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| Updated Title: A Strategy Page Assay on the Delusional Assange - NO Cables or Secrets in Post |
| 2010-12-10 |
| By popular request, Mod change of title has been made. |
| Posted by:Water Modem |
| #4 Interesting article; it's pretty preachy but it's shed some light on the more extreme viewpoints for me. People have been throwing around that Assange is an anti-american socialist quite a bit, but I haven't seen any articles that really back up those claims; does anyone have a link? Here's a link to an analysis of one of his statements which analyzes it better than I can; https://zunguzungu.wordpress.com/2010/11/29/julian-assange-and-the-computer-conspiracy-%E2%80%9Cto-destroy-this-invisible-government%E2%80%9D/# I wish he would stop posting US classified intel, but as long as there's an internet there will be leaks of this nature; if they weren't on WikiLeaks, they would be circulating on torrent sites all over. Focusing on WikiLeaks is ignoring the real problem of how the heck they even got such a trove of classified intel in the first place. The fact that there's no media uproar over the people leaking the info in the first place is what makes me angry; it cant have all been Bradley Manning. It's especially bad because I saw stuff from the DoD even before he posted the helicopter vid that was talking about what would happen if WikiLeaks did post classified intel. |
| Posted by: HEU 2010-12-10 13:09 |
| #3 Much appreciate this article, WM. Good one. A respected author tagging Assange as a sociopath--high time the truth about Assange is leaked, while we're all showing our cards under duress compliments of the little turd. The China face culture part is bad, because China may have to make concessions to the Nork spoiled children on account of the spoiled child remark. The potential for disaster is enormous. Also, the inter-dependance of all countries and getting along with one another is not something I like to see a 39 year old malcontent with hacking skill toying with, legal or illegal, it just is not wholesome or right. Assange the mover and shaker, the liberal face of wikileaks, the poster boy for leftist wingnuts and horny women. |
| Posted by: Fire and Ice 2010-12-10 10:16 |
| #2 FYI, yes I know Colonel Bay wrote the editorial, but Jim's imprimateur is on anything that is put up there like that. The conclusion Col Bay reaches is the same I have heard in certain circles, and is an asessment I agree with: "Assange and ideologues like him promote an ignorant and destructive solipsism that has nothing to do with peace and justice but a lot to do with sociopathic narcissism." Dead on. The costs, in terms of trust, caused by the release of these documents and the destruction of diplomatic capability in the US, and ironically, China, is severe regarding the Korean situation. Assange, with his arrogant eurosocialist hatred of US capitalism, is so monomaniacally obsessed with damaging the US and capitalism (all in the name of socialism) that he has placed the world economy at risk of a world-wide depression with another Korean war, and worse yet, he has put millions of lives at risk in Korea by destroying much of the US and Chinese diplomats' capability to work together to prevent a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula. Yes that's right: he has INCREASED the likelihood of overt war, covert actions and nuclear war, by damaging the very mechanisms western society and the Chinese government have that can prevent such things. Assange, and those supporting him like Anon1, you have done the unconscionable: You have increased the probability of a war, a nuclear war. If such a war comes, you should be hanged as part of justice for the many Koreans that will die due to your ego-maniacal stupidity. Like I said before: people like you are the reason people like me (military) end up bleeding (or dead). Stop thinking you know so much -- you definitively do NOT. Your arrogance and stupidity will get others killed. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2010-12-10 10:16 |
| #1 I disagree with the headline. It has far more applicability than targeting a single poster here at RB. I respect and like Dunnigan's work -- I go back to the mid 1970's with that guy. It deserves wider exposure. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2010-12-10 09:44 |