down or facing Denial-of-service attacks. Plus the most amazing of all, two Swedish women suddenly having filed lawsuits again Julian Assange for assaulting them in non-gentlemanly ways followed by Mr. Assange getting arrested in London and his supports on the street or the web retaliating in their own ways.
Interesting sequence of events this all.
Now here is my comment. From the point of view of Freedom of the Web, WikiLeaks has a right to Free speech. They may also have a right to comment and present their opinion. But like they say, one persons rights end where another person's nose begins (or something like that), what needs to be seen is if these revelations are infact in any way beneficial to the larger Population in any way. The long term impacts of this episode will be know only in Time. I'm not very sure if it will create a sudden increase of distrust or violence in any part of the world. Nor am I sure if it will lead to a sudden burst of Happiness, Peace and Prosperity. Let us all wait and watch..