Posts by FletcherB
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Hard News: Media 2011, in reply to giovanni tiso,
You mean more than doing this?
Yes... WAY more than that.
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I would hope, (but cannot be sure) that even despite the US's history of illegal rendition, they would not actually try to get away with it on someone so obviously in the public eye?
For better or worse, we are watching him, and the US would lose any and all moral authority in world-wide public opinion if Assange mysteriously turns up in the USA or even just disappears... The US is already held in low enough regard by many, but the US must surely know trying that would align a whole world of animosity against them?
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A 2009 report found potential for the local industry to grow from the present 300-odd employees to 2829
What an oddly precise prediction. Do they know their names or at least the job-titles too?
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Hard News: The Wellington Cables, in reply to Joe Wylie,
I think that guy's going a little faster than the average graduate's parade (or he has very strong fingers?)
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What I find most interesting, and potentially embarrassing... are the cables where US officials based in country X are reporting home that the local government are saying ABC to us.... which is in stark contrast if not direct contradiction to what the same country X government are telling their own population.
Most of what we are having confirmed about the USA's activities are pretty much as suspected... it's what the diplomats are confirming about their host location's governments that's having a bigger affect (especially in those host nations).
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Hard News: Spinning and soldiering, in reply to recordari,
I just can't get my head around how this is not a curtailment of basic human rights.
Of course it is.... but so is putting someone in prison.
It's not an argument I agree with, but I can understand someone thinking that if you have transgressed the behavioral norms sufficiently to warrant incarceration, might that also be justification to remove other rights? I mean, surely it's no surprise to you that in certain (barbaric) jurisdictions they remove the right to life itself for some crimes?
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to BenWilson,
Oh, and also to catch public limelight, good free advertising for lawyers.
I'm shocked, shocked I tell you, to believe lawyers could think or behave in such a manner...
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OnPoint: Pay Attention, in reply to Ross Mason,
Being told via the media that you are wanted, and having actual valid legal documents informing you of same are not the same thing...
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OnPoint: Pay Attention, in reply to Ross Mason,
He has waited quite a while to finally drop himself off at the cop shop in London Town
That is exactly counter to my understanding of the situation….
From my (admittedly not very in-depth) understanding of the situation… he dropped himself in at the earliest opportunity once a valid warrant had been served.
Of course, you may have been confused by the swedish authorities announcing they had issued a warrant to Interpol a day or two before they really did… the first attempt being incomplete and not legally valid.
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Here's another question....
Paypal, Visa, etc. stopping me from making a payment to an organization's account of my choosing....
1) Are they doing this just to suck up to the US government, or is this a more specific and self-interested response to the promise of up-coming leaks on the US financial industry?
2) Paypal is not a bank and can presumably conduct itself as it see's fit (not that I agree with it). Visa and other banking companies... on what grounds can they legally close access to accounts if no charges have been laid? Are they breaking laws themselves?