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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 he's referring to Cato the Younger, he's referring to integrity and Assange's lack of same.
HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.
"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. ;)
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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.
If he would have used a Trojan, he wouldn't be in the trouble he is now.
Have gnu, will travel.
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!
Nah, the reference is to Cato the Elder. He was once asked if he minded the fact that there was no statue to him; he replied that he would rather have no statue and people asking "why not" than have a statue and people asking "why".
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.
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I can't tell you how happy it makes me to see some love for Cato the Elder. (I'm writing my PhD thesis on him, and yet when people ask what I'm studying and I tell them, no one ever knows who he is).