{"id":3033,"date":"2010-12-05T12:30:04","date_gmt":"2010-12-05T17:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=3033"},"modified":"2021-05-05T05:12:19","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T09:12:19","slug":"julian-assange-wikileaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=3033","title":{"rendered":"Julian Assange & Wikileaks"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the last few weeks, there has been a lot of discussion about Julian Assange and Wikileaks.\u00a0 Thanks to the files stolen by Private First Class Bradley E. Manning ((Bradley Manning Bio<\/a>)) and sent to Wikileaks a great deal of embarrassing information has been released regarding the actions of the United States State Department.<\/p>\n

What they haven’t bothered to talk about is the previous document dumps by Wikileaks. These were military and intelligence documents and listed the names of people who have helped us in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

These people and their families have been put in jeopardy because of these two arrogant scum. Unconfirmed sources have said that people have been killed by the Taliban because they were named in these files. ((Sources were in a position to know first hand but couldn’t officially confirm\/deny the reports)) Additionally, videos were released purporting to show war crimes by U.S. forces. It later came out the footage had been doctored. ((Edited to put U.S. forces in a bad light. Full footage was released showing what really happened)) Of course, by that time it didn’t matter.<\/p>\n

Julian Assange has repeatedly threatened to release even more documents if he should be arrested or harmed in any way. There is an Interpol warrant out for his arrest on an alleged charge of rape in Sweden. Julian Assange was last reported to be in England in hiding denying that he had raped anyone. ((News regarding Julian Assange\u2019s rape charges<\/a>))<\/p>\n

I have no idea if these charges are true or not and frankly don\u2019t care. If he did sexually assault a woman, then he should be punished for it. However, I don\u2019t think he will live to stand trial. He has managed to attract the attention of the Russian FSB ((Federal Security Service<\/a>)), the successors to the Soviet KGB and they do not play nice. The reason the FSB is looking for Assange apparently has to do with another document dump he\u2019s threatening to make. The details are a touch on the sketchy side, but Assange said that \u201cthat new leaks would expose more secrets not only about the U.S. military but about other “repressive regimes,” such as Russia and China. ((Time Magazine))\u201d<\/p>\n

Since this threat and the release of the State Department files, Wikileaks has come under sustained DDOS ((Dedicated Denial of Service)) attacks and has been tossed from several hosting sites including Amazon.com ((Amazon\u2019s reasons for canceling Wikileaks account<\/a>)). Also, PayPal has locked out Wikileaks from using their services for donations stating that Wikileaks had violated their terms of service.<\/p>\n

Julian Assange and his backers apparently believe that the information they have is far too important for anyone to risk getting out. They are basically blackmailing the world to insure their continued safety.<\/p>\n

I hate to tell them, it isn\u2019t going to work. Assange and Wikileaks have committed espionage against the United States and apparently the Russian Federation as well as a number of smaller countries. Unlike the United States, (At least with the current administration), these countries play hardball. They do not recognize civil rights for their own citizens, and they flat out won\u2019t hesitate to grab Assange and torture him for any information he has, including who has the encryption keys on his \u201cInsurance files.\u201d Julian Assange refuses to believe this, but I suspect that one reason he is in hiding is to avoid a \u201cmysterious Ricin ((Ricin<\/a>)) overdose or getting his skull ventilated with a pair of bullets.<\/p>\n

A number of people I converse with are both present or former service military, and not just U.S. military. They are all saying that Assange and Wikileaks have committed espionage and aided our enemies in time of war. Since Assange is not a U.S. citizen and he is not presently in the United States, he should be declared an enemy ((Similar to Al Qeda and the Taliban)) and killed on sight. The same goes for all none US citizens or legal aliens not present inside the borders of the United States.<\/p>\n

A number of people and organizations think that Wikileaks and Assange are performing a service by releasing all these secret files. People and groups like the:<\/p>\n