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WikiLeaks Calls For Assange To Step Down
Stoobalou writes "A member of Iceland's parliament and prominent organizer for whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks has turned on the site's spokesman, Julian Assange, urging him to step down over rape allegations made against him in Sweden. Birgitta Jonsdottir told news site The Daily Beast that she did not believe Assange's repeated assertion that the allegations of rape and molestation made against him were part of a US-backed smear campaign to distract attention from documents posted on the site laying bare US involvement in the war in Afghanistan and further promised revelations."
Assange is a megalomaniac control freak. This is why he should step down, such "leadership" no longer benefits Wikileak's purpose. He may also be a creep, but that's a separate issue from Wikileaks. Now, megalomaniac control freaks are often creeps...
I think Assange gets so much love on slashdot precisely because an abnormally high percentage of slashdot posters are themselves megalomaniacal control freaks, and they see themselves in him. Just like they saw themselves in Hans Reiser.
This attack was expected, Australian Intelligence organizations had warned him that there would typically be a smear campaign against him for a situation like this.
If he takes a "leave of absence" then the world may as well just declare the US government has outlawed the concept of freedom of information.
can you spell 'chauvinist'
there are some well-reasoned comments on this thread. stop giving slashdot a bad name.
if chicks think all nerds are chauvinist pigs, we'll never get laid - except for the motorcycling-through-vietnam albino crypto nerds coming straight out of a neal stephenson novel.