In the last several months, Wikileaks has slowly emerged from relative obscurity and become an international phenomenon. Both the website and its founder, Julian Assange, have been under fire for the “leaks” that the site releases.

These leaks, designed to expose unethical behavior from corporations and countries all over the world, are made public by WikiLeaks in an attempt to produce transparency in the world at large.

While in principle I agree with the organization, I detest its methods. Yes, people should be held accountable for their actions – especially unethical ones.

However, the organization appears to be on an unrelenting quest to move the citizens of the world into houses of glass, where paranoia and distrust flow freely in the global neighborhood.

Moreover, the fate of these documents and the safety of national and international secrets, have been placed in the hands of one small, albeit powerful, organization that consists of four full-time employees. I am not saying I distrust these four people, but rather I distrust people in general to make decisions of this magnitude.

Even when the United States was founded, over 200 years ago, the founding fathers of our nation thought that separation of powers was important. Unfortunately, there is no separation for WikiLeaks, no system of checks and balances. For an organization of this magnitude, with the kind of power it wields, there exists little more than disaster on the horizon.

On a positive note, WikiLeaks has truly pushed the limits of free speech, stretching it further than it possibly has ever been. Journalists are constantly fighting for the right to say more, to push these limits much like WikiLeaks has, which is great. Free speech though, even in the United States—a country renowned for this liberty—has limits.

My hope is that WikiLeaks does not push these limits until they break. Perhaps the world can look at its own mistakes, see the reason they were exposed on WikiLeaks in the first place. Maybe then WikiLeaks, already playing jump rope with a very fine line, will no longer be necessary in the eyes of anyone.