This week in class we focused in depth on whistleblowers. U.S. civic activist Ralph Nader coined the phrase in the early 1970s to avoid negative connotations found with other words such as “snitch”. I applaud his attempt to create a better word, yet whistleblowers are often times deemed snitches. Also, when people tend to think of whistleblowers, they probably think of WikiLeaks or individuals exposing important government information such as corruption when it comes to money or the military, however, whistleblowing does not have to be a big issue. It can simply be something wrong that is exposed. It is true that the more severe or personal the event that is exposed is, the more people it will reach. Whistleblowers truly believe that things
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military took actions that were very unlawful. We were able to view this film thanks to whistleblowers and without them, this incident would have been covered up and forgotten about by most people. The film was leaked by WikiLeaks and was essentially the military shooting down people while in the air all due to the potential of one of the people on the ground having a gun when I believe what was thought to be a weapon was really a camera. The military kept shooting until everyone was not moving anymore and were dead. When people came to collect the bodies, the military shot them too. I would not have believed a situation like this took place of I had not seen the video for myself. I can see how instances like this can contribute to the PTSD that many soldiers are left with after their service because they were killing innocent people. I do understand in the moment it may be believed that there were weapons so I see how this is a hard situation to handle or judge. This is due to the fact that we are only able to see a portion of the picture, what is really happening. As a result of releasing this video to the public, WikiLeaks got a lot of backlash from U.S. citizens. People do and do not want to know the truth, this is mostly because the truth is hard to take. As can be seen, WikiLeaks is a sort of reverse surveillance. It turns the power of unwanted attention back on the
military took actions that were very unlawful. We were able to view this film thanks to whistleblowers and without them, this incident would have been covered up and forgotten about by most people. The film was leaked by WikiLeaks and was essentially the military shooting down people while in the air all due to the potential of one of the people on the ground having a gun when I believe what was thought to be a weapon was really a camera. The military kept shooting until everyone was not moving anymore and were dead. When people came to collect the bodies, the military shot them too. I would not have believed a situation like this took place of I had not seen the video for myself. I can see how instances like this can contribute to the PTSD that many soldiers are left with after their service because they were killing innocent people. I do understand in the moment it may be believed that there were weapons so I see how this is a hard situation to handle or judge. This is due to the fact that we are only able to see a portion of the picture, what is really happening. As a result of releasing this video to the public, WikiLeaks got a lot of backlash from U.S. citizens. People do and do not want to know the truth, this is mostly because the truth is hard to take. As can be seen, WikiLeaks is a sort of reverse surveillance. It turns the power of unwanted attention back on the