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Julian Assange Runs For Office In Australia

Posted by samzenpus on from the will-of-the-people dept.

mpawlo writes "Mr Julian Assange of Wikileaks fame, has, according to The Age, confirmed his intention to run for the Australian Senate in 2013. He will also form a Wikileaks political party. From the article: 'Mr Assange said plans to register an Australian WikiLeaks party were ''significantly advanced''. He indicated he would be a Senate candidate, and added that "a number of very worthy people admired by the Australian public" have indicated their availability to stand for election on a party ticket. Mr Assange said he is able to fulfill the requirements to register as an overseas elector in either New South Wales or Victoria and that he will shortly take a "strategic decision" about which state he would be a Senate candidate for.'"

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  1. Best of luck by Rik+Sweeney · · Score: 4, Informative

    The minute he steps out of the Ecuadorian embassy, he'll be arrested and bundled onto the next plane to Sweden.

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  2. Re:Arresting a politician? by Joce640k · · Score: 4, Informative

    PS don't you have to be charged before you can be arrested?

    Um, no. Almost any country in the world can hold you for a certain time without charges (eg. 24 hours).

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  3. Re:I like it! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Alleged != Guilty - Not that it matters in the court of public opinion, as you just clearly illustrated ;)

  4. And everyone here is stupid by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The sheer fact that you're even DEBATING whether political systems are corrupt is both sad and pathetic.

    Of COURSE Sweden's system is corrupt as hell. The US has been pulling strings HARD there since the very beginning. I'm not even going to fucking BOTHER googling things for you /.ers, since all of the extraordinarily shady background behind this whole Assange thing has been posted on Slashdot probably a dozen times or more by now. Do you HONESTLY think that the USA has absolutely no pull whatsoever in Sweden in this battle? Really? Is that something you believe... that Sweden is absolutely separate and doing all of this absolutely independant from the USA? Come on, how fucking naive are you?!?

    Good god people, look at yourselves. Do you REALLY think that ALL of the commotion, extradition, asylum, CIA, etc, etc is ALL because of the highly questionable (and in one case completely withdrawn) rape allegation?

    This has been gone over dozens of times on Slashdot! Why is there even still argument about it?!? No country on EARTH would put this much manpower, effort, mudslinging, defamation, and political force into one single person's NOT EVEN ARREST WARRENT, JUST REQUEST TO COME IN FOR QUESTIONING!

    Holy christ Slashdot commenters... what the fuck happened to you. This place is getting as bad as reading a fucking message board for Nascar fans or American Idol or some typical shit that placates the mass public.