Julian Assange arrested (merged)

[TarJak]

Well his position in the UK would have become untenable. He wouldn't be allowed to leave with the warrant and hiding there was not a long term option.

[McBeck]

Originally Posted by TarJak

Well his position in the UK would have become untenable. He wouldn't be allowed to leave with the warrant and hiding there was not a long term option.

¨From the interview, nobody have been able to produce the warrent for his arrest...they have just been told that there is one.

[TarJak]

Bail has been refused for Assange: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2...08/3087441.htm

Cables from 2008 critical of Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/tec...207-18obr.html

Strangely these same criticisms were expressed by the Australian media in the same period which probably led to his dumping last year.

[krashkart]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

I photoshopped a Wikileaks page, and left my laptop open.
Now my kids know there's no Santa Claus and will get bugga all.
Saved me a packet, and that pr!ck Julian Assange takes the blame.
Merry Christmas!

I'll have to remember that trick.

[antikristuseke]

Just show them the following video and they wont want santa to come.

[Oberon]

Sarah Palin reacts via Twitter to an article by Julian Assange in Rupert Murdoch's newspaper The Australian (I think that sentence may win a prize in online news buzzword bingo).President Palin just Tweeted:
Someone making things up again? Keep seeing this quote attributed to me. Huh? Wikileaks Assange on Sarah Palin's Criticism http://bit.ly/dXP9za
We'll try and translate that into English but Palin links to a National Review Online piece that quotes Assange's comment piece: "Sarah Palin says I should be 'hunted down like Osama bin Laden'."
As the NRO writer Jim Geraghty points out, Assange has misquoted Palin there. What she actually said was: "Why was he not pursued with the same urgency we pursue al Qaeda and Taliban leaders?" And I think we still count OBL as an al-Qaida leader.
To be fair, Palin did say that Assange should be "pursued with the same urgency" as OBL. So if she meant Assange should be "fruitlessly hunted for nine years without success," then yes, Assange did misquote her.

In British custody. Gitmo is his next residence. We don't want to be unfair to Muslims. All enemies of the US go to the same place.

[Tchocky]

Reading the Gruniard live feed, Oberon? I've been glued to it all day.

My favourite press release of the day was this delicious one from the State Department

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2010/12/152465.htm

The United States is pleased to announce that it will host UNESCO’s World Press Freedom Day event in 2011, from May 1 - May 3 in Washington, D.C. UNESCO is the only UN agency with the mandate to promote freedom of expression and its corollary, freedom of the press.

The theme for next year’s commemoration will be 21st Century Media: New Frontiers, New Barriers. The United States places technology and innovation at the forefront of its diplomatic and development efforts. New media has empowered citizens around the world to report on their circumstances, express opinions on world events, and exchange information in environments sometimes hostile to such exercises of individuals’ right to freedom of expression. At the same time, we are concerned about the determination of some governments to censor and silence individuals, and to restrict the free flow of information.

[Oberon]

It's a good feed, and yes, I lol'd heavily at that press release. And the joke that was twittered later on it.

If Assange is not intered in Gitmo I will object to Gitmo as a place of detention.

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by The Third Man

If Assange is not intered in Gitmo I will object to Gitmo as a place of detention.

If he's going anywhere it will be most likely Sweden, not the US.

[Takeda Shingen]

Originally Posted by The Third Man

If Assange is not intered in Gitmo I will object to Gitmo as a place of detention.

And I am certain that many, many people will care.

Originally Posted by Oberon

If he's going anywhere it will be most likely Sweden, not the US.

But Gitmo isn't the US, it is Cuba.

[antikristuseke]

Originally Posted by The Third Man

But Gitmo isn't the US, it is Cuba.

Or irrelevant at this point.

Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen

And I am certain that many, many people will care.

Why You after me so much? Are my opinions so bad for your opinions?