o/t Julian Assange, dirty tricks?
Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 7:20 pm
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/in-dept ... 5967241332
I've still not made up my mind what I think about Wikileaks, but I sure don't trust governments.
What one foreign leader thinks of another or that Prince Andrew is a bit of a twat are hardly cutting edge. I would EXPECT foreign and indeed our own dignitaries to file such reports. Hardly earth shattering. But then they also released stuff like this film...
http://www.collateralmurder.com/
...where the US Government were refusing to release the film to Reuters, despite it being their journalists who were shot dead and an application under the US Freedom of Information Act.
Now Julian Assange is facing sexual assault charges in Sweden. This is despite an earlier hearing in Sweden saying there was no case to answer. Now a different court, in a different area of Sweden has issued the warrant. What chances he is extradited to Sweden and then extradited to the USA? Or of course, slips in the snow and bangs his head on release?
I don't generally do conspiracy theories, although I keep an open mind. In this case though...
Oh yeah, and finding Wikileaks is harder than finding information about Tienanmen Square massacre when I was in a Chinese hotel
I've still not made up my mind what I think about Wikileaks, but I sure don't trust governments.
What one foreign leader thinks of another or that Prince Andrew is a bit of a twat are hardly cutting edge. I would EXPECT foreign and indeed our own dignitaries to file such reports. Hardly earth shattering. But then they also released stuff like this film...
http://www.collateralmurder.com/
...where the US Government were refusing to release the film to Reuters, despite it being their journalists who were shot dead and an application under the US Freedom of Information Act.
Now Julian Assange is facing sexual assault charges in Sweden. This is despite an earlier hearing in Sweden saying there was no case to answer. Now a different court, in a different area of Sweden has issued the warrant. What chances he is extradited to Sweden and then extradited to the USA? Or of course, slips in the snow and bangs his head on release?
I don't generally do conspiracy theories, although I keep an open mind. In this case though...
Oh yeah, and finding Wikileaks is harder than finding information about Tienanmen Square massacre when I was in a Chinese hotel