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Julian Assange is a vindictive, repulsive prick. The Ecuadorian embassy turned him over to British police because that's exactly how he behaved towards them. British newspapers report he threw temper tantrums, smeared feces on walls and refused to clean up after himself and his cat. And these were the people protecting him! He sounds like a badly behaved toddler, not a free speech hero.
Several real international free speech organizations begged him to black out information that put people's lives at risk. He demanded $700K to do that. Then he just spewed it all out. Several wikileaks board members resigned because of this.
People died because of him.
timon_phocas
Level 9
Apr 13, 2019
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Whoa what?
Being a vindictive, repulsive prick is a characterization not a crime.
The Ecuadorian embassy withdrew asylum because the newly elected president (also a vindictive, repulsive prick) wanted his "Swiss Bank Account" enhanced by a $42b IMF (a cabal of vindictive, repulsive pricks) "loan" that just got approved.
Why didn't they warn him and give a real truth loving country the opportunity to put up with his "bad behavior". You're willing to believe British newspapers - the same fake news newspapers that vilify Tommy and Jayda?
People died because of the behavior he exposed not because of the exposure. The exposure may have limited the number to just thousands.
If any of the criminals participating in the actions he exposed did die (for which there is no proof), I'd say "Good Riddance!"
Howdy,
The US is charging Julian Assange with helping the erstwhile Bradley Manning to hack passwords into databases the erstwhile Mr Manning had no access to. All characterizations aside, that is a crime.
The real responsibility for the massive subsequent leaks lies with a quota obsessed Army bureaucracy that put a twitchy flake into the Army and kept him there.
But the post wasn't about responsibility, it was about Julian Assange being a, "free speech hero." Reinhold Neibuhr was a free speech hero. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a free speech hero. Julian Assange is a vindictive, repulsive prick.
I don't know the guy, but he publicized a lot dirt on Obama's agenda.
Julian is not a free speech hero. His actions have nothing to do with free speech. He has simply provided historical documents of real people working, living, playing... For those people supposedly working for me (i.e. politicans and public employees) I declare I have a right to see everything anyways and will form my own support or condemnation theories and consequential actions. As for the living and playing stuff, If you make a record and it gets "published" I'll decide the morality of it including the morality of the person exposing it. If you don't want exposure then don't do the activity - at least don't make a record of it. Standing up for or at least admitting to what the record shows is where the morality issue lives - the exposure itself is only fortunate or unfortunate for the players. Julian is a truth exposer.
cRaZyTMG
Level 7
Apr 13, 2019
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Howdy cRaZyRMG,
Truth be told, as a history buff and an old database administrator, I would love to download it all and set it up in a data warehouse. It is an invaluable look into US foreign and military policies.
OTOH, it's only available because of a traitor. Depressing and intriguing at the same time.
@timon_phocas send it to wikileaks
I believe that all of his releases have been verified as true. I have no problem supporting him as long as no innocent parties come to harm as a result of his leaks. I wish him happiness and safety, and thank him for his service to humanity.
waynemosteller
Level 3
Apr 13, 2019
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Except the fact that innocent people were harmed and killed. Examples are the Afghani civilians that were working for US in construction, translators, truck drivers and more. US asked him to redact the names of those civilians for the fear kf retaliation from Taliban and Al Qaeda. He refused, Taliban got a hold of the names and hunted down and killed many of those poor Afghanis. Assange also released personal information of innocent people, their ss#, credit cards and other, to the public, leading to fraud, identity theft. The judge in UK described him correctly when he said that Assange behaved like a narcissist.
@Scanderbeg In those cases he is culpable, and should be punished.
publicizing classified information might be a heroic act but it has nothing to do with free speech. The two things are not related.
iThink
Level 9
Apr 13, 2019
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I don't think it has MUCH to do with free speeche. But there is an underlying theme of criticizing what your not supposed to.
@HyenaOvercast He didnt criticize, he published classified list of peoples names and their personal ss#, credit cards and many other damaging information to complete innocent people leading to destruction and even death in some cases in Afghanistan. Afghani contractors got hunted down by the Taliban and al qaeda after they learned the identity of the afghani " collaborators"
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