Wikileaks Founder Advised To Avoid American Gov't

eldavojohn writes "Media darling Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, has been told by his lawyers to avoid the United States on the grounds that the US military would like to ask him a few questions about his source of the Collateral Murder video. Assange claims to be holding yet more video (of a US attack on a village that allegedly killed 140 civilians in May of 2009), as well as a quarter million sensitive cables relating to the current foreign war operations from the US State Department. Assange surfaced for the cameras in Brussels while speaking about the need for the freedom of information. Can he build a high enough profile to protect himself from danger?"

Comments

He should really watch his back

[roman_mir]

He really needs to watch his back because he is definitely a target for 'complete neutralization' by the US government.

Baiting a nation's military is not a good idea

[jdgeorge]

This guy is playing a dangerous game. He's baiting a country's military. I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that most of the members of those military organizations might not be his biggest fans.

In any case, his lawyers are right. For his own safety's sake, he needs to keep a low profile, not just avoid the US government.

Re:The Whistleblowers' Blues

[Tolkien]

In school they call a whistleblower a tattletail. Many teachers even frown upon kids tattling on others. It's sad, it's engrained from a very young age that things that weren't seen should remain unseen.

Re:Exactly.

[lwsimon]

Citation please. If mere darkness causes insanity, then what about the blind? If quietness does it, what about the deaf? There are deaf/blind as well, they don't go insane from lack of stimulation. While I have no doubt that psychological torture is real, the idea that you can just thrown someone in a dark room adn they'll go crazy is pretty silly.