We Need The Courage To

My Activities, For Which I Gratefully Accept This Award, Are Today What They Have Been For Over Thirty-five Years And Will Be For The Rest Of My Life: To Counter Governmental Secrecy About The Nuclear Arms Race That Threatens The Survival Of Life On Earth; And To Help Build A World Movement That Will Prevent A First Use Since Nagasaki Of Nuclear Explosions, Prevent Or End Interventions That Could Lead To Such An Event, And Bring About A World Free Of Nuclear Weapons.

There Should Be At Least One Leak Like The Pentagon Papers Every Year.

The Fact Is That When It Comes To Judgment As To What Should Be Secret And What Should Not Be Secret, Julian Assange's Judgment Has Been Pretty Good So Far.

President Johnson Put Destroyers In Harm's Way In The Tonkin Gulf Not Only Once, But Several Times, With The, With A Lot Of His People Hoping That It Would Lead To A Confrontation And Claiming That It Had. And Could Have Resulted In The Lost Of Many Lives In The Course Of It.

Wikileaks Serves As A Back-up For Those Who Want To Tell The Truth About The Inner Workings Of Government When The Mainstream Media Is Not Willing Or Taking Too Long To Publish.