Wikileaks

[Nick]

So, they have released 250,000 documents which embarrass the USA, and also show up the US perception of UK failings. What hysteria!! "People will die." "This is all confidential!" "Saudis [The bastards] say BOMB IRAN [why don't they do it if they are that worried?]" Actually I think it's a good thing. Finally we sheeples find out what is, to some extent, really going on. Let democracy and transparency rool. OK? I can deal with it, why can't those frightfully important cvnts in power (see H. CLinton) do the same?

Ooh look!

http://order-order.com/2010/11/29/hound-dog-minister/

[Snoopy]

Not at all surprising. It is obvious that various "World" leaders talk about one another and about us ... Just as we talk about them, in disparaging tones.

I suspect that either:
 (i) The US have allowed these "leaks" to get out for devious reasons of their own.
OR
 (ii) They are waiting to find who is leaking them to Wikileaks and how.

I would hazard a guess that sooner rather than later the founder of Wikileaks is going to meet with an unfortunate accident.

[Nick]

He will. He is a brave or foolish man. Meantime, we can see what our elected representatives (who we pay for) and their servants (who we pay for) are talking about. Or are we too infantile to know?

[Nick]

It begins

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11937110

[Just One More]

Well done Ecuador for telling the UK and the USA to fuck right off, they've granted Julian Assange asylum despite a very heavy threat from the UK government to go in and get him

"If the measures announced in the British official communication materialise they will be interpreted by Ecuador as a hostile and intolerable act and also as an attack on our sovereignty, which would require us to respond with greater diplomatic force...Such actions would be a blatant disregard of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and of the rules of international law of the past four centuries...It would be a dangerous precedent because it would open the door to the violation of embassies as a declared sovereign space... We are a free state not subject to external pressures"

"History shows he couldn't be guaranteed a fair trial in the U.S.A"

 

[Barman]

Well done Ecuador for telling the UK and the USA to fuck right off, they've granted Julian Assange asylum despite a very heavy threat from the UK government to go in and get him

"If the measures announced in the British official communication materialise they will be interpreted by Ecuador as a hostile and intolerable act and also as an attack on our sovereignty, which would require us to respond with greater diplomatic force...Such actions would be a blatant disregard of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and of the rules of international law of the past four centuries...It would be a dangerous precedent because it would open the door to the violation of embassies as a declared sovereign space... We are a free state not subject to external pressures"

"History shows he couldn't be guaranteed a fair trial in the U.S.A"

 

Well done to them! 

[Marley's Ghost (Imbiber of Spirits)]

What's also interesting is whatwas said on R2 earlier today. Some guy (who sounded knowledgeable) stated that the charges on which the Swedes have requested extradition were originally investigated some years ago and he was told there would be no charges.

OK, so why were they re-instated after the wikileaks furore?

[Snoopy]

What's also interesting is whatwas said on R2 earlier today. Some guy (who sounded knowledgeable) stated that the charges on which the Swedes have requested extradition were originally investigated some years ago and he was told there would be no charges.

OK, so why were they re-instated after the wikileaks furore?

I suspect that certain US agencies paid the wimmin to come forward with their demands for "justice". The Yanks want him very badly ..... if he ends up in the States expect at least 150 years in the slammer to be the sentence. It will either be that or a few photos of him strapped to a stretcher on his final journey.