Nonstopdrivel
13 years ago

Despite what has happened, the woman who organized the event and had Assange stay at her apartment told Aftonbladet that she never intended that Assange be charged with rape.



This is the sentence to which I am referring. I'm not sure how to interpret it.
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Rockmolder
13 years ago
Hackers Defend WikiLeaks by Attacking PayPal and PostFinance [UPDATE: Mastercard, Too] 

A group of hackers connected to the online imageboard 4chan, often referred to as Anonymous, have retaliated against several sites that denied service to WikiLeaks shortly after the site started releasing secret embassy cables.

The site of Swiss bank PostFinance, which has closed the account of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, has been taken down and is still unavailable at the time of this writing. Hackers have also attacked PayPal but have only managed to take down the sites blog, while the service remained operational.

A spokesman for the group behind the attacks on PayPal and PostFinance said they will target any website thats bowing down to government pressure. The same group is allegedly behind the series of attacks collectively called Operation: Payback, which targeted anti-piracy organizations such as RIAA and MPAA.

Among other companies that have denied service to WikiLeaks are DNS service provider EveryDNS.net and Amazon. Most of these sites claim they havent shut down WikiLeaks account due to political pressure, instead naming technical or procedural reasons for denying the service to the WikiLeaks.

Update: Mastercard, which has also denied service to WikiLeaks, has had its site taken down by hackers, too.

Wade
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13 years ago
Bad strategy, alas.

Attacking the corps just screws with the everyday person. And that plays right into the statist's hands.

Attacking "collaborators" is a tried and true strategy -- but not when pretty much everyone is a collaborator.
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Nonstopdrivel
13 years ago

Assangination: From Character Assassination to the Real Thing
 

Posted on Dec 14, 2010

By Amy Goodman

Despite being granted bail, WikiLeaks founder and editor Julian Assange remains imprisoned in London, awaiting extradition proceedings to answer a prosecutors questions in Sweden. He hasnt been formally charged with any crime. His lawyers have heard that a grand jury in the United States has been secretly empaneled, and that a U.S. federal indictment is most likely forthcoming.

Politicians and commentators, meanwhile, have been repeatedly calling for Assange to be killed.

Take Democratic strategist and commentator Bob Beckel, who said on a Fox Business show: Weve got special ops forces. A dead man cant leak stuff. ... This guys a traitor, hes treasonous, and he has broken every law of the United States. And Im not for the death penalty, so ... theres only one way to do it: illegally shoot the son of a bitch. U.S. Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., called WikiLeaks a foreign terrorist organization and said that the website posed a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States. He went on: This is worse even than a physical attack on Americans; its worse than a military attack.

One of Assanges lawyers in London, Jennifer Robinson, told me, in response to the flood of threats: Obviously we take these sorts of very public pronouncements incredibly seriously. And people making these statements ought to be reported to the police for incitement to violence.

One of Beckels co-panelists on Fox said what needed to be done was to cut the head off the snake, a phrase which, ironically, gained more significance when it appeared days later in one of the leaked cables. In the cable, Saudi Ambassador to the U.S. Adel al-Jubeir recalled the Kings frequent exhortations to the U.S. to attack Iran and so put an end to its nuclear weapons program. He told you to cut off the head of the snake.

Assange has found support in some surprising quarters. Conservative Harvard Law professor Jack Goldsmith blogged: I find myself agreeing with those who think Assange is being unduly vilified ... it is not obvious what law he has violated. ... I do not understand why so much ire is directed at Assange and so little at The New York Times. (WikiLeaks has partnered with several news organizations, including The New York Times, in its document releases.)

Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, the former chief of staff of Secretary of State Colin Powell, joined a group of former government officials in a letter of support for Assange, writing, WikiLeaks has teased the genie of transparency out of a very opaque bottle, and powerful forces in America, who thrive on secrecy, are trying desperately to stuff the genie back in.

Likewise from a feminist group in Britain. Since the principal, public reason for Assanges arrest relates to questions about potential sexual crimes in Sweden, Katrin Axelsson, from the group Women Against Rape, wrote in a letter to the British newspaper The Guardian: Many women in both Sweden and Britain will wonder at the unusual zeal with which Julian Assange is being pursued for rape allegations. .... Women dont take kindly to our demand for safety being misused, while rape continues to be neglected at best or protected at worst.

Assange, in an Op-Ed piece published in The Australian newspaper shortly after his arrest, wrote there is a chorus in the U.S. State Department of Youll risk lives! National Security! Youll endanger troops! by releasing information, and then they say there is nothing of importance in what WikiLeaks publishes. It cant be both.

In a statement released to Australian television, Assange said: My convictions are unfaltering. I remain true to the ideals I have expressed. ... If anything, this process has increased my determination that they are true and correct.

Extradition proceedings are complex, lengthy affairs. WikiLeaks, for that matter, is not just Julian Assange, but a geographically distributed network of people and servers, and it has promised that the work of facilitating the release of documents from governments and corporations will continue. The U.S. Justice Department, if it pursues a case, will have to answer the question: If WikiLeaks is a criminal organization, what of its media partners, like The New York Times?


Amy Goodman is the host of Democracy Now!, a daily international TV/radio news hour airing on more than 800 stations in North America. She is the author of Breaking the Sound Barrier, recently released in paperback and now a New York Times best-seller.

2010 Amy Goodman

Distributed by King Features Syndicate



He's a traitor? He's treasonous? How can he be traitor when he isn't even an American citizen?
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