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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. Re:Why wasn't this leaked by Wikileaks? by LordLucless · · Score: 5, Informative

    Preferences are public knowledge. It was out in the open - how do you think people know about it? Investigative reporting? In Australia? Heh.

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  2. All minor parties are teaming together by Yynatago · · Score: 5, Informative

    No surprise here. All the minor parties are doing the same thing. The Australian sex party is preferencing Pauline Hanson's Australia First Party ahead of Greens.

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  3. 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

  4. 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.