The Decline And Fall Of The Wikileaks Empire

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Julian Assange “turns on everyone”.

He accused his media partners at The Guardian newspaper, which worked with him to make the embarrassing leaks public, of unfairly tarnishing him by revealing damaging details of the sex assault allegations he faces in Sweden. […] Speaking from the English mansion where he is confined on bail, the 39-year-old Australian said that the decision to publish incriminating police files about him was “disgusting”.

As usual, the Huffington Post is out ahead of the pack – “This all has Karl [Rove’s] signature…”
Yes it does, my pretties.

37 Replies to “The Decline And Fall Of The Wikileaks Empire”

  1. File this one at the top of the “What goes around, comes around” file.
    Julian actually thinks the media is on his side and will do his bidding.
    Life is a series of lessons
    Lessons will be repeated until learned.
    Never become the story, Julian, never.
    Tee hee.

  2. I am just amazed at how indignant people are when the treatment afforded others is now afforded them… lol.

  3. This is going to play out like the G8/G20 security issue.
    It will tend to split the right and to some extent the sensible left.
    Almost the same people will form factions on this issue, although I have noted one or two variations.
    Some conservatives look at Assange as totally beyond the pale, a guy for whom no fate is too unkind. It’s hard to overlook the sheer treasonous stupidity involved in meddling in state secrets.
    Sure, you could have a reasonable discussion about what should be state secrets. Maybe diplomacy is organized b.s. designed to fool people into false conclusions.
    But this is hardly the way to go about changing things. All you can really hope to accomplish with wiki-leaks is disorganized, unpredictable chaos involving a lot of crazy people with a lot of weapons. This is not a noble task.
    On the other hand, it probably is true to conclude that governments can and will use the example of Julian Assange’s maniacal ego-trip to clamp down on other internet expression that they don’t favour. Like my diatribes against Section 13, global warming, multi-culturalism. And if someone were to say, well Harper won’t do that, I would reply, “maybe not, but Layton-Iggy-Rae coalition would.”
    So there are no winners in this debate, just people losing in two different ways. Sometimes that’s what happens when a jerk goes ballistic.
    But who would want any of that action? That’s the secret that even wiki-leaks can’t answer.

  5. “the 39-year-old Australian said that the decision to publish incriminating police files about him was “disgusting”.
    He couldn’t possibly be missing the supreme irony of a statement like that, could he?

  6. Lets assume the simpler answer. Assange is glory seeking creep who happens to have a political agenda.
    Scratch any one of a number of politicians anywhere and you will find the same pathologies. Did he do anything illegal in publishing the stolen material….hmmm not really.
    Am I enjoying the left wing suffer under their own “laws” and tactics. Absolutley.

  7. I have noticed the decline in your following.
    “One small step for man; one giant leap for mankind”

  8. Julian Assange is in the pay of the US government.
    Has anyone noticed the Dems passing bills censoring the Internet? All over Drudge today, plus we know Barry has an “internet kill switch” as one of his new Presidential Powers this year.
    Julian Assange is going to provide them with the excuse they need to kill the web, or has already done so. Whether they can actually -do- that is another question of course, but Julian baby is going to be the one who gives them the opening to try.
    Thus prophesy the Phantom.
    Assange is also one freaky piece of work, I wouldn’t want to sit next to him on a plane.

  9. Look all, whatever you think about Assange’s actions in releasing classified documents or about Assange’s personality doesn’t change the fact that he is being both defamed and framed by these women. As a man, I find this very, very offensive. Shoot the son of a b if you don’t like him ….. that’s an up front action ….. but let’s all agree that these sex charges are phoney.

  11. In Peter O’Donnell’s otherwise coherent remarks I noticed a reference to something he calls the “sensible left”. That means, what, the relatively sensible left, the non-rioting left?

