TightWind is written by Kyle Baxter. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Grant Heaslip:

This release isn’t going to make the world a better place, and that shouldn’t be surprising to anyone — Assange’s goal isn’t to expose any particular wrong-doing, but to destroy the very institutions that make the United States a great, if at times flawed, nation. Those who believe in liberal democracy and think that the way to improve the world is to work within the system and expose specific wrongdoing when appropriate — rather than attempting to upend the table — should be calling this what it is: an act of sedition, not journalism or civil disobedience.

I don’t think sedition is the right word; it’s more like warfare through information, but in any case, Grant is right. My disgust with Assange is that rather than try to work through the democratic process to fix the system, he is trying to destroy it—a government that is designed both to protect individual rights and to peaceably make changes to it.