Julian Assange - What a tosser.

[Wildeybeast]

Does anyone else here really want to punch him in his stupid face? The guy is wanted for questioning on the rather serious matter of sexual assault and he runs off and hides in the embassy of Ecuador who for reasons best known to themselves have decided to involve themselves in a matter that has bugger all to do with them and grant him political asylum when he is facing criminal charges, not political ones. I was happy to say, fine, let him spend the rest of his life in the embassy and they can look after him for all that time, but after his balcony performance, whipping up his frenzied mass of deluded supporters in true evil dictator style, I say revoke their embassy status, storm in there, pepper spray his face and get him out of our country as soon as bloody possible.

Who is this man that he thinks he can make demands on the governments of three separate nations whilst using the guise of freedom of the press and imagined political persecution to try and save his own miserable hide from potentially spending some considerable time in prison in Sweden for committing some of the more despicable crimes a man is capable of? I don't know who I despise more, him or the deranged fanatics that hang off his every word and waste police time and tax payers money supervising their pointless protest.

For anyone with no idea what I'm ranting about, go [URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19310335"]here[/URL].

[Psychosplodge]

I thought it consensual but the lack of protection wasn't and that's sexual assault there but our nearest equivalent is rape?

But yes he looks slimy, and there's a case to answer, though our government looks like an arse for threatening to enter the embassy, he's not going to stay there forever....

[Mr Mystery]

The man is a horrible little poo-weasel.

He knowingly published sensitive and restricted documents for his own ego, and seems to feel he should be immune to prosection. Balls quite frankly.

He is refusing to go to Sweden on account he claims they will automatically extradite him to the US, where he claims he'll be tortured and then sentenced to death. Poppycock, and he knows it.

He can sod right off, the massive coward. Why should Sweden state they won't extradite him? What makes him think he's so special he can be given guarantees to prevent his justified prosecution??

[Denzark]

We managed to get into the Iranian Embasy OK back in 1980...

[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_embassy_siege"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_embassy_siege[/URL]

[Psychosplodge]

not quite the same lol

[Wildeybeast]

I thought it consensual but the lack of protection wasn't and that's sexual assault there but our nearest equivalent is rape?

But yes he looks slimy, and there's a case to answer, though our government looks like an arse for threatening to enter the embassy, he's not going to stay there forever....

My bad, I think it is just questioning for sexual assault. Still a complete dickwad.

The man is a horrible little poo-weasel.

He knowingly published sensitive and restricted documents for his own ego, and seems to feel he should be immune to prosection. Balls quite frankly.

He is refusing to go to Sweden on account he claims they will automatically extradite him to the US, where he claims he'll be tortured and then sentenced to death. Poppycock, and he knows it.

He can sod right off, the massive coward. Why should Sweden state they won't extradite him? What makes him think he's so special he can be given guarantees to prevent his justified prosecution??

My thoughts exactly. You do the crime, you do the time. He knew releasing this stuff was against the law in various countries and that the US may well come after him (which by they haven't even said they are going to do yet). Just because he thinks it shouldn't be a crime doesn't make it so.

[Mr Mystery]

And he should be aware that freedom of the press doesn't exactly extend to official secrets, or potentially embarassing documents.

And for this next comment, I'm quite aware of the irony, but....he is the worst kind of keyboard warrior. His greasy weaseling is almost as funny as Lulzec and Anonymous selling their mates out at the drop of a hat once they start getting nicked!

[Necron2.0]

I say leave him there. Keep the press away. Shut down communications in and out of the embassy. Leave him with no voice until he surrenders himself. Make it painfully obvious he is not getting out of the country and simply ignore his antics. Eventually the Ecuadorians will get sick and tired of him. Force them to hand him over with an official apology, otherwise they can feed him, clothe him and otherwise "enjoy" his company forever.

[eldargal]

He is an arse. I understand the worry about sending him back to the US to be executed over airing their dirty little secrets, but that would be easier to do here than in Sweden. It's just silly.

As to what he did, I rather agree with the logic that if a guvmint doesn't want to be embaressed it shouldn't keep dirty secrets. I don't trust governments and the more disclosure and transperancy the better even if it is forces through people like Assange and whatsisname that leaked the documents to him in the first place.

[DarkLink]

The problem with Assange is that, in addition to the dirty little secrets, he also released documents that could get people killed. The reason the military classifies so many documents is because sometimes the tiniest details can get soldiers or spies killed. In particular, Wikileaks revealed the names of many Afghans who aided US forces, making them prime targets for Taliban retaliation.

Plus, those dirty little secrets can be dangerous in and of themselves. If someone says something, say, anti-Islamic related to Iran, Iran will be pushed that much closer to wanting to nuke the USA and kill millions of people when they eventually do develop nuclear weapons (and that's a question of when, not if). That dirty little secret might be stupid, and outing the idiot who said it might be a noble goal, but not if it endangers lives.

Assange either lacks the moral judgement to care who gets hurt, or the intelligence to filter what is and isn't harmless. I vote for both.