Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, a website that as of twenty minutes ago has been shut down, has made Interpol's most wanted list in regards to a double-rape accusation. Two Swedish ladies are claiming Julian Assange raped them separately on different days, a charge Assange denies vehemently. He claims the sex had been consensual, and that false charges were made when the ladies found out about each other.
Could this have anything to do with Wikileaks publishing thousands of pages of documents from the US State Department that had been classified as secret? I wonder who unleashed a cyber attack two days ago, hours before those documents were to be posted? I wonder is the yanking of the actual website, wikileaks.org, from Amazon's server could be connected as well? Any bets on who's not getting a free Kindle for Christmas this year?
I went to Wikileaks months ago after reading an article about Julian Assange in the New Yorker. Julian is a skinny Aussie, living on the run in Nordic Europe. Wikileaks gained notoriety for posting a video from Iraq showing civilians and journalists being gunned down. Most everything else on the site was crushingly boring. State Department documents, secret or not, don't make for exciting reading. Neither do the US Army Intelligence documents Wikileaks posted a few years back.
There are no papers saying, "At this address under the fake name this, we believe an evil plotter to be living," or, "Our spy such and such is using this fake name has their sights set on assassinating this person". I'd hope by now we'd all lose this sense of intrigue behind "classified" and "secret" documents, like real life is like James Bonds movies. I imagine, as far as films go, life's probably closer to J.K. Simmons' CIA-boss-man character from Burn After Reading when he says, baffled and disinterested, "Uh, well, report back...when it makes sense...I guess."
Yes, from what I've heard about the "leaks" most of it appears to be very dry and so non James Bondish.
ReplyDeleteI missed getting to the webpage, oh well, I'll live.
while I hate to think of a Rape charge as being falsified, I do worry about that, it doesn't help when it turns out to be consensual, but called Rape in the beginning to destroy a life if not more. The timing is just a bit to suspect....
Look forward to your next post oh great blogger man...