tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10241627.post7162300983778173875..comments2023-08-24T06:22:35.262-07:00Comments on Troubletown: Dangle's Uneasy Assange RoundupLloyd Danglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10113305080871480707noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10241627.post-28179293957890065252010-12-17T20:38:57.669-08:002010-12-17T20:38:57.669-08:00Since he isn't being tried in a US court, I...Since he isn't being tried in a US court, I'm willing to assume the judge and jury will assess the evidence and render a correct result.<br /><br />As for whether he and/or Lloyd are dicks, well... sometimes the world needs dicks too.Larsen E. Whipsnadenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10241627.post-16775030790297057002010-12-17T11:41:02.228-08:002010-12-17T11:41:02.228-08:00I don't know whether Assange is innocent or gu...I don't know whether Assange is innocent or guilty, but I agree with J. Peckerwood. If rationality were commonplace in political discussion, the fact that the charges came to light when they did would have been an additional embarrassment to the US government as everyone expressed suspicion about the coincidence. And of course, whatever Assange did or did not do in Sweden has rather less bearing on the significance of the documents Wikileaks made public than anything Nixon's plumbers might have found in Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist's files would have had on the significance of the Pentagon Papers.Aciliushttp://losthunderlads.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10241627.post-36419132076042031762010-12-17T08:32:33.779-08:002010-12-17T08:32:33.779-08:00Ouch, that's brutal. MTK told me I was a dick ...Ouch, that's brutal. MTK told me I was a dick too.Lloyd Danglehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10113305080871480707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10241627.post-22189238591286602932010-12-17T00:00:14.768-08:002010-12-17T00:00:14.768-08:00"It's impossible to know what really happ..."It's impossible to know what really happened. But one other thing to consider: Julian Assange looks like kind of a dick. He's probably guilty."<br /><br />Yeah, great logic. Based on that, you and I would both be locked up for life, though preferably not in the same cell –– I've got standards, after all.<br /><br />Is Julian Assange a rapist? I don't know, and neither do you or any of the other completely uniformed pundits who are handing down judgement on this case. If he is, he deserves to go to jail, though not for as long as most of the murderous war-mongers he exposed deserve to. <br /><br />But you and I know that that's not the real issue here. The fact that this shitstorm erupted after the most powerful government on earth named him Pubic Enemy #1 –– well that SHOULD set off all kinds of alarms. I know that you want to be politically correct and all, but if you were the Evil Empire and wanted to discredit the biggest threat to your unfettered reign, what would YOU accuse him of?<br /><br />You disappoint me greatly, Dangle.Judas Peckerwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15847674224173797583noreply@blogger.com