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WikiLeaks Begins Release of 2.5m Syrian Emails
judgecorp writes "WikiLeaks has started publishing 2.5 million emails from Syrian political figures and other bodies. The material will embarrass Syria, as well as other governments according to Julian Assange (still hiding in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London). As well as revealing the behaviour of the Syrian regime, the emails will also expose the hypocrisy of other governments and companies, Assange has said."
Why ? Are guys that "stick it to the man" above the law these days ?
Every country and everyone has embarassing things to hide. Furthermore there are many other reasons to hide information. If you disagree with this, please post your credit card number, social security number and internet passwords in a reply message.
While you can maybe make the point that Assange can't legally be arrested in the Ecuadorian embassy, which is true, but he is a fugitive under 3 law systems, all of which are western free democracies with fair justice systems, all of which provide all the protections for a fair trial. He refuses to face his accusers or the justice system for crimes including rape, fraud, spying, conspiracy to commit treason and others. He lies about wikileak's internal structure, as it pertains to money, and has refused payment on contracts he had signed. And of course, hiding from justice is an offence by itself, and a very serious one at that. As to whether he is guilty, frankly given his behaviour, my money's on "yes", including the rape and fraud charges. As to whether those Swedish rape laws are just, that's not a discussion we should be having just because one popular guy has managed to run afoul of it.
Why would any guy currently popular get protection from the law ? I wonder what the reaction would be if a wall street banker stole some money and tried this crap ...
Furthermore, I am not a fool, and as such I find it very hard to believe wikileaks is anything but a broker for industrial espionage data that has decided to try to do that publicly. I find it very, very hard to believe they are anything but a front for something else. If they succeed, the world will be a much worse place.
Assange kept promising and promising this information and only held out for the highest bidder, which never bit. The fact it was never released is a testiment to Assange's greed. Word has it from the media outlets, Assange was even allowing BoA to bid on it along side the media outlets.
I have no idea why people forget that Assange's whole business model (yes, Wikileaks was/is a business) is to extort money for information to the highest bidder. This combined with the fact he's a sociopath means you've identified an idiot everytime someone defends him.