Does WikiLeaks show U.S. is no longer a democracy?

Well, I've thought that, in practical terms, we've become ever more of an oligarchy all the time. And that, with the mythical pseudosuccess of Reagan's pee-down economics, unlike in the Gilded Age, too many sheeple actually refuse to see that.

Well, beyond economic royalists, of course, the U.S. has more and more imperialists more and more nakedly parading about in recent years. And, perhaps WikiLeaks has removed the emperor-by-Beltway-committee's clothes.

So ...

Is the U.S. government's recent actions against WikiLeaks and Julian Assange some indication we don't have a true democracy any more? Judy Bachrach says yes:

What constitutes a democracy? I’m beginning to think, thanks to WikiLeaks, that it’s not simply the right to vote. But the right to discover why you are voting for a specific individual and not voting for another. And there is absolutely no way to understand anything at all unless we are given the facts: names, quotes, background, color, and anecdotes included. You can decry WikiLeaks and Assange all you want. But they are the ones who give us what we need: the information to make intelligent choices about our leaders and what they’re quietly doing, whom to retain and whom to dismiss; the power returned to the people.

http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/new/blogs/bachrach/Lessons_of_Leaks