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Why doesn't Assange go back

NCD — Tue, 30 Jul 2013 01:09:29 +0000

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Why doesn't Assange go back to Sweden to fight the charges?

Don't they have an Ecuadorian embassy there (if necessary)?

I already believed Assange was secretive, manipulative, dishonest and vain and I never watched the Gibney video, or conjectured on the the quality of Assange's Swedish condoms.

Tomorrow we find out what price Manning pays for giving 700,000 documents to this vain and manipulative man tomorrow.

They succeeded even if they

Anonymous PP — Mon, 29 Jul 2013 18:00:23 +0000

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They succeeded even if they haven't triumphed (yet or ever)

I don't agree that the

A Guy Called LULU — Mon, 29 Jul 2013 17:31:12 +0000

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I don't agree that the whistle blowers have succeeded yet. Public opinion has moved a few points on a few issues and the yellow ribbon industry has suffered a bit, but not enough to change anything. Clapper, for instance, has been shown lieing under oath to Congress and the world and he still has his job. This comment is being intercepted and stored along with all others and all phone calls. More than half of all elected representatives voted to keep it that way. Some people in positions to know but bound by secrecy oaths say there is worse going on than that. War crimes continue to create new enemies daily. Even among those who object and think the government has gone too far, many, if not the majority, think the whistle blowers should go to jail for harshing our mellow by revealing it.

I don't know that Assange's

Verified Atheist — Mon, 29 Jul 2013 16:55:43 +0000

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I don't know that Assange's true nature is, but I see nothing unusual in the concept that you have someone revealing everyone else's secrets who has secrets of their own to hide. Indeed that story is quite an old one.

Yeah, he's so secret everyone

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 29 Jul 2013 16:43:34 +0000

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Yeah, he's so secret everyone keeps telling him to shut up. And look at all that power.

I guess it would have been okay if all they did was publish Scientology texts to laugh at. I think it funny when someone holds up Domscheit-Berg as a dissident of proof without noticing that Daniel never actually did anything after he left Wikileaks.

Anyway, despite attempts by people to shoot the messenger, any public enthusiasm about Iraq/Afghanistan is now pretty deflated, Bradley Manning's a household name with our actions in Iraq well-publicized, and Snowden's got everyone talking about actual mass snooping - whether we do something about it or not. So they succeeded - everything else is just quibbling or gossiping like some fan magazine.

The film?s contention is that

A Guy Called LULU — Mon, 29 Jul 2013 16:14:12 +0000

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The film’s contention is that Assange is a natural-born egotist and, however noble his initial project, Wikileaks ended up not only feeding his vanity but also accentuating in him the very qualities — secretiveness, manipulativeness, dishonesty and a hunger for power — he so despises in the global forces he has taken on.