Uhm.. Just in my tiny part of the universe, Sweden, there is the issue of our country cooperating much closer with NATO than government/public policy has let us voters know. Although I personally am pro NATO membership, it is a sensitive issue politically. It is something that if stated openly, could have cost all members of the old socialist government their paychecks, BMW's and callgirls. They left office in 2006, but the current government has continued this great tradition of lying to the voters about NATO. For example "the engagement in Afghanistan" makes it necessary to purchase US military equipment. In reality they are working to make all our forces technically compatible with and dependent of NATO, but they do not tell the voters.

In addition, the current prime-minister did make a great and popular statement regarding file-sharing, in public, during the elections in 2006. He said "we can not criminalize an entire generation of youths". His party then won the election and completely reversed on that statement. Wikileaks shows that they have so far implemented 5 out of 6 orders given to them by the US regarding intellectual property, completely reversing their public pre-election policy.

If they state one goal in public before an election, but secretly their goal is 180 degrees from the public one, you no longer have a functioning democracy. If the government is secretly planning to implement laws designed by a foreign power, but at the same time that government pretends to their own electorate that they are not going to implement such laws, you have a form of treason by the government against its own people.

This will of course not change anything because in a real democracy, as we all know, politicians state some popular goals and then the people go to elect the ones who say that the other parties kill more kittens.

I guess you are right. Wikileaks have not changed anything, but managed to increase my cynicism. Damn Wikileaks!

The artist formerly know as Henrik Rasmusson.

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