Journalist gets arrested

[RGacky3]

This is essencially a political arrest, silencing, not a dissident, just a journalist (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/07/julian-assange-arrested-w_n_792956.html).

If you believe the official story about this being only about the rape charges your a moron, given all the facts, the total weekness of the case, and the shadyness of it, its entirely clear that this is 100% political silencing.

I really hope the major bank documents get out though.

Its really a shame, this guy is doing REAL jounslism and aparently, that is not acceptable.

[ComradeMan]

This is essencially a political arrest, silencing, not a dissident, just a journalist (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/07/julian-assange-arrested-w_n_792956.html).

If you believe the official story about this being only about the rape charges your a moron, given all the facts, the total weekness of the case, and the shadyness of it, its entirely clear that this is 100% political silencing.

I really hope the major bank documents get out though.

Its really a shame, this guy is doing REAL jounslism and aparently, that is not acceptable.

If it's not all Krimskram's conspiracy theory.

There's something about this whole story that makes me suspicious of ALL concerned.

[RGacky3]

Read about the actual rape charges, they are a joke, the women brought them up way after, (under pressure no doubt), the rape charges amounted to him not pulling out in time when the condom broke, the judge threw it out as not worth the courts time, and just now, its comming up again from a higher authority.

Its a joke, they are silencing a journalist, nothing more, nothing less.

[ComradeMan]

Read about the actual rape charges, they are a joke, the women brought them up way after, (under pressure no doubt), the rape charges amounted to him not pulling out in time when the condom broke, the judge threw it out as not worth the courts time, and just now, its comming up again from a higher authority.

Its a joke, they are silencing a journalist, nothing more, nothing less.

Well I don't have all the evidence, but from what's been reported it does seem suspicious.

[Revolution starts with U]

the judge threw it out as not worth the courts time, and just now, its comming up again from a higher authority.


Nice pun :cool:

[bawbag]

Former US vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has described Mr Assange as "an anti-American operative with blood on his hands".

RIDICULOUS!

The whole story is a joke, it is, indeed the persecution of a journalist. The free world praises its freedom of the press and freedom of the media but when something comes up which puts them in a bad light they set out to destroy it and everyone who reports it.

You can publish and say what you want, but if it puts us in a bad light we will annihilate you.

[bawbag]

Read about the actual rape charges, they are a joke, the women brought them up way after, (under pressure no doubt), the rape charges amounted to him not pulling out in time when the condom broke, the judge threw it out as not worth the courts time, and just now, its comming up again from a higher authority.

Its a joke, they are silencing a journalist, nothing more, nothing less.


how do you know this?

[cormacobear]

I fail to see how the most watched man on the planet and one of the most recognized faces in the world is a flight risk. He's on the cover of this weeks Time magazine. Refusing bail was just malicious.

Anyway for the London folk.
http://www.justiceforassange.com/

[#FF0000]

I really really really want to know who got killed over WikiLeaks.

[RGacky3]

how do you know this?

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/abraham/detail?entry_id=78430

Heres some more shady stuff about the woman who made the charges

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/assange-rape-accuser-cia-ties/

[#FF0000]

Usually as a matter of not being a douche, I don't generally think IT'S A HOAX when it comes to accusations of rape, but I mean, come on.

[bawbag]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/abraham/detail?entry_id=78430

Heres some more shady stuff about the woman who made the charges

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/assange-rape-accuser-cia-ties/


Cheers :)

[RGacky3]

BTW, if you listen to what the republicans are saying, that he is an "information terrorist" or an "enemy combatent" and that he should be prosecuted as such, when Glenn Beck talks about the US turning in to the USSR, was he talking about this? Shutting down journalists that report what the government does'nt like? Treating them as enemies of the state?

Is THAT what he was talking about? Actual tyrannical destruction of free speach? Oh no, healthcare for people, thats tyrannical, not this.

[ComradeMan]

Well it seems that Australia is having none of this.

[ComradeMan]

Of course if some here had their way he would have been taken out by a vigilante mob dishing out "street" justice....

[Ele'ill]

Of course if some here had their way he would have been taken out by a vigilante mob dishing out "street" justice....

So you're from Australia now?

[ComradeMan]

So you're from Australia now?

No, I read the news...

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1435336/Chomsky-signs-Aussie-letter-of-support-for-Assange

http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/World/Story/STIStory_611597.html

http://www.revleft.com/vb/australia-hands-off-p1950292/index.html#post1950292

fail:laugh:

[Ele'ill]

No, I read the news...

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1435336/Chomsky-signs-Aussie-letter-of-support-for-Assange

http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/World/Story/STIStory_611597.html

fail:laugh:

First of all it was a friendly jest


Second, you didn't have those links in either post and it came across as you referencing Australia as someone who lives there.

[ComradeMan]

First of all it was a friendly jest. Second, you didn't have those links in either post and it came across as you referencing Australia as someone who lives there.

Whatever.

It's global news.

[Nolan]

The rape charges are a sham pulled out of thin air by a CIA associate meant to distract from the document releases. There's really no two ways about it and I've made it a habit to not engage with anyone who doesn't agree.

[Ele'ill]

There was a thread about a month ago anticipating the wikileaks release where I and a few others predicted a set-up of this nature as opposed to his assassination.

They need him alive so they can publicly defame him. They'll kill him afterwards.



Let's be critical for a moment- what is the purpose of wikileaks? Is it helping something? Who can use the information released? Most of the public already assumes such government games and corruption exist.

Why is the left paying so much attention to an element that has taken the occupational position of- wasp down the shirt?


I can argue against some of this but I want to see what everyone else thinks.

[Comrade Marxist Bro]

Inquiring minds might care to examine Swedish writer Göran Rudling's great analysis of the situation and the absurdity of the Swedish case. It's posted at http://rixstep.com/1/20101001,01.shtml.

The bottom line is that Assange is merely guilty of raping -- yeah, figuratively speaking -- a certain regime headquartered in this nation's capital.

I'd also recommend reading some of Naomi Wolf's tongue-in-cheek remarks in her "Letter to Interpol" at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/naomi-wolf/interpol-the-worlds-datin_b_793033.html.


Thank you again, Interpol. I know you will now prioritize the global manhunt for 1.3 million guys I have heard similar complaints about personally in the US alone -- there is an entire fraternity at the University of Texas you need to arrest immediately. I also have firsthand information that John Smith in Providence, Rhode Island, went to a stag party -- with strippers! -- that his girlfriend wanted him to skip, and that Mark Levinson in Corvallis, Oregon, did not notice that his girlfriend got a really cute new haircut -- even though it was THREE INCHES SHORTER.

Terrorists. Go get 'em, Interpol!

Yours gratefully,
Naomi Wolf