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Wikileaks Party Making Questionable Deals In Attempt To Win Senate Seat

Posted by Soulskill on from the strange-bedfellows dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Brisbane Times notes that 'Julian Assange's Wikileaks Party has come under fire for directing its preferences to the Shooters and Fishers Party and the white nationalist Australia First Party ahead of both major parties and the Greens in the NSW Senate race. Australia First's policies include reducing and limiting immigration and "abolishing multiculturalism." The chairman of Australia First, Jim Saleam, is a former neo-Nazi who was convicted in the late 1980s of organizing a shotgun attack on the home of an Australian representative of the African National Congress. WikiLeaks candidates in NSW include human rights activist Kellie Tranter.' The Wikileaks Party blamed the outcome on administrative problems. This is drawing further criticism."

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  1. Again and Again by Ralph+Wiggam · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Once again Julian Assange shows that his primary focus is the elevation of Julian Assange.

    1. Re:Again and Again by batkiwi · · Score: 4, Insightful

      What does this have to do with Assange directly?He is only one of 7 wikileaks candidtates, and he is running in Queensland.

      This story is about preferences in New South Wales. The wikileaks candidates in NSW are Kellie Tranter and Alison Broinowski.

  2. Re:Why wasn't this leaked by Wikileaks? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Honor is a luxury in war...you have to become the villain in order to achieve an even greater good.

    NO! Honor is not a commodity to be traded. Never lower yourself to the level of what you fine questionable and definitely don't justify it by believing it's for the "greater good." Your words read like justification for "enhanced interrogation."

    captcha: chivalry

  3. Re:Why wasn't this leaked by Wikileaks? by Type44Q · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Does that really apply in this case? This is a political race in Australia. Manning and Snowden have nothing to do with it, different issues, different country.

    If you've been following what's been taking place in Australia over the past decade or so, and if you're not a scumbag shill (mind you, I'm not saying you aren't), then you'd know that they have everything to do with it.

  4. Re:Why wasn't this leaked by Wikileaks? by xQx · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There is a legal requirement for him to physically attend when the senate sits. There is a limited number of sittings that he can miss before his seat is decalared vacant. (I think you covered this)

    I expect his strategy is to get elected, then call on the Australian government / Australian Military to explain how they are sitting idly by while the UK and USA prevent an Australian Senator from executing his elected responsibilities.

  5. Well played. sir. I salute you. by westlake · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sometimes, you have to become the villain in order to achieve an even greater good.

    The end justifies the means.

    The perfect Godwinism never mentions the National Socialist German Workers' Party by name. It simply expresses its core values in their purist form.