Reuters - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, fighting extradition to Sweden over alleged sex crimes, walked free on bail from a British jail on Thursday protesting his innocence and pledging to continue exposing official secrets.




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Amazed at some of his backers. Big names from across the spectrum are showing support for him.
Still, he has to get through the swedish court case yet.

Originally Posted by Warwick

Amazed at some of his backers. Big names from across the spectrum are showing support for him.
Still, he has to get through the swedish court case yet.

You do realise of course that a month after the main "stinko", no one has as yet found him guilty of having broken any law? Even the Swedish case is on the nose with Swedish prosecutors admitting that it was actually non consensual sex, rather than rape, because his accuser states that he had sex with her whilst she was,.... asleep, whaaa??? He must be some sort of hypnotist.



The question is now being raised in view of the circumstances that the whole thing may be being backed by the CIA as his accuser has previous links to them. Source: http://www.disclose.tv/forum/assange...ve-t37954.html

Hell hath no fury like a Superpower humiliated.

By allowing the leak of just about everything he got, he crossed the line. If he had leaked only cases of wrong doing or illegal activity I think most people, including myself, would have accepted what he did.

Originally Posted by A Can of Man

Hell hath no fury like a Superpower humiliated.

By allowing the leak of just about everything he got, he crossed the line. If he had leaked only cases of wrong doing or illegal activity I think most people, including myself, would have accepted what he did.

That is the whole point,... he has not judged or sorted the material in any way, nor, as someone here suggested, only published that which puts the US in a bad light. He has thrown it all on the table to let people make up their own minds as to what is actually going on.

Tonight on the ABC National News here in Australia, it was stated that the Prime minister was informed much to her displeasure, that he has broken no existing Australian Law.

Yeah, he hasn't. But after pulling off what he did he's going to be under the microscope for a long time. That could be punishment enough on its own. He'll be outside the prison walls but his life will be a jail sentence.

This Manning character on the other hand...
The truth is, HE is the main villain.

Originally Posted by A Can of Man

Yeah, he hasn't. But after pulling off what he did he's going to be under the microscope for a long time. That could be punishment enough on its own. He'll be outside the prison walls but his life will be a jail sentence.

This Manning character on the other hand...
The truth is, HE is the main villain.

Yep, but he is too insignificant to attract much attention. He'll just disappear into some Federal penitentiary for 30 years and just be swallowed up. The people in power know that they will never stop misfits like Manning, but what they do want to do is try and put the fear of god into intelligent thinking men like Assange.

Originally Posted by senojekips

Yep, but he is too insignificant to attract much attention. He'll just disappear into some Federal penitentiary for 30 years and just be swallowed up. The people in power know that they will never stop misfits like Manning, but what they do want to do is try and put the fear of god into intelligent thinking men like Assange.

That wont work either. There will always be anarchists like Assange who are willing to throw molotovs into a forest just in order to watch it burn, Consequences be damned.

I can understand those who believe WikiLeaks is a threat to the safety of our troops and the conduct of our diplomatic goals. Some material is classified for a reason. But we must realize that there is not much we can do to stop WikiLeaks.

So instead of our governments are trying to stop WikiLeaks, maybe what they should do is wake up to reality and realize that we now live in a world where the Internet finally makes government more transparent.

Yeah I think Assagne really is about societal hate rather than anything else. His own "rage against the machine" if you will.
I think he started off honest enough but he let his success get to his head and now he's using his new found power to just piss on everyone.