Re: Wikileaks: what we know so far

by Big Dog on Wed Dec 08, 2010 8:20 pm

Bradman wrote:
Big Dog wrote:
Bradman wrote:
Allan D wrote:Also another triumph for the EAW as here:

European Arrest Warrant: Prominent Cases

I thought we were in Europe to uphold the rule of law, evidently not. Why didn't the Australian High Commissioner turn up in court to demand Assange's release? Krudd seems supremely indifferent to Assange's fate. I didn't even realise he was still in the government let alone Foreign Minister. Wouldn't fancy the prospect of being an Aussie abroad while he's still in charge.

Ask David Hicks about high level help from an Australian government.

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There is just a tad difference in that Hicks was a self confessed Jihadist.

No he was actually a total farkwit. But he shouldn't have been held for that long without trial. I couldn't have cared less if the US tried him and shot him in Bumfark. Alabama, if only for rank stupidity. But you don't hold people without trial if you're claiming to be the good guys.

Quite frankly, i think the ****** should still be there.

by vilkrang on Thu Dec 09, 2010 12:24 am

Allan D wrote:
Josh Carney wrote:One of the claims was that he forced himself on one of the girls when she was asleep.

I'm cancelling my sex tourist holiday in Gothenburg, that's for sure. I'm thinking of going to Newcastle-on-Tyne, instead. The women don't give a flying f**k there.

Indeed they don't Very Happy

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by Allan D on Thu Dec 09, 2010 4:18 am

Are you running any Forum member tours, Vik?

drool

by vilkrang on Thu Dec 09, 2010 4:31 am

I'm moving back down south soon I'm afraid, but all you really need to do is sit on a bench and someone will jump on.

by Lara Lara Laughs on Thu Dec 09, 2010 7:30 am

Did someone just use one of Glen Beck's semi-retarded, nutcase blackboard lectures to "prove" something?!

*head explodes*

by Allan D on Thu Dec 09, 2010 11:35 am

Lara Lara Laughs wrote:Did someone just use one of Glen Beck's semi-retarded, nutcase blackboard lectures to "prove" something?!

*head explodes*

Did you watch it? Unusually, you may have ended up agreeing with most of it, if you had, and it was quite informative 9and amusing) about JA's (tangled) sex life. Publishing leaked documents certainly does have its fringe benefits, it appears, as long as you don't enjoy them in Sweden and you stay out of the range of a European Arrest Warrant.

by vilkrang on Thu Dec 09, 2010 11:43 am

It was pretty much the only thing I've ever agreed with him on to be fair.

by Josh Carney on Thu Dec 09, 2010 4:49 pm

Hmm more insight into Assange:

link

by Josh Carney on Thu Dec 09, 2010 6:15 pm

This is so ironic the man who gets his kicks/power by outing confidential "assesments / thoughts" of people in power on others is now at the receiving end. Would have been poetic justice if these revalations about Julian from one his co workers had also been pusblished as a leak.

by skully on Thu Dec 09, 2010 6:27 pm

Heavyweight (literally after putting all the weight he'd lost recently back on) Ch Nein political reporter Laurie Oakes won Australia's most prestigious journalism award, the Gold Walkley, last night. In his rambling speech he fiercely backed Assange's Wikileaks actions.

by embee on Thu Dec 09, 2010 7:00 pm

He won his Wankley for his reporting of leaked information during the election campaign ...be a bit hypocritical (even for Ch Nein journos) to condemn a leak reporter

by skully on Thu Dec 09, 2010 7:28 pm

Yes I know, but it just struck me as hella bandwagony in front of a very receptive audience.

by JGK on Thu Dec 09, 2010 8:19 pm

I liked oakes' description of Gillard and Abbott as political pygmies.

How the Press Gallery must yearn for the days of Keating.

by taipan on Fri Dec 10, 2010 10:03 am

Basically his winkie leaked

by Allan D on Fri Dec 10, 2010 12:13 pm

JGK wrote:I liked oakes' description of Gillard and Abbott as political pygmies.

How the Press Gallery must yearn for the days of Keating.

Rather like the line in the 1954 Bob Hope film Casanova's Big Night:

"I'll have you know my brother is twice as clever as me"

"You mean he's a halfwit."