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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNo matter what you think of Wikileaks
Julian Assange is an asshole.
He is not Wikileaks. He is not the whistle-blower that he pretends to be.
That does not mean that Whistle-blowing is a 'bad thing".
Julian Assange is an asshole. Which means he is NOT representative of Whistle blowers.
Julian Assange is an asshole. So the opposition will use him to paint the rest of Whistleblowers as Assange wannabes.
Personally, I think that Assange likes the attention and has manufactured a BFD where there wasn't one just to delay his extradition.
DJ13
(23,671 posts)xocet
(3,871 posts)Zorra
(27,670 posts)girl gone mad
(20,634 posts)Assange has certainly shined a spotlight on the rampant idiocy within and tangent to government bodies.
Skittles
(153,150 posts)you seriously sound like someone who listens to dittomasters
dogknob
(2,431 posts)If we don't watch out, this OP will suck our energy and bend our perception of time. My time posting this is a minute and a half I will never see again.
Zorra
(27,670 posts)RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)Aren't you tough? Feel better?
liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)They think he can do no wrong.
ProgressiveProfessor
(22,144 posts)He is both but it does not mean that others will equate the two