Interpol issues wanted notice for Julian Assange...

[Phigure]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/no ... an-assange

Fucking stupid. The rape charges are obviously bullshit; one of them women accusing him has ties to the CIA...

[HRKRT]

Obvious smear campaign. Absolutely ridiculous.

[helix]

Dude is a baller, fuck haters. Let that ****** run free.

[deadly_habit]

he's going to end up in jail or dead from "mysterious" or "accidental" circumstances
it's just a matter of time

[helix]

he's going to end up in jail or dead from "mysterious" or "accidental" circumstances
it's just a matter of time

Sad truth.

[hasezwei]

five bucks on tragical suicide. at least if he upsets the russians.

[Phigure]

the one thing he's got going for him is the "wikileaks insurance" file

it's a 1.9 GB (iirc) AES256 encrypted file that is publicly available to which the key will be presumably be released if anything were ever to happen to him. it's speculated that some heavy shit is in that file.

tbh he's already so infamous that a "suicide" or an "accident" will be a blatantly obvious hit on him by the government. what they're doing now is the only way they can really get him; to attack him with false charges, issue arrest warrents, and let it escalate until the man is cornered. eventually, they'll arrest him, lock him up and silence him that way.

[hasezwei]

i'd think it would be really hilarious if someone who the usa simply can't fuck with would give him shelter. but that's just my dream world.

[Phigure]

i'd think it would be really hilarious if someone who the usa simply can't fuck with would give him shelter. but that's just my dream world.

Iceland or Switzerland. I know they both have extradition treaties with the US but TBH they really don't give a fuck and iceland especially is a haven for free speech. assange has stated that those two countries are the only ones in which he would even feel relatively safe

[AllNightDayDream]

Dude is on the run for sure, though. He better be on some jason bourne shit.

[nousd]

Iceland or Switzerland....assange has stated that those two countries are the only ones in which he would even feel relatively safe

He'd be quite safe at home imo. David Hicks & war criminals seem to survive OK here. Better than the Venezuela offer.

[feral witchchild]

More than anything else, I hope he is captured by European intelligence agencies...

...if the CIA or American authorities get to him first, he'll likely end up cooped up/tortured/worse somewhere without anything close to a trial.

[deadly_habit]

More than anything else, I hope he is captured by European intelligence agencies...

...if the CIA or American authorities get to him first, he'll likely end up cooped up/tortured/worse somewhere without anything close to a trial.

you act like european agencies don't do the same thing

[feral witchchild]

you act like european agencies don't do the same thing

He'd get a trial. The odds might be stacked against him, and they might throw more absurd allegations at him, but he wouldn't just disappear.

I mean, granted, he's way too well known now for America to really show him how we do...so perhaps my point is moot, but I think it would still work out better for him if he isn't captured by the US.

[deadly_habit]

even if he is in the hands of the europeans i'm pretty sure extradition would be a reality after time served if he is convicted, or even if found not guilty on these charges

[feral witchchild]

Not at all surprising, but good god. lol

[MikeE]

he's going to end up in jail or dead from "mysterious" or "accidental" circumstances
it's just a matter of time

Sad truth.

As opposed to all those who end up dead due to the leaks.

if the CIA had any balls they would have trotksy'd his ass weeks ago

[deadly_habit]

oh well dling all the files and tossing on a memstick including the insurance policy one

[pikeymobile]

The thing is, he's not the main guy at Wikileaks. I remember he referred to himself as a 'Lightning Rod' for the company, the one who's always in the public eye and taking all the shit from the media and the government. He does a pretty spectacular job at it too.
It's a shame that people are considering him a terrorist, yet when Dick Cheney leaks the name of an undercover CIA operative he doesn't even get disciplined.

[Pada]

Not at all surprising, but good god. lol

'Assange is not a "journalist," any more than the "editor" of al Qaeda's new English-language magazine Inspire is a "journalist."

lol