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Julian Assange Trying To Raise Nearly $200k For a Statue of Himself
Rei writes Julian Assange, from his refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy, has recently taken to Twitter to try to raise nearly $200,000 for a life-size bronze statue of himself. The statue would have him standing front and center between Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning (with Manning pictured as male); the art piece would be then shipped around the world on tour.
if someone else suggests it, that's fine. you don't go around asking for people to literally 'idolize' you.
Perhaps someone should introduce Julian to Marcus Porcius Cato.
It's like what Jeffrey Dahmer said to Chelsea Manning...
"Well, you gonna eat that?"
Game: Player 'Donald J Trump' now has AI skill level 'experimental'.
"Classy. I'm really glad for wikileaks and all, but christ, what an asshole."
Nice job on getting the first comment (score: 4).
Too bad it means you didn't take the time to look into what's actually going on.
Then you would've found out The Independent is just making stuff up.
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/542760505082142720
sums it up:
@Independent A retweet by WikiLeaks does not equal Assange "spear heading" a funding drive--but you knew that.
And, of course, Slashdot 'retweets' this, because it gives lots of clicky-di-clicks (= ads = money).
Move along, nothing to see here.
TFA says the statue is being donated, the money is for transportation.
More accurate headline: "Artist proposes, donates personal time and money to make statues, Assange hosts fundraiser to transport and display works."
Maybe Assange would have been more circumspect to remain completely out of the mix. But that's his call, maybe he liked the idea.
Maybe all the flamers here would like the idea too if someone offered to make a bronze statue of them. But no-one did. ;)
Sent from my ENIAC
Obviously this is his method of escape. He will conceal himself inside the statue, and then it will be shipped to Russia, among other places.
.....so I truly regret drawing your attention to paragraph 7 of the article:
"The idea for the statue came from Mr Dormino and Charles Glass, an American author, journalist and broadcaster. British journalist Vaughan Smith, with whom Mr Assange stayed while he was on bail in 2010, is organising the Kickstarter campaign."
Furthermore, Mr Smith added:
“If you look at the statues we do have, they’re mostly of people who've done various things during our past in conflict and killed rather a lot of people. I think it’s refreshing to have a statue that’s perhaps owned by the public a little bit more.”
Shame...........um Assange. Shame.
Carbonite, FTW!
"National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
If he would have used a Trojan, he wouldn't be in the trouble he is now.
Have gnu, will travel.
a large wooden badger was considered, but then rejected.
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"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
That's why most customs stations now feature a special security check. An agent taps lightly on every statue going through customs, whispers "we're here", and then waits a bit to see if anything happens.
Holy shit what a fucking insightful opinion. Mod parent to 5! Nobody else thought this initially and had the bold cavalier mental fortitude to just fucking post it... without wondering if there's really any truth to this.
--- We need more Ron Paul!
How does one vote the OP as flame-bate? Julian isn't raising the money, he isn't even promoting it. He just re-tweeted about it. This has to be the most purposefully misleading post I've ever seen on slash dot.
Think globally but act within local variable scope.
well yeah, since nowadays if you out that one government branch is lying to another, then you're a traitor if you out that information.
which seems kind of fucked up - get your fucking agencies in a leash, you're bleeding money to fuckups who ruin your reputation and provide you with no service whatsoever.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
My first reaction was, too, "my, how much of an ego can one single man have?"
Then I was pondering who we're talking about. And who he pissed off.
And then I was pondering whether I can actually trust anything I hear about him. I mean, if I was a country with more funds than dear God himself, would I be above slander?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
You'll have to excuse the grossly misleading headline and summary, I just noticed it's posted by Rei.
Rei turns up on Slashdot every time an Assange story turns up. She's mentioned before that she was a victim of assault, and so has basically decided to make it her life long internet crusade to ensure that any man accused of rape is determined to be guilty, and fuck the law and all that.
She likes to sound intelligent by throwing in random Swedish words like the Swedish version of "the accused" as if it somehow makes her sound more intelligent, but honestly it just comes across as plain weird, I really to this day cannot understand why you'd write out a paragraph in English and just throw in a few otherwise directly translatable words in Swedish other than to try and pretend you have more of a clue than you actually do.
But don't take my word for it. She's already spreading her bile in this discussion already:
http://news.slashdot.org/comme...
"Rape fugitive"? yeah sure Rei, that doesn't sound like a loaded description of someone who has neither been found guilty of rape, nor even been charged for rape, but merely wanted for questioning. Oh let me guess, the tired old "but Sweden can't charge someone without doing it on their soil!". Bollocks. Completely false. Sweden can do this and have done this. They haven't done it because they're not far enough along in their investigation yet. Sweden isn't far along enough in it's investigation yet because it refuses to question Assange anywhere other than on it's soil even though it can and has done this for many other suspects in the past. All of this is mentioned black and white in places like this, by journalists that have actually done their homework, unlike propagandist man-haters like Rei:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/worl...
In fact, Sweden's own courts recently criticised Assange's prosecutors for not being willing to move the case forward by simply questioning him in the UK or via video link:
http://www.svea.se/Om-Svea-hov...
To quote:
"The Court of Appeal notes, however, that the investigation into the suspected crimes has come to a halt and considers that the failure of the prosecutors to examine alternative avenues is not in line with their obligation â" in the interests of everyone concerned â" to move the preliminary investigation forward."
Honestly I've not bothered before, but it's getting tiresome seeing the same old biased hatred filled trash coming from her. It's become impossible to have a rational discussion on Slashdot about the whole Assange thing with her bile and random nonsensical insertion of an arbitrary selection of Swedish words. Yes it sucks what happened to you Rei, but that doesn't mean that we should just throw all semblance of justice and reason out the window just for you.
It's basically become Rei's own personal bitch the fuck out of Assange space. Go away Rei, Slashdot isn't yours, you don't get to unilaterally set the fucking agenda and shame on the editors for allowing it in this case.
Of course we, the UK tax payers, stuck in the middle are footing the bill for this Swedish prosecution caused farce that people like Rei are so quick to defend because of their own personal issues:
https://govwaste.co.uk/
Rapists should be hung, drawn, and quartered, and the widespread failure by authorities globally to deal with sexual assault and obtain convictions in cases where they should is a major problem. Conviction rates seem to be from a statistical standpoint unrealistically low, and it needs to change. But when a prosecution can't even be bothered to determine that someone is one and actively avoids doing so then it doesn't instil confidence that they gen
And so, after many years. Slashdot is being removed from my bookmarks bar. This bit of poorly-sourced, shameless click-bait is the final straw. It was fun for awhile.