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Assange Seeks To Sue Prime Minister Gillard For Defamation
First time accepted submitter menno_h writes "WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says he has hired lawyers to investigate how to sue Prime Minister Julia Gillard for defamation."
Assange "says comments made by Ms Gillard in 2010 that WikiLeaks acted illegally in releasing US diplomatic cables have affected the viability of his organisation. 'Mastercard Australia, in justifying why it has made a blockade that prevents any Australian Mastercard holder donating to WikiLeaks, used that statement by Julia Gillard,' he said."
Holding publicly elected individuals accountable is something that has precedence.
You hold them accountable for what they do, not what they say. His only valid case is against Mastercard. They are the ones to hold accountable. They are the bad actors. I hope Assange loses his ass over this. Screw him.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Really? A guy that suborned a US Army private to illegally give him access to classified diplomatic cables wouldn't do something if he didn't have a good case? Oh, wait he might sue ME now because I said he did something illegal that he has bragged that he did only I said that it is illegal. Well it IS illegal to do what he did. You might disagree with me about whether it ought to be illegal but there's no real question that it IS.
Julian Assange is a terrible individual with a narcissistic, attention-seeking personality. Only a truly cynical person would take advantage of the Bolivarian twits from Ecuador to try and beat rape charges. His arguments that running from a rape charge is somehow applaudable, because the Swedes might send him to the US to face justice for his other crimes is laughable -- Sweden, apart from Russia, is probably the last place on Earth who would extradite anybody to the US.
An absolute disgrace, aided and abetted by the media looking for a good story.
Flame away, fanboys. I'm looking forward to reading the broken basement-dweller logic in the replies.
Many thanks to the moderator who gave you the "informative" mod for proving my point on how the listener/reader is the real problem. Not that it will make a difference to the fascist censors, but there it is in green and white, exactly what I'm talking about.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Nice going. Depending a rapist. "He's not a rapist, he's a libertarian just like MEEEEEE"