Where’s Waldo—er, I mean Julian Assange?
We much prefer Assange, our international man of mystery to look like James Bond of double oh seven fame, but for better or worse we are presented with the looks and likes of and eccentric looking Assange.
The grass is always greener when there are no sides, eh? Love him or hate him, he has chosen to piss off a whole bunch of people and opened a lot of people eyes to the doings of politics in releasing classified documents on Wikileaks. Can anyone recall the name of the soldier who supposedly gave up the information in the first place?
Bradley Manning.
While Manning has already been arrested, Interpol has issued a “red notice” for the arrest of Wikileaks’ Julian Assange, stemming from the sexual assault charges against him in Sweden. Funny thing is they have no picture of him. http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101130/16292712063/interpol-really-couldnt-find-photo-julian-assange-issuing-arrest-warrant.shtml.
From a November 30, 2010 Time magazine interview, Assange said:
Now for the United States, its government actually has more information available to it than any other government. And so it is already in a symmetric position. I think this disclosure of diplomatic information, which is often third-hand, will allow people to understand more clearly these sort of broad activities of the U.S. State Department, which acts not, of course, in the interest of the U.S. people but in the interest of the State Department. Read more: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2034040-2,00.html#ixzz16tZDs3B8
Not in the interest of the people? We wonder just which people he is referring to and which special interest would be better served? Would he like to see more or less of a socialistic government, in the name of the people?
Essays on conspiracies by Julian Assange (me@iq.org) are becoming harder to find though as of today, can be read at http://cryptome.org/0002/ja-conspiracies.pdf
The introduction includes this quote from Theodore Roosevelt, “Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.”
No wonder Atlas Shrugged is back on the best seller lists! And no wonder Assange has pissed so many off. Are we crying foul at the message or the messenger?
But, the big news on Assange isn’t that he has been detained but that there is more to come. A MoneyScience tweet: According to this interview with Julian Assange WikiLeaks’ next target will be a major American bank. http://bit.ly/gMOZia.
Hmmm the government runs the people, the banks, and what else? Is it any wonder that the Pentagon and Interpol are looking for him to shut him up? I wonder if the Rockefeller family knows his wearabouts? Maybe his attorney, who is also rumored to be representing George Soros, knows?
Phrased from http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/2010/06/11/pentagon-hunting-wikileaks-founder-in-attempt-to-shut-him-up/ How’s that “transparency in government” working out for you Libtards?
Where is Waldo indeed? Check your apps and ipads for A Where’s Assange Fun Fact Book coming soon.
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well, YEAH. But they weren’t.
I used to work in data processing, tho not web-based. I’d tell clients, you can’t make something loose and tight at the same time. Information both needs to move and needs to be prevented from moving; it’s tricky. My other saying was, “there’s no test like production.” That’s just how it is.
I canthink of two things:
1. overclassification: I suspect this happens based on “better safe than sorry” thinking, and a need to make rushed decisions. Less classification of documents as secret would allow more careful monitoring of the ones that are.
2. Redundancy in auditing. It is a mystery how – if it is indeed true – a PFC could route so much information on his own. Both automated monitoring of data volume and typ, and hands-on auditing are needed. Given the push for smaller government, it is entirely possible that staffing is insufficient.
The vulnerabilities of the Internet w regards to classified information should have been fixed well in advance of Manning and Assange’s behavior.
Assange is a narcissistic, humourless, know-it-all twerp who is fast turning into the very government he so criticizes inasmuch as he has, like the government, decided for us what information should be revealed or not. I believe he is indifferent as to whether harm could be done by his leaks, as he claims the US govt is in withholding them. Here, try this; substitute Assange for State Dept:
“these sort of broad activities of the U.S. State Department, which acts not, of course, in the interest of the U.S. people but in the interest of the State Department. ”
as in – – –
“these sort of broad activities of Mr. Assange, which acts not, of course, in the interest of the U.S. people but in the interest of Mr. Assange.”
I think the shoe fits.
In releasing a buttload of raw data, sans analysis, he forfeits any claim to journalism, and his release, be it one document or a billion, is as selective as any report on Fox or MSNB.
Is he a rapist? I think the intrigue lies here; Assange reserves the right to penetrate (and tell) at will. Sounds pretty rape-y to me.
For all that Ellsberg is fawning over him, I see no resemblance to the Pentagon Papers, or even to Larry Flynt’s mailings in Cincinnati (I lived there at the time). Assange’s sole value is in exposing the vulnerabilities of the internet, which I expect will be fixed.
In defense of WikiLeaksters; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gpmi7dBet0c
Maybe he is hiding with Osama?