Julian Assange and the Inevitable Fall of Leftist Saviors
It is hypocrisy of the kind only the Left could ever countenance, and it’s all a far cry from the heady days of those first document dumps. Which incidentally came not as the result of investigative journalism or cunning on the part of Assange, but courtesy of the treachery of Private First Class Bradley Manning. Wikileaks has since faded from the headlines and is said to be on the verge of collapse, and Assange has become more adept at blowing his own trumpet than blowing whistles.
Last Sunday, Assange decided it was time the world heard from him again. Amid farcical scenes, he appeared on the balcony of his refuge to demand the United States call off its “witch hunt” against himself and Wikileaks. Diplaying his customary flair for the portentous, Assange asked:
[Will the United States] affirm the revolutionary values it was founded on … or will it lurch off the precipice, dragging us all into a dangerous and oppressive world in which journalists fall silent under the fear of prosecution and citizens must whisper in the dark?
For the time being, Assange remains in legal and diplomatic limbo. The British government caused a stir by suggesting it could revoke the embassy’s diplomatic status in order to seize him, although it is unlikely to do so given the precedent it would set. Unless his hosts manage to smuggle him past the watching police in a rolled-up rug and spirit him to South America, it seems that Assange will remain in the embassy for as long as his new friends will tolerate him, unless he decides that he can somehow turn facing the music in Sweden to his advantage.
With Assange exposed as a coward, a hypocrite, and a narcissist in the eyes of all but his most blinded supporters (a few hard-core British leftists continue to downplay the charges against him and belittle his alleged victims); with the journalists who once danced to his tune having disowned him over his increasing recklessness and his disregard for the safety of individuals compromised by his activities; and with his organization in disarray, this seems a good time to reflect on the whole Wikileaks phenomenon, and to assess how the grandiose claims made by the group and its admirers have held up.
“With Assange exposed as a coward, a hypocrite, and a narcissist in the eyes of all but his most blinded supporters”
And our Army generals, and no small number of our Marine generals, have been exposed to all but their most blinded supporters as Perfumed Pimps masquerading as Generals who have no regard for America and it’s Constitution or their own troops and who are all out sons-of-#itches, traitors, and chronic dhimmis! And THEY, not Assange, are the ones who have gotten thousands of their own troops lifeless and limbless for nothing but their own egos and their see no Islam, hear no Islam, see no Islam, know no Islam, career uber alles blindness.
“It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognize, out of a number of facts, which are incidental and which vital, otherwise your energy and attention must be dissipated instead of being concentrated”. (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
FeralCat,
The left, in general, is an ideology of death. To be sure, many of the military’s high command have been co-opted by this disease and share the blame.
In fact, my commentary today at my blog attests to the devil of leftism, and all its ramification for Israel in particular, and the US too. Obviously, wither Israel & the US goes, so too does the rest of the west.
See, ‘The Dangerous Morphing/Twinning/Sell Out of Israel’s Leftist Media…With A Lethal, Leftist Washington’ – http://www.adinakutnicki.com
There is not much time left to save the west from self implosion…and we all know who will pick up the pieces!!
see no Islam, hear no Islam,
seespeak no Islam, know no IslamTapping into a traitor and throwing our dirty laundry up in the air made him a hero to some.The mixed up genetic soup that barely made him a male never made him a man.To be anything he had to blend in with the left or not be noticed at all.OK we can see you,and your religion of transparency;thats it?
If you “Search and Replace” every name with “Barack Obama” then you get the same story. I want to say “that’s odd” but it’s just normal leftism at work. But I do wonder… can it really be “hypocrisy” if it’s a normal and customary work practice?
Assange is a throwback to self-agrandizing anti-establishment jerks of the 50s and 60s, BUT —
The Swedish charges are based entirely on feminazi crap. The out of control feminists have got “rape” laws to include rolling over in the morning half asleep and having another go with your partner, forgetting to put another condom on. The guy is guilty of rape, the girl, though part of the action, has no responsibility whatever and is a victim (gasp!). All because the penis has been declared an anti-feale weapon since AIDS.
And that’s what he’s charged with — by two groupies who by all accounts gleefully did him on different nights just because of his celebrity. He of course went along, being a stupid male.
This smells to high heaven of a ham-handed US plot reminiscent of the goonish KGB. Though he’s a fool, the charges are even more foolish. Let him go to Ecuador.
I agree. He’ll fare so well in that dismal hellhole. I don’t care about the leftwing sex charges, as you described. I care about what he did with regards to classified information.
Plus, it’s easier to pay off people in Ecuador to see to his dining and personal habits than it is in Sweden. Just sayin’.
Hey, Ecuador ain’t so bad in the Mountain Region. The city of Cuenca feels more like a first world Eurpean place.
Gee, no worries. Pelaut has already held Assange’s trial and found him not guilty. Set Assange free, Great God Almighty, set him free.
