Posts by giovanni tiso
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I think it's misdirection, whichever way it comes from. You'll always find idiots who are prepared to pre-empt a court case, claim that they know the motivations of the accusers, or that the accused is definitely guilty. So what? Who cares? Would you say "The Left" as a whole is guilty of this? Obviously not. So? You can bring in spurious links like that FDL rant until the cows come home, and continue doing it whilst they're in the shed. Why you'd want to do that, it beats me.
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to Russell Brown,
Talk to FDL et al about that. They're the ones tying it all to the CIA.
Yes, but who cares? I mean globally. Why do we keep going back on whether Assange is guilty of whatever it is that he might be guilty of? He stuck around for a month during the first investigation, and accusations were dropped. Now there is a second prosecutor on the case - and suspicions that this may be the result of political pressures or the high profile of the accused are quite legitimate I think - but the evidence still isn't enough to enable them to issue an actual arrest warrant. It would seem that he is quite entitled not to go back to Sweden, seeing as he wasn't exactly a fugitive in the first place. But beyond that, who gives a shit? Even if (and it's a *huge* if) he was using his role as Wikileaks editor to shield himself from prosecution, how would it impact on what WikiLeaks is or does?
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to Russell Brown,
Defending free speech by smearing the families of 75 men imprisoned for criticising their government isn’t really a good look.
Pity it wasn't Assange who did the smearing, eh?
I'm really struggling to see the relevance of any of this to be honest.
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Busytown: She loves you, YA, YA, YA!, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
Although I personally find comics violence more disturbing than book violence, so.
Yeah, that makes no sense, since books are so much thicker and heavier. You wouldn't get a lot more than a paper cut fom a comic.
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Dita De Boni writes column critical of the welfare reform plans. The NZ Herald decides to distill it into this quote so as to diametrically misrepresent her argument. Quite priceless really.
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Hard News: Popular Paranoiac Politics, in reply to Russell Brown,
One year they had Jim Hopkins and Kerre Woodham.
Dear Lord. What would I give to have been a fly on the wall. A dead one, preferably.
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Two statements that immediately and abruptly contradict each other.
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to Russell Brown,
countries that restrict free access to information or violate the basic rights of internet users risk walling themselves off from the progress of the next century
Irony, thy maiden name is "Rodham".
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to HORansome,
QUIS CUSTODIET IPSOS CUSTODES
Trevor. I remember we took a vote and he was okay with it.
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to James George,
I could go on about Friedman for days
Or you could read his column. It takes five minutes.
Yes China's a nasty place
You haven't, have you?