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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...
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this has served him wonderfully in his work life: respect the sensitivity of a country's secret info? nah
but it has ruined his personal life: respect a woman's wishes in the bedroom? nah
and for those of you who wish to flame me because i am dissing their personal hero: if you can't separate the sainthood of the man from the sainthood of the work, then you have problems. because it is entirely possible to do good things in this world but be a rotten person, and visa versa
you should respect assange's work. i do. i respect assange for what he has done in terms of exposing nasty secrets in this world. good for him
but that does not mean i automatically give the man a free pass on rape
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
The Swedish government retracted the charges. Now his own organization isn't backing him up? How much do you want to bet Jonsdottir isn't a CIA plant?
There will be WikiLeaks, and lo, there will be whatever splinter group Saint Assange sets up in order to keep himself relevant. Are you the WikiLeaks People's Front? Fuck off, we're the People's Front of WikiLeaks. Plus ça change.
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He is a celebrity. A 50-something normal (non-geek) woman neighbor of mine asked me about him (before the "rape" complaints). Anyone "famous for 15 minutes" or more, which is anyone whose face gets on any nation's TV (especially in the US) is a "celebrity".
If he were a professional athlete, the women complaining would have come along with expensive and effective lawyers to squeeze $millions from him in blackmail, with the same baseless stories against him.
The only real difference here is that Assange doesn't have the money to be a target of a properly orchestrated celebrity blackmail scheme.
But the discredit in the schoolyard media works in the Pentagon's infowar against him, so it stays. Not necessarily because the women complaining were anything more than useful idiots. But the celebrity smear is a sticky medium, once launched into action.
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Let's get some details....
As he pushed her to the bed, he ripped her blouse off her firm natural breasts, nipples hard as diamonds, his enormous erect penis thrusting out from his unzipped white linen trousers. Assange then flipped her over on a pillow, her ass glistening in the air, parted her lags, and rammed his love tool into her moist hole, as she pleaded "No, Julian, nooooo! Not without a condom..."
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Accusations of bribery are rampant on Slashdot whenever a public figure, judge or politician makes a decision the geek does not like.
Exactly; in the long list of why the majority of posters on slashdot irritate the hell out of me, that probably comes first. It's thoughtless, paranoid, and I suspect most of its proponents actually believe it, but they throw the accusation in to look all crafty. Like a federal judge, who is almost always making about a quarter of what they could in private practice, and the party allegedly doing the bribing, are both going to risk their careers and freedom over some everyday case.
Slashdot is full of biased, tribalist attitudes. Look at the other article about Google claiming Microsoft is behind their antitrust review, as if Google is always right and trustworthy or that Google shouldn't be reviewed for antitrust concerns, regardless of who initiates it.