Nice try, but he is accused of having sex with her while she was semi or fully unconcious due to drinking and of not wearing a condom, which are either criminal or dangerous to the woman in question.
he is accused of having sex with her while she was semi or fully unconcious due to drinking
In your mind I’m sure that means something. Plenty of women have had sex with me while I was “semi or fully unconcious due to drinking”, and it never occurred to me that they were guilty of rape. Apparently when women (but not MEN!) voluntarily drink alcohol, all sorts of laws kick in to protect them from the consequences of their subsequent actions.
That’s because you’ve been conditioned to believe that “rape!” is something that can only be perpetrated by men and only happens to females.
When I snap my fingers, you will awaken from your feminist-induced trance and remember that you are a human being.
If these charges are, as you say, “feminazi crap”, then it would behoove Asange to stop hiding.
If you think the US government is capable of subtlety and able to convince hard-core leftist females to charge sexual abuse, I would like some of what you’re smoking or drinking. Generally speaking, in lefty circles it’s considered something of an obligation to sexually service lefty celebrities, and the women’s accounts actually demonstrate that. Neither woman would have filed a legal complaint had they not compared notes and found that Asange is, at best, an inconsiderate bully and not very good in bed.
If this was not knock-down, drag-out, forcible rape, it was certainly disgusting behavior. The Swedes have a different take on the behavior than we do, but I guess that’s also feminazi crap.
Yes it is. You need to live in Sweden a long, long time and you’ll understand.
See STEVE M and Mich Ely for the rest of my answer.
Assange has done us a great service: he pointed out how leaky our govt is.
The White House’s leaks on the killing of Osama caused a life imprisonment of a Pakistani scientist who believed us and squealed on Osama. The White House also disclosed our SEAL’s tactics and capabilities, endangering future missions. All for showing how “gutsy” the guy who took directives from Valerie Jarrett was. Btw, the rocket technology that enabled the Chinese to shoot for the moon was provided by aerospace giant Loral, with permissions from Clinton’s Commerce Dept. Those leaks were at least hundred times more damaging than whatever Assange has done.
Assange was the messenger that we wanted to kill. He exposed our flaws. In times of war, we hope our enemies were as kind to let us know there was a leak. We have no one but ourselves to blame for not securing our so-called top secrets. May be we should never have so many “top secrets” to cover the top brass’ ass, and should have secured better the real “top secrets” to protect our national security. We should thank Assange.
Nice encapsulation of the Assuage controversy and the panting expectation by leftists that his moment in the international spotlight was (yet another) instance where the world was about to turn on a dime. The left will forever be the bridesmaid and never the bride.
Julian Assange is a crusader for his own self-importance.
Legal troubles for this egomaniacal twerp are richly deserved.
The proof of Assange’s disingenuousness is the way he had the opportunity to play a role in the exposure of climatgate, and chose not to. The proof of Assange’s chutzpah is that he then took credit for it.
If Assange and Wikileaks are such great crusaders for openness and transparency, why have I never heard of him leaking anything from Leftist governments like, say, North Korea, Cuba or China?
If he was really about openness, he should be leaking from every government, not just democracies. If he doesn’t do that, he would appear to be simply anti-American/anti-capitalist and not anti-secrecy at all.
A very perceptive analysis of Assange’s attraction for the left.
Julian who?
Snarky hits it on the head. Assange is nothing but a dedicated Leftist hell-bent on damaging Democratic and Capitalist-based nations. Sure, they have their problems. But to champion yourself as a crusader for openness and justice while completely ignoring Islamic and Left wing governments – especially the most brutal of them (N. Korea, Cuba, China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela), is hypocrisy at its worst.
Given the bias of the media, it’s the most effective camoflage.
It’s all proof of the brain-damage of liberalism.
They work very hard to make heroes out of very ordinary, very angry, petulant and bitter people that they completely lose sight of reality; an absolute must to succeed in leftism/socialism.
The leftista must be able to go outside, light up their cigarette, while using matches made from recycled paper, and condemn anyone who smokes in a restaurant. They must drive their Jeep Cherokee to the gas station and, while filling up, yell at the owner of the Cadillac Escalade filling their tank because they are “killing Gaia”. They must also bitch about the cost of gasoline while praising the shutdown of Gulf Oil activity.
They must praise the savior in the white house while ignoring the theft and illegal activity that is right in front of them, while also condemning voter ID laws as ‘racist’, yet ignoring the waste of money on Solyndra, and drive on down to Wal-Mart to buy school supplies while lamenting the loss of US jobs to overseas by the “greedy corporations”.
Again, it’s not that they’re wrong; It’s that they know so much that isn’t so.
Off topic: Can we all agree to stop calling the left-liberals and their religion-liberalism. They are at best marxists and more likily self-loathing totalitarians in their hatred of everything good, decent and American.
On topic: JA is a cult of personality for the left. However given the level of delusion, self-hatred and paranoia the left exhibits, what would be for a sane person is a certain level of cognitive dissonance regarding what JA leaks, they do not perceive. As long as the leaks destroy America, they are okay with it.
