Wikileaks is busting the monopoly not only on information but on the law as it relates to information, and on who gets to decide what that law is. Wikileaks challenges the legitimacy of the monopoly state itself by the act of establishing a real-world check on it - not to one government in one country, but to all governments everywhere. Wikileaks has shown that government monopoly on information must be subverted if there is to be genuine transparency and any hope of accountability.
The significance of Wikileaks is not to be measured by the value of the information it has released, or by the legitimacy of releasing it. Nor is it a function of the integrity, or lack thereof, of Assange or those working with him. Whether Wikileaks is a force for good or for evil is a function of its potential to offer up a real challenge to government control of information and by extension to governments' power over the lives of ordinary people.
Most foreign officials are likely to overcome any reticence over leaks within a year. Governments deal with the United States because it's in their interest, not because they like Uncle Sam, not because they trust Uncle Sam, and not because they believe Uncle Sam can keep secrets.
Most classified material is improperly classified; governments oftentimes invoke claims of secrecy to shield themselves from embarrassment, not to protect national security. The attention on minute and often mundane details that shouldn't be classified precipitate a closer look at overclassification, Leaks have a beneficial side effect.
There is a tension between individuals sharing their genuine opinions about another country, or that country's leaders, and concern that their candid assessments in private conversations be revealed. People do keep secrets from one another, including their kith and kin. It is basic human nature. And it is basic human nature to clam up the next time you're talking to a friend who recently blabbed your secrets to a third party.
Not all laws are sacrosanct, and much classified material shouldn't be. Releasing such information is a legitimate form of civil disobedience, because the laws governing release of documents are unjust. Overclassification and other resorts to secrecy to shield the government from public scrutiny are on par with far more egregious violations of the basic rights and liberties of all citizens.
Freakish Graecokleptocrats, who stole billions of euros and never went to jail, have the nerve to jail innocent dissident bloggers! The entropy of an organization is proportional to the square of its size. The Greek government needs only four ministers, but it has forty. No wonder, Premier Papandreou cannot control his freakish ministers, who do not have any better thing to do than suing innocent dissident bloggers, confiscating their computers, and locking them in jail for treason! Stolen lives are the major infamy of the deranged Papandreou government, a pack of mad dogs! Freak galore!
Greece, the cradle of kleptocracy, is the most disgusting gagger of dissident bloggers. Abolishing kleptocracy and cybercop brutality in modern Greece, the most corrupt country of Fourth Reich, will prove even more futile than the famous search by Diogenes for an honest man in Ancient Greece. Greece is George Orwell's Dystopia with Minitrue(Education), Miniluv(Police), Miniplenty(Economy), Minipax(Defense), and Minifreak(Foreign Affairs). Anarchy would be a much better system for Greece than the present kleptocracy.
The Papandreou government is a large gang of sadomasochists who harass dissident bloggers and manipulate the brutal Graecocybercops as a political tool. The infamous magnum opus of the Papandreou government is the destruction of a distinguished professor, an innocent dissident blogger who dared post the truth. This tragic event happened on October 18, 2010. That's why the Global Tax Revolt declared October 18 as the International Day Against Cybercop Brutality. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globaltaxrevolt
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