The 'muckrakers' in the US in the l9th and 20th centuries upset the seats of power, but brought to light and helped correct many injustices. The Carl Sandburg poem The Liars, tells us why we need Assange and his collaborators to defend us from The Liars.

The Liars
Carl Sandburg( excerpt)

' A liar is a liar and lives in the lies he tells, and dies in a
life of lies... A liar lies to nations, a liar lies to the people...
He is straight as a dog's hind legs. He is straight as a cork-
screw...

The liars met where the doors were locked. They said to each
other...Now for war...

Across their tables, they fixed it up, behind their doors, away
from the mob. And the guns did the job that nicked off millions.

So I hear the People tell each other, when the Liars say its
time, Take things in your own hands. To hell with them all,
those liars that lie to nations, the liars that lie to the People...'

It still takes common people to accept the truth and act on it.
Ojala!