05 Aug 2019, 4:46 pm
The_Walrus wrote:
Fnord wrote:
outerspacenik wrote:
I've just had a quick look at earlier posts about Julian and i love how opinions of him are so divided. Bottom line is whether what he has done is right or wrong. A characteristic of Aspergers is black and white thinking. Hmm. I am interested in Julian's Aspergian characteristics one of which is a strong sense of social justice. Tick! Is it fair that he is being punished simply for being Aspergian? I know this is a very simplistic take on the situation. But i feel sorry for the bloke. He is just being Aspergian in my eyes.
He is not being punished for being aspergian. He is guilty of breaching the UK Bail Act 1976. He is accused of rape in Sweden. He also aided and abetted the activities of that traitor Manning in America.Whether or not he is "Aspergian" is irrelevant. Asperger's Syndrome is neither a prosecutable offense nor a "Get Out Of Jail Free" card. Julian Assange is a criminal who outlasted his welcome at the Ecuadorian embassy, where he was hiding from prosecutions for crimes he knows he committed -- a cowardly act in itself.
Julian Assange is a most worthless piece of work if I have ever seen one.
Well said.
When he hid I still had some naive support for Wikileaks. Now I don't really. Their failure to responsibly redact the documents that Chelsea Manning sent them endangered lives and led to her imprisonment. Meanwhile Assange hid from the rape charges that would probably have led to him spending several years in prison, and actively spread misinformation in an attempt to influence the US Presidential Election.
The world is probably a better place as a result of Manning's leaks but I really wish she'd sent them to the Guardian or the New York Times or any journalist really, not that criminal Assange.
The Guardian are now one of the main culprits of publishing fake stories about Russia and Assange. New York Times? Are you actually joking?
05 Aug 2019, 4:47 pm
Fnord wrote:
tern wrote:
How would she know that those papers would run it ?
That's exactly what papers DO! Manning new exactly what the papers would do with the stolen information. How could anyone be so naive as to think otherwise?
DUH!OH the irony!! !!
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outerspacenik
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05 Aug 2019, 6:32 pm
I am so sorry that my initial post about Julian Assange started World War III. My profuse apologies to all concerned and peace be with you. Please forgive my Aspergian childlike naivity. As i said i am interested in what appear to me to be his Aspergian traits not what he has done or failed to do. It is not about moral or ethical issues or the pros and cons of his behaviour. I guess what i am saying is that i empathsise with him because i seem programmed to fight social justice battles. I too have gotten myself into hot water as a result. Twice i have done it in my own backyard, once in the workplace and the other in a retirement village where i lived. In hindsight a really stupid thing to do that put me in dangerous situations when refuge in a foreign embassy would have been most welcome.
05 Aug 2019, 6:41 pm
outerspacenik wrote:
I am so sorry that my initial post about Julian Assange started World War III. My profuse apologies to all concerned and peace be with you. Please forgive my Aspergian childlike naivity. As i said i am interested in what appear to me to be his Aspergian traits not what he has done or failed to do. It is not about moral or ethical issues or the pros and cons of his behaviour. I guess what i am saying is that i empathsise with him because i seem programmed to fight social justice battles. I too have gotten myself into hot water as a result. Twice i have done it in my own backyard, once in the workplace and the other in a retirement village where i lived. In hindsight a really stupid thing to do that put me in dangerous situations when refuge in a foreign embassy would have been most welcome.
No apologies needed. You did nothing wrong.
05 Aug 2019, 6:55 pm
outerspacenik wrote:
I am so sorry that my initial post about Julian Assange started World War III. My profuse apologies to all concerned and peace be with you. Please forgive my Aspergian childlike naivity. As i said i am interested in what appear to me to be his Aspergian traits not what he has done or failed to do. It is not about moral or ethical issues or the pros and cons of his behaviour. I guess what i am saying is that i empathsise with him because i seem programmed to fight social justice battles. I too have gotten myself into hot water as a result. Twice i have done it in my own backyard, once in the workplace and the other in a retirement village where i lived. In hindsight a really stupid thing to do that put me in dangerous situations when refuge in a foreign embassy would have been most welcome.
I would embrace your actions of self-risk in your quest for spreading truth and what's right, but that's me.
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