You know, really, this whole Julian Assange/Wikileaks case is pretty fascinating.
Most Americans likely don't know much of Wikileaks other than that they first released 90,000 files on the Afghanistan War earlier this year and then more recently, just released approximately 250,000 more files, of somewhat random material, all from our own government.
The fact is, if you go to the Wikipedia site for Wikileaks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks), you can find they've really had a pretty good go, internationally, of exposing corruption and pollution and other topics, all over the globe. They've, so far, had a pretty good run.
But this last release I spoke of above, with the 250,000 files, seems to be a bit of a low point for both Wikileaks and their founder, this Julian Assange.
The material they released didn't really seem to pin down any real or specific "sins" of the US--or any other country. It all seemed just a hodge-podge of information, released because they could. A big release for release sake. So what if someone said Germany's Angela Merkel isn't "creative"? Who cares? It's all about blown over, even now.
What starts to get fascinating, though, is the charges out of Sweden just now for Mr. Assange. This is the second time for it but he's finally being formally charged, this time with two charges of sexual misconduct.
Interpol issued a high alert for Assange on Wednesday at the request of Sweden. Assange has maintained his innocence and called the charges in Sweden a smear campaign.
You have to wonder if Sweden is correct and he really did these wrong things or if he just pissed off way too many people, in way too high positions and now it's all going to come down on him.
It's getting curioser and curioser.
It should be even more fascinating to see this all unfold.
Link: http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/12/01/assange.profile/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+rss/cnn_topstories+(RSS:+Top+Stories)
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yes, interesting to see Larry Klayman backing him.
I'm just glad Assange is Australian
Have you read any of of Julian's essays about his reasons for Wikileaks? I have some major disagreements, but it's interesting reading:
Original Blog
Anaylsis of his paper
I've been following Wikileaks for a long while, it's an interesting idea. Amazing to me how much fear publicity creates.
I wouldn't be surprised to see the accusations here against him be true, but I also don't think a "bad person" necessarily can't do good or effective things in other areas. The abuse allegations should be looked at on their own merits.
I've read interviews of him and some writings about him but not enough and I haven't read as much that comes straight from him yet. I'll do that.
Without doubt, the accusations need to be looked into, for sure. Until then--and I'm not defending him--he's innocent until proven guilty.
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