  12. Phantom, I fear you may be correct in your assessment and wikileaks may be the Reichstag fire equivalent that US statists were looking for. Amazing how there has been so little publicity about the big zero not getting rid of any of the dastardly totalitarian laws that GWB passed.
    Likely Julian Assange is just a publicity seeking twerp not bright enough to realize that if you jab a slumbering giant donkey with a rapier that it might get pissed off at you. What I found especially humorous was Assange’s outrage that someone would dare leak documents which were unflattering to him — you’re a public figure now Julian and it’s time to get used to living under a microscope.
    While I think Assange is an idiot, I will side with those who support his right to publish anything he wants on the internet. We may be in for quite a fight now to keep the internet free of government control and it’s probably time for me to send another donation to EFF to support them in this fight.

  14. The NYT buried it in the last paragraph , but at least they did.
    [ “Those who say that the judges in our court of appeal were influenced by pressure from the United States don’t know what they’re talking about,” he said. “It’s absurd.”
    Mr. Borgstrom added that by presenting the allegations against him as part of a political conspiracy, Mr. Assange had made “victims” of the two women, who now faced vilification on the Internet and regular death threats. “There are three persons who know for a fact that this has nothing to do with WikiLeaks, the C.I.A. or the Obama administration, and they are Julian Assange and my two clients,” he said. ]

  15. From the article:
    “Mr Assange claimed the newspaper received leaked documents from Swedish authorities or ‘other intelligence agencies” intent on jeopardising his defence. The leak was clearly designed to undermine my bail application,” he said. ‘Someone in authority clearly intended to keep Julian in prison.'”
    PHAHAHAHAHAHAAA! Oh, the IRONY! Eat it, leak boy!

  17. loki, my crystal ball says Julian is The Guy. But lets face it, you don’t have to be a fortune teller.
    The American Left has had it pretty much all their way since Roosevelt. Their policies have been a disaster, but that didn’t matter because they owned the media. Nobody knew the true state of things.
    That changed with Matt Drudge and Monica Lewinski’s blue dress.
    The web was making inroads of course, but it was considered a toy in Grand Poobah circles, because the poobahs never noticed guys like me posting my analysis of gun control research. Me and about a million other guys got Algore beat in 2000 despite everything the media could do, because we made gun control into the third rail of US politics under the radar. Now nobody says “gun control” in US politics now. But nobody noticed a million guys with goofy little web sites did that. They still think the NRA did it somehow. Maybe by magic.
    But Matt Drudge got Bill Clinton impeached single handed. That got noticed.
    Lately the global warming scam came unglued. A whole lot of Lefties have put 20 years of their lives and countless dollars into that, and it has been essentially ruined by -one- unauthorized release of emails. They could afford to kiss off Bill Clinton, he’s just one guy. But I think Climategate really hurt them where it counts, in the wallet.
    Then there’s the constant, slow erosion of MSM market share, their audience and credibility being ground away steadily by people like Kate McMillan who do it better than they do. SDA is a better, funner source of news than CBC/CTV/Global/City/Red Star/BlobandSnail all rolled into one. Half the fun is watching these MSM outlets lie and then get busted, the other half is watching them miss the story entirely. Like Victor Davis Hanson’s article about how large parts of California are basically Mexican now. That was awesome.
    The Left need the MSM functioning, without them sending inconvenient truths down the memory hole the Lefties are lunch meat.
    The web is killing them. Now, finally they woke up, smelled their tail burning, and they are going to have a go at killing it back. I guess we are going to see if they can really do that.
    CPC, take note. You wanna stay in power and get a majority, you better protect the internet. Count Iggula is going to be the next PM if you don’t.

  18. And so The Guardian decided to hang Assange out to dry.
    [ For it {the left} believes certain things as articles of faith which cannot be denied. One is that America is a force for bad in the world and so can never be anything other than guilty. Another is that all men are potential rapists, and so can never be anything other than guilty.] dailymail

  19. The Huffington Post seems to be something akin to science fiction, some sort of political fiction masquerading as pretend news commentary. The writers really, really wish that what they write is something that could’ve, would’ve, should’ve happened. Has it? Hasn’t it? It surely did. Didn’t it?
    Nobody knows, only the Big Brother at Huffington post, what comes out of there is the way it is and that is that. End of story.

