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Ghostwriter Reveals the Secret Life of WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange
An anonymous reader writes "From the Telegraph, 'He is vain, secretive, paranoid and jealous, prone to leering at young women and making frequent sexist jokes – and that's not the view of one of his many enemies, but of a friend ... A damning picture of Julian Assange ... has emerged in a detailed account by his ghostwriter. Assange behaves ... like an egotistical tyrant interested more in his own self-publicity than in changing the world. Worse still, he turns on his friends with increasing regularity ... Assange describes the Ecuadorean ambassador offering him diplomatic asylum as 'mad', 'fat' and 'ludicrous'. Even Assange's girlfriend, WikiLeaks researcher Sarah Harrison, grew increasingly frustrated at his behaviour. 'He openly chats girls up and has his hands on their a**e and goes nuts if I even talk to another guy,' she says. O'Hagan, who had hoped to find an anti-authoritarian rebel figure worthy of admiration, says he comes to regard Assange as someone who sacrificed the moral high-ground by attempting to evade trial over the rape charges.' — The Scotsman adds, 'Canongate director Jamie Byng yesterday hailed O'Hagan's account of the "impossibility of trying to ghost Assange's memoirs". He tweeted: "Andy O'Hagan's compelling, ring side account of Being (& being around) Julian Assange is smart, accurate and fair."'"
If you can't win: Ad Hominem.
That is one of the key tactics that has been used against Assange's critics. How many terrible things have been said about the women who filed a complaint against him for sexual assault? Assange's defenders use that tactic with regularity, and seethe when anything is said against him. That includes mod bombs on Slashdot.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
Sweden is the feminist and PC capital of the world. The definition of rape there is so broad, and the people so indoctrinated into the victim complex inherent in identity politics, that the probability of false accusations is very high. The fact this accusation came out only after wikileaks makes it even more suspect. What better way to both discredit someone, globally, and deny him asylum in a crazy pc, yet otherwise politically ideal (asylum wise) place like Sweden than with false accusations of sexual misconduct? I think this was done under pressure (or via a cia OP) from the us government because, otherwise, Sweden would've been an ideal candidate for asylum.
Not that any of this is relevant to the ramifications of what he exposed.