Posts by giovanni tiso
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Hard News: The Wellington Cables, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
I've provided links where lawyers connected with Assange have said precisely that
Can you repost them please? I've tried going backwards in your comments history but it's stuck on page one.
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Hard News: The Wellington Cables, in reply to Deborah,
can we have a significant mea culpa from the lawyer, and everyone else who has been throwing the "lying slappers" epithet around
Actually, I think you'll find that that was all Craig, and frankly I wouldn't hold my breath, apology-wise. But the lawyer said no such thing. And the 'secret agenda' that Craig let drop without further qualification had nothing to do with the CIA.
"It was, I believe, more about jealousy and disappointment on their part. I can prove that at least one of them had very big expectations for something to happen with Julian."
That's the extent of it.
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Hard News: The Wellington Cables, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
And since he thinks he's the blameless victim of a CIA honeytrap baited by Pussy Galore and Plenty O'Toole
Can you remind me when it was that Assange suggested the two women were acting on behalf of the CIA?
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Hard News: The Wellington Cables, in reply to Russell Brown,
Could you manage even a little "ugh" over the way these women have been violated by people who think they're freedom fighters?
I'm on record, personally.
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It's a damn shame all that stuff about various other people's sexual exploits turned up in the first 0.01% of the Cablegate documents to be released, then.
Now that's a fair point. Well taken.
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Hard News: The Wellington Cables, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
YMMV, Gio, but I make a habit of not dog-whistling that victims of property crime are to be presumed liars with a malicious agenda until proven otherwise. Would be nice if the women who've laid much more serious complaints were extended the same courtesy.
Why are we even bothering with a trial then? Can't we just move to sentencing?
That's a change in direction, right there, btw, Gio.
Yes, you're totally right, as we can see evidenced by the ravings of the attorney general that Obama has chosen.
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Hard News: The Wellington Cables, in reply to Neil Morrison,
we have elections, Obama won. There was a substantial peaceful change in the direction of US politics.
Such as?
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Hard News: The Wellington Cables, in reply to Russell Brown,
I do think there are ethical issues in exploiting your position as leader of an organisation that makes moral claims as strong as Wikileaks' to get sex on tap.
There are more or less the same ethical issues that there are in exploiting your position as the leader of a band that rocks as much as The Rolling Stones to get sex on tap. Seriously.
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Hard News: The Wellington Cables, in reply to Russell Brown,
They have consistently implied he is the victim of a conspiracy, when all the reports from Sweden suggest that Assange’s practice of treating Wikileaks as a non-stop groupie pool in a country with strong laws around sexual conduct was a significant contributory factor in what has happened to him.
Can I just point out that it's entirely possible that the accusations against him are in fact false and vexatious? The idea that it's up to Assange and his lawyers to argue otherwise seems... odd, in the extreme. Sounds from the rest of the paragraph that you have pretty much decided he had it coming because he sleeps around, which is, again, frankly quite odd. Having lots of consensual sex surely is not enough in itself to qualify you as a rapist? Just so we're on the same page. (And I'm not pre-judging it the other way either, for the record, but FFS.)
In offering him unquestioning praise
I haven't come across too many people who do that to be honest. But still, at this particular historical time, to argue that WikiLeaks in some form of other in not something that we need would be extraordinary. Making it obsessively about Assange and his philandering is a way of obfuscating that argument of course. And whilst I'm with you on the unseemliness of the attacks and the smearing campaign on the two women, the fact that you seem to have taken offence on behalf of PayPal and Visa and a Swiss bank for the inhuman DoS attacks they've received - this against the historical backdrop of illegal wars, mass immiseration caused by banks, renditions and so forth - is a source of continuing puzzlement.
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Hard News: The Wellington Cables, in reply to Don Christie,
Actually, more like a conspiracy of shit reporting.
It goes all the way to the top.