Who is this clown Julian Assange. Terrorist? Criminal? Scum? Maybe I should not antagonize him, God forbid he reads my blog (as if more than 2 people do and only if they are really, really bored), in fear that he will release some buried details related to my character flaws. I guess I should consider heading him off at the pass. I have many (character flaws). Just ask my wife (she who should be sainted), friends (note: they are still my friends, or at least they claim to be), college roommates (they have probably the most lethal information from my days of delinquency on campus in North Carolina) and parents (if only they knew half of what I did).
So back to the question: "just who is this guy"? He is no crusader. He is no journalist of the ilk involved in the New York Times 1971 expose on Vietnam (using Dept of Defense releases) nor is he either Woodward or Bernstein breaking "deep throat" and Watergate. He is a bad guy who is potentially putting many at risk by compromising the value of the "diplomatic pouch". He has circumnavigated age old courtesy and privilege which enables nations to direct discussions that often avert calamity and misunderstanding. [Let us be clear, not everyone needs to know everything, and not everyone should know everything (in many cases they cannot begin to understand the basics, let alone the subtleties involved). Wikileaks, on the face of it, thinks everyone deserves access to all (but that is not the real purpose, unless you are naïve)].
Wikileaks claims to be a non-profit media organization which is "dedicated to bringing important news and information to the public". Horse puckey. Wikileaks is really just an 7 year old girl on the playground, whispering and gossiping unpleasantries in an attempt to achieve personal gain. "So and so said this or that". "So and so is ugly". "So and so likes so and so", and so on. Wikileaks and Assange appear to be more playground bullies threatening, first nations, now banks and others with the release of information, then true beacon of light and hope.
Look at who has issued supporting credential for Wikileaks. It has received accolades from the likes of Amnesty International and Time Magazine. Consider the sources here. While Amnesty has done some very good work and is very relevant in the field of human rights abuses, it does from time to time throw out a curveball of global proportions driven by a wonderful naïveté we would all like to espouse and yet, in the disappointment of real life, understand is not reality. "Time" is a rag I don't even read in the toilet.
If you take the time to read Assange's manifesto, you will come to realize the true lunatic he is. Aside from any lack of discretion in what he releases or says, this is a guy who clearly fashions himself a Blofeld of Bond proportions. He even has his own underground, now not so secret, lair from which he plots to destroy the world (or at least continue to be a nuisance). Assange believes that by making public secret documents, he will force governments to become even more secretive and thus make them less effective and ultimately, in reducing their effectiveness, create "more open and more morally superior alternatives". He is recluse (a nice way of putting it). A coward, as are most bullies hiding from public eye, by in large, instead of standing up to be seen in all his mud slinging (somewhat like a terrorist in a balaclava who is so devout to his cause yet wants no one to know who he is).
Wikileaks "philosophy. Really? Back to naïve. Does anyone believe this "mission statement"? While I have boiled down and simplified his philosophy here, his clear objective is chaos. Notably, Wikileaks wants to upend a sometime flawed but, in general, system of global cooperation and stability. In its "righteousness" and openness, Wikileaks no longer accepts comments from outside critics. It gets its documents from its bullpen of criminals, which has by its own admission has included Chinese "hackers". How open can an organization be that allows no comments about its behavior? Hypocritical much?
For the nail in the coffin on this clown, Assange himself , arrested in London on the basis of a Swedish warrant (he was released and was pledged bail money by the likes of another blowhard lunatic, US filmmaker Michael "I made one decent movie and now live on my laurels" Moore) related to sex-crime allegations, objected to the disclosure of the details related to his case. Good for the goose, good for the gander?
At the end of the day, Assange is a petulant child. What his motivation really is, other than to create chaos and focus attention on himself is anyone's guess. Maybe it is about his relationship with his mother. Maybe he was picked on in school. Maybe he was left at the alter. Maybe he is just a first rate, morally abject jerk. Whatever the case, he should crawl back into his underground bunker, seal it shut and live his life out like the worthless cave dweller he is, leaving all of us in peace.
Funny, I know another guy, of similar ilk, living in a cave. Some guy Obama something? Somewhere in Afghanistan? Does he need a roommate?
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