Interesting story tonight on Foreign correspondent on Julian Assange. I know he's the poster boy of Shooting the breeze, but it sounds like he got a bit caught up in his own self importance.
Anyone watch it?
I don't think he's a knob - just think he blew one too many over on the septics and they've sicced the CIA/FBI thugs on him ... they of course latched onto the rape thingy because it's probably the only thing they had.
No world hero for mine,but how about that bunker full of electromadness!
Only caught the last few minutes so can't really comment on the show. That said, I do think he suffers from his own self importance, as you say. Still, I'm fairly happy that he's there spilling at least some of the beans so if he's out, I hope someone else steps up.
I watched the show. Yeah he is up himself but, and it's a big but, he is showing the emperor has no clothes. Big government, big business, it's all the same. A few at the top profiting from the masses. If a few rag heads get killed in the process who cares?
When Gillard and Co basically said Assange was a traitor I was disgusted. She showed herself not to be fit for the job as PM.
When those American politicians threatened him, Gillard should have got on the phone to Beasly in Washington and told him to get it out there that and tell the yanks they can't go around threatening to kill Australians!
Hero of the world for what he does, Knob because he poses for News Journo Photogs for file fodder.
Only caught the last 5 minutes myself, but they should have employed some more professionals before they went public, because it proves no matter what you've got, they gonna make ya look like a goat blower even if you're a Lesbian militant.
Assange is put out there to get your trust.
example...well if 911 was an inside job,Julian sure would have exposed it.
he does not question any part of the official fairytale,believing the passports that fell rather conveniently are stronger and more resistant to disintegration than steel and concrete!
In my view the fact that Assange may be full of himself (I think he likes the spotlight) does not preclude the fact that he digs up stuff that would not have been disclosed otherwise.
Else the world is solely at the mercy of the US inventing WMD stories in the name of 'national security'. And lacqueys like Howard agreeing that we have to go and get Aussies killed in some God-forsaken countries. (or as recently as 2009 say we need to send more troops in risk of "losing the war").
From the story last night it went something along the lines that the main password for the wikileaks portal was published in a book written by Guardian journalists. Once word got out a former volunteer with wikileaks tried the password out and found he could see everything. By the time Assange found out it was too late to know who had what. So he decided to make everything public.
It did not sound like he intended to publish information that could endanger someone's life as he had not done this before. Are there any examples where people named have suffered from retaliation besides people like Tony Blair sucking up to pigs like Assad and Ghadaffi?
Wait, wait ...what? The Wikileaks password is so static that a book can be published before it is changed? That's so, so ironic.
PS why did they include the password in a book, unless it was a really interesting one?
Really? That's completely bizarre. Got any links to the news article (or whatever)?
I think I've just downgraded my assessment of Assange to complete knob!
It's so funny how we always get sucked in to judging a person by how he portrayed in the media.
After all these years of crappy reporting (especially on the ABC) you'd think we'd learn by now to take a shovel full of salt with any TV report.
Hero or knob?
I wouldn't know because I never met the man.
