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He’s Australian
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He’s Australian
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He’s Australian
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He’s Australian
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He’s Australian
EVERYBODY HATES JULIAN
WikiLeaks founder and destroyer-in-chief of American military credibility, Julian Assange, is not a very well-liked chap.
Last week he leaked literally tens of thousands of US Military Afghan War Logs to the press after posting them on WikiLeaks.org.
The logs detail the nitty gritty details of the nine-year US occupation of Afghanistan. Assange himself claims the logs detail war crimes committed by US forces, whereas critics have accused Assange of endangering the lives of individuals named and described in the logs.
Daily Beast journo, Tunku Varadarajan in particular, goes straight for the kill in his piece on Assange.
With his bloodless, sallow face, his lank hair drained of all color, his languorous, very un-Australian limbs, and his aura of blinding pallor that appears to admit no nuance, Assange looks every inch the amoral, uber-nerd villain, icily detached from the real world of moral choices in which the rest of us saps live. Call him the Unaleaker, with apologies to the victims of Ted Kaczynski.
Well sure, the guy hasn’t endeared himself. And ol’ Tunku isn’t alone in his intense loathing of Assange. Calling the American military, and by extension, the American nation “bastards” probably wasn’t a hot PR move.
But watching Assange wallow in the attention that has followed his voluminous data dump, one is struck by his strut, his hubris, his palpable vainglory. “I enjoy crushing bastards,” he crowed to Der Spiegel, one of the publications favored with the right to publish his dubiously acquired material. “The most dangerous men are those who are in charge of war,” he harrumphed. “And they need to be stopped.”
But ascribing “palpable vainglory” to a man who shares a physical similarity with a peeled onion basking in afternoon sunlight seems a little far fetched.
Here are five much, much better reasons to dislike Julian Assange.
[Source : DailyBeast]
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12 Comments
PJ
30 Jul 2010
Those are definately 5 good reasons to dislike him.
I knew there was something fishy about the guy.
Keegan
30 Jul 2010
I don’t understand the hate to him. He has released documents which should of been released anyways. If the press did there jobs they would be the ones releasing these stories.
Bra Joe
31 Jul 2010
Think what you will about Julian. Technology has changed how war is conducted. Now people are using technology to oppose the greatest imperial force the world has seen. With success!!! Awesome stuff
MaCaNiX
31 Jul 2010
FFS guys…
“American” and “Military Credibility” should be included in all school syllabuses as the top example of an oxymoron!!!
Mr Sharp
01 Aug 2010
Pretty fucked that they’re so excited to leak info that they did not properly filter crucial information like this. Very unhappy for the deaths that can result.
Luca
02 Aug 2010
Silverstreak ~ So this guy does something really great, and you somehow, very weakly, point the cross-hairs on him with your “five much, much better reasons to dislike Julian Assange” ~ is that really the best you can come up with? Fuck sakes man, I know you want to tap into the SEO’s he’ll generate, but really – more effort next time, please.
silverstreak
02 Aug 2010
For our mutual edification, Luca puts in much more effort than everyone else and “bars no holds” over at his blog, lucavincenzo.blogspot.com. Please enjoy.
Jason Vibes
03 Aug 2010
@Keegan, Bra Joe and Luca. I have a feeling you all follow conspiracy theories? 9/11 was Hoax? Haiti Earthquakes was caused by a US tiptonic weapon? “The Obama Deception”, Bush was a puppet, “NWO” etc etc. It is very easy to hate the Americans. I hope one day your country falls into a dictators hand, or is overthrown by the Taliban or ‘Somali’ rebels, then you will wish the Americans are there to help you. Do you leak your companies documents? Do you tell your employer you vandalised public proprety when you were young, high and drunk?. No these are things that we know are wrong, and would affect our integrity and reputation, however true and regrettable it might be. There are things that do not need publishing. Yes the US make some dumbass decisions, but that is the price of War. Anti-Americanism is a trend, and you are a follower. Julian is a prick. Like youz.
Carolin Cartledge
08 Aug 2010
haha 3:57-4:17
Easy Scholarships
23 Aug 2010
Granted being Australian is a good reason not to like a person, but it is time Governments were a little more honest about their dealings.
It is one thing to keep secrets, it is another thing altogether to lie to the general population about what is really going on – how stupid do they think we are anyway?
silverstreak
(@) 23 Aug 2010
Hear hear, Easy Scholarships.
paul
04 Sep 2010
Luca your response smacks of temper tantrum. I can think of a sixth reason to dislike him…. he’s Austrailian. Disliking the Ausies is as South African as Johnny Clegg and granadilla lollies.Get with the program cuzzie.
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