Wikileaks and the Need for Free Speech

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It's been said that the first casualty of war is truth, And I'm inclined to agree. Listen: We live in an age of instant information So isn't it strange that things have been hidden away from us Governments think we need to gain their trust But it's the other way around, just take a look Nothing tells us more than raw data does So it's important it's all available to us Plus put up for debate And looked at by the public's gaze Because there's a lot more to be gained from taking off the ball and the chain And the blinkers that have been causing us pain in more than one way Power to the people? We've fallen away from it There's a formal name for this, it's called a dictatorship And censorship's not restoring our faith for shit So let's rip away the red tape and paperclips It's a shame that it's come to this for freedom of speech That we need a safe haven for people that leak But you see, we speak what we seek And we just seek what we speak, and that's the truth that's keeping us free The truth will set you free The truth will set you free The issue's prickly when it comes to WikiLeaks Different people see it differently and disagree Does it pillory the bigotry of ministries of tyranny Or is it merely hindering the coalition's victory? It's a mystery to me, but look at history You'll see that liberty is eager to face up to inquiry We learnt a heap from Bradley Manning, didn't we? We saw conspiracy hidden beneath the sheet of anonymity This military intelligence is giving me the evidence We really need to step up and declare that we're fed up of it Why should we trust you when everything that does come through Shows we shouldn't trust you as far as we could chuck you Try to silence something, it'll become amplified Magnified by wires, waves and satellite We won't be pacified by the fact it's classified You need a mandate from the people to be ratified So on their behalf I shall provide this battle cry To tell the powers that be that we're clearly unsatisfied And if you ignore my reasonable plea That's just fine by me, cos all the media's seen The cause and reason for leaks is more than freedom of speech It's also people's belief that we all need to be briefed In order to keep all the peace, we ought to police the police And that takes much more than just the formal PR release So all in all you see, we speak what we seek And we just seek what we speak, it's the truth that's keeping us free The truth will set you free The truth will set you free Should we listen to the whistleblowers? Of course Even if it'll throw us off course? Of course, cos if you need to suppress the truth Then I expect that you've got some regretful news But it's best that you confess and soon Before we end up less than destitute Civilian deaths and executions are routine While billions are spent on weapon producing Do you think you can reduce the terror threat By inflicting terror on an infant that's never witnessed terror yet Look, if Americans had taken my parents away I'd never forget my vendetta 'til I'd settled the debt It'd take more than an open letter to let you know That what we see's obviously not democracy, it's puppetry This jungle's burning and we can't see the wood for trees Sky's keeping us dry, so we need someone to leak Because you see, we speak what we seek And we just seek what we speak, it's the truth that's keeping us free The truth will set you free The truth will set you free Thanks to WikiLeaks - one of the most important websites ever, and thanks to everyone who's put their personal safety on the line in order to expose something that they feel needs to be known. The truth will set you free.