Completely agree. “Liberal” has to do with freedom. The people I know who call themselves liberals are anti-freedom, and would shut down free speech in a heartbeat if given the chance. Meeting Fidel Castro would make them pee their pants with delight–never might his thousands of political prisoners locked up a few miles from Guantanamo Bay.
Someone must question the so called “Leading liberal newspapers” and ask how it is even rational that a foreign national can in any way decide what information a duly elected government can keep secret. Please let me know if they can even sputter a coherent answer. It is up to the voters of that nation to be always vigilant.
Have a couple of diplomats been recalled or not?
I love that crap about Sweden extraditing him to the US where he could possibly face the death penalty. Hahahahahahah.
If he is so smart, and so much the international political player, he should know that Europe hates the US death penalty; that many European nations have refused to extradite certain indivituals to the US just because of our death penalty.
There is absolutely zero possibility of Sweden extraditing him to the US if he could potentially face the death penalty here. (Long term incarceration is another story, and Europe is OK with that.) Stupid much, do you, Mr. Assange?
The funniest bit of hypocrisy was when Assange cried foul after someone leaked the details of the rape allegations to the press.
Et tu, Julian? I thought transparency was the order of the day? Isn’t it always acceptable to steal confidential documents and distribute them? Oh wait–it depends on whether the documents support your agenda or not.
Even better, he apparently has never heard, “Never go to bed with someone crazier than yourself”. This is perhaps a perfect example.
It’s funny how socialists, while claiming to understand people, find themselves on the naivte’ side of the aisle when one of their fellow travelers pulls the rug out from under them.
Leftism is a dog looking for a place to pee.
This mangy cur of a political movement does nothing but mark its territory and look for a fight, trying to establish dominance. A pack animal that is attractive to the singularly unattractive. Mangy, dirty, flea-ridden, diseased…permanently snarling and snapping…and fouling the landscape.
This is DECIDEDLY NOT ‘LIBERAL’.
“Assange mange” is a disease that the leftists bathed in, because they are no less curs than he is. He wanted to be the Alpha and all the Omegas were licking his privates in submission to his “authority” as he stole national security information that the Obama losers would have given to him or the Daily Duranty for free.
When a mangy cur leftist engages in rape …or talks about it…it isn’t “rape-rape” or even “legitimate rape”, it’s just sex. Heaven forbid a Pro-Lifer talks about it…then, it’s a national catastrophe.
Did Akin drive anyone off a bridge recently? NO? Then he would be qualified as Senator from Mass. but not from Missouri. Different standards, I guess.
Assange is at the equator, trying not to be shipped to the North Pole. I suggest that he merely continue what he has been doing and apply for Anita Dunn’s job or Obama’s campaign staff. That way, his “leaking” all over the landscape can at least have the “executive privilege” protections and he can escape the heat. Heaven knows, Donilon could learn a thing or two about being a traitor from the master. Leftists….they deserve each other. Guarding against them is like guarding a sack of fleas. Literally.
Thug is the plan
Leftists refuse to indict their own. No enemies on the Left. They have to have this policy, in order to advance their minority-held position. This leaves them open to every sociopath to advance his own selfish agenda, by pretending to support their agenda. It’s how they swell their numbers. If not for this, they would have too little support to really matter, like the Libertarians on the Right. They would be relegated back to the fringes.
Assange mouths the agenda of the Left, but like the people behind the agenda, he doesn’t mean any of it. He is just another sociopathic street-hustler using the Left for his own ends. It’s what it is always about.
No matter how hypocritical Assange may have been, the charges against him are bogus, and a very strong tool of the left.
Remember DSK? Remember Duke Lacrosse.
Even if you dislike Assange, the outrage should be against those who allow bogus rape charges to haul someone before a kangaroo court.
Agree strongly with this comment, and with the comparisons used. The DSK accuser is a con artist, and the Duke lacrosse accuser is — well, is a lot of things, and is presently in jail awaiting trial for murder.
The original article states that Assange’s Wikileaks caused no serious harm. I certainly hope that is true, but it must be noted that, if so, it’s not for lack of trying on Assange’s part.
22 is right, Assange’s side haven’t acknowledged his character flaws. Really now they have just deflected blame onto America again.The latest I got was a petition stating that our governments should not be lackeys to the Americans and extradite him, so he isn’t the coward, the British and Swedish governments are you see.
Yes, please give him to Ecuador, better yet, send him to Galapagos island, he’ll be happy there, cause he looks like he might do it with reptiles, such a f..ing creature.
Assange is a glory-seeking scumbag, who managed to get his hands on an enormous cache of secret documents, which he released entirely for his own benefit. Whether that was bad for the US or good is a matter open to a great deal of debate (bad for some politicians, certainly, and very likely bad for immediate US strategic interests, but longer term is much harder to say and depends a great deal on opinions about current policy, etc.).
But have any of you actually checked the charges against him? It’s not secret – the charges are all public information.
Here, quoted straight from bloody wikipedia: