Nice try, Julian. The creepy Julian Assange, mastermind of the WikiLeaks site, would love to pretend he is a victim of an American “witch hunt.” Indeed that was the very term he used in his address today from the Ecuador Embassy in London where he has holed up. He also referred to Pfc. Bradley Manning, the soldier who was said to have leaked confidential State Department cables to WikiLeaks, as a “political prisoner” and compared himself to Pussy Riot, the Russian band sentenced to prison for mocking Vladimir Putin.
Problem is, Assange isn’t being stalked by legions of CIA assassins a la Jason Bourne. Nor even by CIA Predators a la Al Qaeda. He is facing extradition to Sweden to face charges that he committed sex crimes against two women. His legal appeals exhausted in the UK, Assange forfeited the substantial bail ($376,000) raised by radical chic supporters such as Michael Moore and hightailed it to the Ecuador Embassy—so desperate is Assange to avoid a trial in a defendant-friendly jurisdiction such as Sweden. The only wonder is that he has any friends left at this point.
But there will always be corners of “progressive” opinion that will cheer anyone who is ant-American no matter what else he is. I can’t help thinking, however, that if the same accusations had been made against a conservative, rather than a leftist, icon, Assange would get labeled as “anti-woman.”
Toddle over to alternet.org, he's bigger than Jesus (who clearly borrowed all his ideas from Marx and Stalin and didn't exist anyway, according to them). No you've got to see it to appreciate it. They seem to think that Sweden, with its long record of being a puppet state of the Zionist Occupied US Government and its long record of human rights atrocities, can't wait to fly Assange to the US SO THAT HE CAN be tortured to death in Gitmo, or by the Protestant churches or the Jews or something.
Yes, since Bradley Manning is being treated so well – Assange has nothing to fear. Our government is all knowing and all wise. How dear the anti-American act in the tradition of Thomas Jefferson n Why can't he be more like that great Patriot Sheldon Adelson?
Bradley Manning (1) violated his solemn oath of enlistment, (2) betrayed his fellow soldiers and (3) revealed himself as an utter disgrace to the uniform that so many have worn with such pride. Only in Leftie La-La Land could someone like him be regarded as a hero. No doubt his name and face will receive prominent display at the next Occupy protest. And you know what? That works for me. Bradley Manning is the perfect poster boy for that disorderly mob of wannabe Bolsheviks.
I don't understand why this guy hasn't been taken out by a Predator Drone – this guy is a war criminal and an enemy of the state and should be treated as such.