Refusing to wear a condom or the condom breaking is rape?!?

[SlyPokerDog]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...s-spark-worldwide-hunt.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Julian Assange = international player.

 

[hasoos]

Doesn't sound like he is guilty of anything in this case to me. I may not approve of him releasing the docs on his site, but he didn't do anything wrong here from what I read. There may be more to the story. Maybe not.

 

[speeds]

The whole thing stinks and the timing of it makes it that much more obvious.

 

[Haakzilla]

[video=youtube;5JYBbYEzS8Y]

 

[Eastoff]

There was some reports that he was seen with the accuser at lunch or something long after the arrest warrant came out. But that might just be good news.

 

[Entity]

They're just making him a martyr. He's not a one guy operation, it won't send a message to anyone, and I'm sure there are others who'll carry on in his name. I don't think the US stands to benefit from this if this is indeed a ploy.

 

[Natebishop3]

That article is waaaaaaay too long. The whole thing could have been summed up by the title of this thread.

 

[Entity]

The guy apparently has a "doomsday file" that would be released in the event that he is imprisoned or killed. He's already released information about locations the US considers critical to national security and infrastructure. I can only imagine this has something to do with national intelligence personnel data or intelligence collection assets and procedures, because if it were just something he considered immoral I think he would have plans to release it anyway.

 

[jlprk]

It's just a coincidence that the day after the US declared war on him, this charge was made. Also a coincidence that in the couple of weeks since then, Amazon and other servers dumped Wikileaks, PayPal dumped it, a few countries banned it, and American politicians made threats against the NY Times for espionage.

 

[Natebishop3]

It's just a coincidence that the day after the US declared war on him, this charge was made. Also a coincidence that in the couple of weeks since then, Amazon and other servers dumped Wikileaks, PayPal dumped it, a few countries banned it, and American politicians made threats against the NY Times for espionage.

Yeah, I can't even find it.

 

[Entity]

Actually, reading that story paints one of his accusers thusly:

"Sarah" was already a well-known ‘radical feminist’. In her 30s, she had travelled the world following various fashionable causes. While a research assistant at a local university she had not only been the protegee of a militant feminist *academic, but held the post of ‘campus sexual equity officer’. Fighting male discrimination in all forms, including sexual harassment, was her forte...

...How must "Sarah" have felt to *discover that the man she’d taken to her bed three days before had already taken up with another woman? *Furious? Jealous? Out for revenge?...

...Earlier this year, "Sarah" is reported to have posted a telling entry on her website, which she has since removed. But a copy has been retrieved and widely circulated on the internet. Entitled ‘7 Steps to Legal Revenge’, it explains how women can use courts to get their own back on unfaithful lovers. Step 7 says: ‘Go to it and keep your goal in sight. Make sure your victim suffers just as you did.’ (The highlighting of text is "Sarah’s" own.)

...which sounds like a pretty bruised ego rather than a non-coincidental conspiracy.

 

[Colonel Ronan]

The whole thing stinks and the timing of it makes it that much more obvious.

Wow, you're completely right. I never really thought about it that way.

 

[Natebishop3]

Wow, you're completely right. I never really thought about it that way.

I can't tell if you're being serious right here. Are you being serious right here?

 

[Colonel Ronan]

I can't tell if you're being serious right here. Are you being serious right here?

Yes, if I was trolling I would of added this:

 

[speeds]

Still think he was taking the piss.

 

[Colonel Ronan]

Still think he was taking the piss.

No, I'm being legit. I know it's pretty obvious now that I think about it but I'm just an innocent boy.

 

[Natebishop3]

No, I'm being legit. I know it's pretty obvious now that I think about it but I'm just an innocent boy.

Youth... How I miss thee.

 

[Ed O]

I really don't like Assange. I think that the US and consumers have every right to pressure companies like Amazon and PayPal not to deal with Wikileaks...

But if the story is true about how it all went down with the charges against Assange, it shows that the system in that country is broken. He clearly seems to be getting treated unfairly.

I don't buy that it's the US, though, somehow helping this charge along. It seems much more likely to me that a couple of women just didn't like getting "played" and they decided to do something (that may or may not be legal) about it.

Ed O.

 

[DUB]

WikiLeaks and the politics of embarrassment

WikiLeaks have revealed a credibility gap not merely between US words and actions, but between those of politicians and officials all over the world. The difference between the Australian government’s official optimism on Afghanistan and its private and apparently very deep pessimism is only the latest example.

This credibility gap —  ya’ll know the origin of that phrase I’m sure — as much as loose security and over-classification within the US government and military, is what needs to be addressed as a result of WikiLeaks. Why didn’t US taxpayers know from their own government that their armed forces were deeply involved in action in Yemen? Why do Australians have to rely on leaked cables to find out just how pessimistic both politicians and bureaucrats are about a conflict that is costing the lives of our young men? Why do Nigerians need to rely on WikiLeaks to find out their government has been extensively infiltrated by agents of oil companies? No reasons of statecraft or national security could justify the gaps between publicly-stated positions and privately-held beliefs among decision-makers.

All politicians and senior officials face a clear decision in the wake of WikiLeaks  — either they can gamble that never again will such material make it into the public domain — beyond, um, the other quarter-million cables yet to be released — or they can start closing the gap between what they tell the public and what they actually think.

 

[jlprk]

I don't buy that it's the US, though, somehow helping this charge along. It seems much more likely to me that a couple of women just didn't like getting "played" and they decided to do something (that may or may not be legal) about it.

accuser admits she is a CIA agent
http://www.businessinsider.com/anna-ardin-stops-cooperating-in-assange-prosecution-2010-12

accuser deleted tweets to cover up her lies
http://rixstep.com/1/20101001,01.shtml