There have been many threads on Assange and Wikileaks but none that explore why the US government needs to treat him as the terrorist phariah he is not and try to mobilise foreign governments in an effort to bring about his horrible - but exemplary - demise. If this was a movie, one would view it as a comedy. The man has done no more than any other news agency would have done. But he has embarrassed the Americans (among many others) by haunting them with their own disasters. Americans don't take to embarrassment readily. Heaven knows they should; but they don't. So they have to make an example of anyone who reminds them how much they need to be embarrassed. The whole saga resonates of the Spanish inquisition. Yet American strategists leapt into the fire, not seeing how ridiculous their leaping was. Calls for assassination, imprisonment, and soon, I imagine, public garroting. Does the US not see how comical it is? But I forget. Wit and humour is a trait they did not inherit from their founders.
Uncle Ferd says he shoulda known better than to bend over an' pick up the soap inna shower... Wikileaks Julian Assange lost tooth, was stuck with child molestors in prison, he claims Monday, December 20th 2010, Prison apparently did not agree with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
He is the foreigner, so therefore the fall guy. The US assault on Assange has redirected the news away from the fact that their intelligence organisations are full of holes, with who knows what dripping out for the world to see. But it has served a purpose because if PF is anything to go by, the herd with blinkers in place are following the shepherd who is pointing in a certain direction with his staff (otherwise known as CIA propaganda specialists.)
It is also a useful diversion from the failure of American wars, failure of its education system, failure of its economy, and a host of other failures. Laughably, their attempts to crucify him will also result in failure.
Where was the US's outrage, calling him a terrorist, when he was releasing documents from other countries over the last few years? Oh yeah, they probably viewed that as freedom of the press until it was their turn.
The Swedes have got him for supposed rape. Will they pass him on to the Yanks for his telling to the world the truth about how they operate? Which is, in the US, an act of treason. Their dark secrets are meant to remain dark.
the world economy revolves around the united states so its in the swedish interests to prosecute him for us europeans cannot bite the hand that feeds them even if they know secrets as assange did
