UPDATE: JULIAN ASSANGE Freed!

Yup, next it is going to be renamed the F word!

Glad he is some what free and hopefully he can finish what he started.

 

i never heard of this jullian guy,but he is sexy as hell..well i mean hmmm...well he WAS in my opnion if he didnt cut off his long hair!..):i like long hair...arghh wish so many guys didnt chop it off,it seems they do that these days..either they think its gay or just cuz its not fashionable anymore.err or something...anyways well..half the population aint attractive to me anymore...lol

 

i kinda thought he looks a bit like david duchovny in that picture..lol i used to be an x files fan.. well still am..

 

I think that as soon as he is done with all the little loose ends in his life and all he will probably see a stylist.

 

ahhhh!! my god!...ok ok bad lighting!..LMAO

 

Translation please. It almost makes sense. But it's not clear what you're trying to say.

 

The Russians love him !!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/09/julian-assange-nobel-peace-prize

 

thats good news to me mates rock on!!!!!!

 

The man speaks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NouXB5JACCw"]YouTube - Newsnight: Bailed Julian Assange live interview (16Dec10)

 

That woman is a moron...

Her attention span however reflects the typical mind... She spent most of the interview impatiently trying to interrupt him so she could say the word rape a few more times while he tried to answer her questions.

 

I'd still like to know how he's getting all that supposedly classified information, and from whom. Why aren't his informants being arrested too? And why isn't the press asking the same questions?

And I would say that being out on bail with an electronic tracking device, with your every move being watched, hardly constitutes being "free".

 

^^^ yes, you can see quite clearly, by her very choice of questions, the smear campaign in action...

for those who haven't seen this yet... the following, i've copied and pasted...



Dear friends,


The chilling intimidation campaign against WikiLeaks (when they have broken no laws) is an attack on freedom of the press and democracy. We urgently need a massive public outcry to stop the crackdown -- let's get to 1 million voices and take out full page ads in US newspapers this week!




The massive campaign of intimidation against WikiLeaks is sending a chill through free press advocates everywhere.

Legal experts say WikiLeaks has likely broken no laws. Yet top US politicians have called it a terrorist group and commentators have urged assassination of its staff. The organization has come under massive government and corporate attack, but WikiLeaks is only publishing information provided by a whistleblower. And it has partnered with the world's leading newspapers (NYT, Guardian, Spiegel etc) to carefully vet the information it publishes.

The massive extra-judicial intimidation of WikiLeaks is an attack on democracy. We urgently need a public outcry for freedom of the press and expression. Sign the petition to stop the crackdown and forward this email to everyone -- let's get to 1 million voices and take out full page ads in US newspapers this week!

http://www.avaaz.org/en/wikileaks_petition/?vl

WikiLeaks isn't acting alone -- it's partnered with the top newspapers in the world (New York Times, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, etc) to carefully review 250,000 US diplomatic cables and remove any information that it is irresponsible to publish. Only 800 cables have been published so far. Past WikiLeaks publications have exposed government-backed torture, the murder of innocent civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, and corporate corruption.

The US government is currently pursuing all legal avenues to stop WikiLeaks from publishing more cables, but the laws of democracies protect freedom of the press. The US and other governments may not like the laws that protect our freedom of expression, but that's exactly why it's so important that we have them, and why only a democratic process can change them.

Reasonable people can disagree on whether WikiLeaks and the leading newspapers it's partnered with are releasing more information than the public should see. Whether the releases undermine diplomatic confidentiality and whether that's a good thing. Whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has the personal character of a hero or a villain. But none of this justifies a vicious campaign of intimidation to silence a legal media outlet by governments and corporations. Click below to join the call to stop the crackdown:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/wikileaks_petition/?vl

Ever wonder why the media so rarely gives the full story of what happens behind the scenes? This is why - because when they do, governments can be vicious in their response. And when that happens, it's up to the public to stand up for our democratic rights to a free press and freedom of expression. Never has there been a more vital time for us to do so.

With hope,
Ricken, Emma, Alex, Alice, Maria Paz and the rest of the Avaaz team.

SOURCES:

Law experts say WikiLeaks in the clear (ABC)
http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2010/s3086781.htm

WikiLeaks are a bunch of terrorists, says leading U.S. congressman (Mail Online)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...s-says-leading-US-congressman-Peter-King.html

Cyber guerrillas can help US (Financial Times)
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d3dd7c40-ff15-11df-956b-00144feab49a.html#axzz17QvQ4Ht5

Amazon drops WikiLeaks under political pressure (Yahoo)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20101201/tc_afp/usdiplomacyinternetwikileakscongressamazon

"WikiLeaks avenged by hacktivists" (PC World):
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscent...payback_wikileaks_avenged_by_hacktivists.html

US Gov shows true control over Internet with WikiLeaks containment (Tippett.org)
http://www.tippett.org/2010/12/us-gov-shows-true-control-over-internet-with-wikileaks-containment/

US embassy cables culprit should be executed, says Mike Huckabee (The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/01/us-embassy-cables-executed-mike-huckabee

WikiLeaks ditched by MasterCard, Visa. Who's next? (The Christian Science Monitor)
http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation...iLeaks-ditched-by-MasterCard-Visa.-Who-s-next

Assange's Interpol Warrant Is for Having Sex Without a Condom (The Slatest)
http://slatest.slate.com/id/2276690/

 

It constitutes freedom compared to being locked away in solitary confinement with no communication from the outside.

