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Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange Has Passport Confiscated
Taco Cowboy writes "The Australian founder of the whistleblower website Wikileaks had his passport confiscated by police when he arrived in Melbourne last week. While Assange has made himself particularly unpopular with the US military by publishing video of attacks on civilians in Iraq, he's been something of a thorn in the side for the Australian government too. Last year, Wikileaks published a list of websites which were to be banned under the government's proposed Internet filter. While the aim of the filter is to block extreme pornography and the like, the blacklist included a number of more prosaic sites such as those of a travel company and a dentist.
I've got just a few seconds to put this message here. I'm imprisoned and they won't let me keep my hair looking super cool!
While it was returned 15 minutes later
Man, they are brutal down in Melbourne. And from the original article linked at TG Daily:
The Age has been told that Assange's passport is classified "normal" on the immigration database, meaning the Wikileaks director can travel freely on it.
They really know how to shake people up and intimidate you. Sounds almost as bad as my trip through United States customs coming back from vacation. They abducted me for three hours as I was forced to stand in line awaiting inspection and approval. They called it standard processing but I tell you what--it was more of a death march.
Australia would have to be insane to do something like that to Assange. He would trot that out in front of the media for weeks if that was what happened. What a claim to legitimacy. And for that reason I'm guessing this is likely a natural passport process turned into a PR stunt.
Assange mentioned it in an SBS Dateline interview.
So basically Australia said, "We need to renew your overly used passport and the authorities are looking into how you got a hold of a blacklist from our government." <sarcasm>The poor man! When will the persecution stop?! The only way you can only mitigate his suffering by making a tiny donation to Wikileaks.org.</sarcasm>
My work here is dung.
Maybe the dentist ran a swinger dental office like Tim Watley.
Monstar L
It rivals ED in its WE WILL HAVE TO SHUT DOWN IF YOU DON'T DONATE ability to remind you just how valuable their service is and WHY HAVEN'T YOU GIVEN ANY MONEY YET? just what an insanely high amount of money they claim they need to host a few third party files. Yet their site still manages to be down most of the PEOPLE ARE BEING TORTURED GIVE US MONEY time.
Did anyone else see "Wikileaks founder Assassinated" before taking a second look?
No, most of us can read.
Bear power corrupts barely
the powers that be eventually will either pull the plug or filter the internet, making the ability to express ideas, opinions and communications among the common folk more difficult.
And then we'll go back to a feudal monarchy. And then a slave empire. And then we'll go back to the caves.
I think your CIV was one of the flawed copies that played in reverse. Didn't you find it strange that you were the only one starting in Alpha Centauri?
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Towards the Singularity.
BROWN LEAVES HOTEL.
The bird is on the tree. I repeat. THE BIRD IS ON THE TREE.
Mains power corrupts, mainly.
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Is this the MPAA? Is this the RIAA? Is this the DMCA? I thought it was the USA!
No, most of us can read.
Citation Needed!
AC power corrupts, then it doesn't then it does then it doesn't...
rewriting history since 2109
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No but that fifth letter seals the deal
The TFA also includes a massive non-sequitur...
You realize you just said "The The Fucking Article," right?
"I don't care about the Constitution!" --Bill O'Reilly, November 17, 2009