Why are we scared of association with wikileaks? I hate wikileaks and its founder, but the currency is designed to persist in the face of institutional attempts to get rid of it. And wikileaks is in the news. So I hope they DO use it. They are a perfect candidate of an organization that should use bitcoin. If your business is legal, you’re using paypal and accepting credit cards. We need to throw away this dream of bitcoin taking over paypal for the white market. I hope we get a good share of the white market, but the main usage of bitcoins will be in gray and black markets.
And whether the reader agrees with that prediction or not, there is no such thing as bad publicity in any case. This is definitely a good thing for bitcoin.
Let the public get mad about bitcoin.
Regarding the article, I do not think it misrepresents the goals of bitcoin. Its goal really is to be decentralized and unable to be taken down. It does not imply that wikileaks was the catalyst for its creation, but that it fits the bill.