Besides which... With or without the tracking device, he will be watched no matter where he goes now, he is as free as he will ever be again.

The whole point of wikileaks is to protect those who give them their information. They may not always succeed, but the reason they ALL aren't being arrested, is because wikileaks is doing what it promised them it would... Protecting their source.

 

If they had a clearcut case against him, he would have been indicted by now. They are cooking some baloney up in the shadows of backrooms in Washington. The brits are of course more than willing to comply. More bailout relief?
The 1917 Espionage Act, where the US ran around locking up German immigrants, like they did the American Japanese in WWII. Anything suspicious at all, and in the slammer you go. They also tore down Tesla's huge broadcast tower on Long Island in 1917 using the same Espionage Act.
Read your history, and maybe we won't have to suffer through all the bullshit we have in the past.
The so called Elites are the ones after Assange. They are the same guys who have dumbed down the education system to the point where education is a fucking joke, and the people who come out on the other end don't know how to think and are just cookie cutter images of quasi educated peasants who obey their masters slightest wishes.
Think about Martin Luther (no, not King) the German Reformer. He exposed State secrets, he used cutting edge technology at the time in the form of the printing press, and moveable type. He was threatened with death, Hell, imprisonment, torture, etc...
He stood up to the elites, and the people stood with him, and the result was significant change for the better for everybody but the elites.
You had better wake up and smell the roses here, we either get behind Assange, or we will slide off into another dark age, where the elites control everything.
Think people, think, think, think, use you damn heads for something beside a convenient place to hang your hat!

 

LOL ... I realize that, but that's not what I was talking about. The real "criminals" (or "heroes", depending on which side you're on), if there are any, are the people who are actually revealing the classified information. Not Assange. He's just a mouthpiece.

Look at it this way ... would you say that Woodward/Bernstein were the "heroes" of Watergate, or was it the "Deep Throat" character who actually came forward and revealed the information, at great risk to himself?

Ah, so freedom is relative? Having some rich celebrities spring for your bail as their "cause du jour", only to be monitored and required to report daily is a pyrrhic victory at best.

Stock phrases for "you dared to have an opinion different from mine!" How presumptuous to say that anyone who disagrees with you can't "think".

 

Oh I agree with you about that... But at least one of those sources is thought to be known and has been arrested and charged, and very likely will spend the rest of his life in jail (regardless of the sentence he gets).

If the US could identify more of wikileaks sources, they would definitely press charges on it... That's why I was a little confused as to what you were talking about...

The US government (who is the enemy in this case for sure), aren't ignoring the leakers in favor of trying to go after Julian... They don't know who to go after, BECAUSE of him... And what they are trying to do is make it clear that if you do what he does, they will attack in any and all manners that they can in order to protect themselves, REGARDLESS of the laws.

 

Lol if they need any information from his brain they can get it w/o difficulty...

 

Her name is Kirsty Wark.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirsty_Wark

In June 2007, Wark clashed with Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnQPptuG8uM"]interview

over his response to a memorandum of understanding between the UK Government and Libya regarding prisoner exchanges. Salmond feared that this could include Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, who was convicted by a Scottish court for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie.

The BBC, after having received 120 formal complaints, issued a public apology to Salmond regretting the "rude and dismissive" tone of the presenter. A spokesman for the First Minister said that Alex Salmond accepted the BBC's apology. According to Newsnight editor Peter Barron, some viewers questioned the premise of the interview; that the new SNP government appeared to be picking a fight with London. Other viewers thought that Wark's line of questioning was too aggressive and therefore discourteous. The biggest controversy, however, regarded how the interview ended. According to Barron, time constraints forced Wark to end the questioning abruptly, leading him to perceive her behaviour as "rude and dismissive."

Television critic A. A. Gill has criticised her hosting of the "embarrassingly rubbish" Newsnight Review, describing her as a "taut and trite Edinburgh cultural stamp collector".

Assange is a bit of a player.
Were these women hurt by his behaviour?
I would be.

I think she was trying to stop him (assange) from making it his own soap-box.

 

What exactly is it that would have caused you (or them), to be hurt?

As for the soap box part... She was using her soap box to try to keep him off his? lol