  21. There is an article in the Daily Mail that goes into the legal intricacies of dressed penis and in what manner it was undressed.
    Once it was said by the 2 ladies that the undressing of penis was a deliberate action of the penis owner, it has become a police matter. In Sweden anyway.

  23. Huff Post figures that Karl Rove is to blame for Julian’s legal woes. I feel better now as I had a suspicion that Grant Devine had pulled another one.

  24. Now that I’ve read through the accusations against Julian, I really wonder what is considered consensual sex is Sweden. Does this mean if a guy takes a woman out to dinner and her steak is overdone at the restaurant then this can be used as the future basis for a rape charge? (Assuming they have sex later that evening). The most hilarious comment was that of the woman who said “I’ve never had sex without a condom before”.
    The only thing these events can be used to convict Julian of is ungentlemanly conduct. It may have some adverse consequences on his future ability to get laid except in countries that haven’t yet been exposed to the internet.
    Only if Julian turns out to be HIV+ will these “rape” charges have any chance of success. Where I currently practice the concept of condom use hasn’t made much of an inroad among the sexually active population and getting chlamydia at least once seems to be a teenage right of passage.
    Phantom, quite right about the role of the internet in spreading the news. More and more people are turning away from the MSM and statists dislike not being able to control what information people get. The internet is a means of rapidly spreading information and has become so important in peoples lives that it is going to be near impossible to control it. The internet is politically neutral and allows for in-depth analysis of events. The Canadian firearms digest (still based in SK) got together hundreds of gun owners who would otherwise never had met. Climategate was a purely internet driven expose and probably got millions of people to finally tune out the MSM permanently. WUWT rose to one of the most accessed blogs on the internet as a result of climategate. Now SDA and WUWT are my primary sources of news and I haven’t listened to TV news in years.
    Unfortunately the statists got their foot in the door with anti-child pron legislation which has nothing to do with child exploitation and everything to do with letting the police legally snoop on your computer. Look for a similar non-problem to be suddenly crucial to deal with and the end result being a clampdown on online freedom of speech.

  29. “Left never has any insight into itself and how ridiculous it seems.
    So John Pilger has even complained about the impropriety of leaking secret prosecution documents into the public domain — as part of his defence of a man who has leaked thousands of secret official documents.
    Such a pitiless spotlight couldn’t be shone upon a more priceless bunch of idiots.
    You’d have to have a heart of stone not to laugh. Happy Christmas.”
    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1340101/MELANIE-PHILLIPS-Fancy-The-Left-war-Mr-WikiLeaks.html#ixzz18kqcr7J2

  30. Phantom:
    well said sir
    And I have to point out that Congress now has the power to defund the FCC over this blatant control attempt. The bill dies in January.
    Bloggers rejoice.
    Merry Christmas,
    dwright

  31. Julian Assange: Hoist on his own pen … er, petard, so to speak.
    What a wimp: Do as I say, not as I do. I’m special. How come everyone’s picking on me? I don’t deserve this. Why me? It’s not fair. I didn’t do anything wrong.
    Ad nauseum.
    Stick a sock in it, Assange.

  32. @12:13 – “Unfortunately the statists got their foot in the door with anti-child pron legislation which has nothing to do with child exploitation and everything to do with letting the police legally snoop on your computer.”
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1335618/Innocent-grandfather-gassed-hours-child-porn-police-raided-home.html
    “I don’t understand how accidently looking at one single picture for a matter of seconds in March 2009 has filtered down into an investigation in July 2010.”

  33. Karl Rove’s powers are amazing.
    He hasn’t been in the government since 2007, and the Democrats hate him, so I’d be shocked if he had any unofficial role since January 2009… but still, anything someone doesn’t like is his fault.

  35. Kevin said on December 21, 2010 8:33 AM
    As there is no way for the average person to truly verify the facts about anything these days I distrust everything. Nobody tells the truth anymore. Least of all governments.
    Kevin, good observation but not new. This is age-old stuff. It is quite healthy to not believe everything you are told. People have been lying for years – honestly 🙂

  37. Kate, really, you should market this stuff, as Kathy suggested back in 2004. The VRWC screed, the “Might be a Liberal” bit, Dead Gopher T-shirts…

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