Hell, no. I am angry about the fool''s arrogant self-absorbtiojn and his willful crim8inal behavior. Anyone who thinks he is a hero is a fool.

@wordywalt - like Daniel Ellsberg?

@WilliamCharles No. Ellsberg was a principled profeessional who acted on behalf of his country. Assange is an arrogant, self-sbsorbed egotist. He has no respect for anyone or anything. He is underindictment in Sweden for rape. He does not follow any standards for behavior which takes others in account. For example, he was kiched out of the Bolivian embassy (where he was holed up to avoid arrest) because he had n

o standards fior cleanliness or sanitation. He also willingly and knowlingly colluded with the Russians to reklease to release hacked information from the Democratic headquarters. In so doing, he sought to help the idiot Trump and the Russian governjment. That was a criminal act, if not treasonous. He actually helped Trump to win the election.. I will never forgive him for that.

@wordywalt - from Ellsberg himself.

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"In an interview with "Useful Idiots," Daniel Ellsberg talks about official deceptions, and how he was upheld as the "good" whistleblower to disparage the likes of Ed Snowden and Julian Assange."

[taibbi.substack.com]

@WilliamCharles You ignored the points I made. You afre all too prone to doing that.

@wordywalt - you regularly respond to entire articles with nothing other than a snide putdown, so cry me a river, umkay?

@wordywalt - sometimes what you post is mind-numbingly idiotic.

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"Assange was under total surveillance while in the embassy. They didn’t release the footage of him smearing his poop on the walls because it simply doesn’t exist. It’s a crock of shit."

[mintpressnews.com]

@wordywalt - you might want to lay off the Kool-Aid.

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"Laws about consent and rape are significantly different in Sweden from most other societies. Assange had consensual sex with two women, “SW” and “AA” in Sweden in August 2010. SW and AA were acquainted with each other and texted about their encounters and, after learning about some uncomfortable sexual experiences SW said she’d had with Assange, AA convinced SW to go to the police together to compel Assange to take an AIDS test. AA took her to see her friend and political ally who was also a police officer. SW said one of the times Assange had initiated sex with her happened while she was “half-asleep” (legally and literally very different from asleep) and without a condom, and AA said Assange had deliberately damaged his condom before using it. SW freaked out when she learned the police wanted to charge Assange with rape for the half-asleep incident, and refused to sign any legal documents saying that he had raped her. She sent a text that she “did not want to put any charges against JA but the police wanted to get a grip on him,” and said she had been “railroaded by police and others around her.” AA went along with the process."

[caityjohnstone.medium.com]

@wordywalt - often I consider responding to you a "fool's errand" as you spout so much misinformation, it requires a truly remedial approach trying to disabuse you of your deeply held beliefs of sophistry and nonsense.

@WilliamCharles Truth and objectivity are never your long suits. Disparing others who disagree with you seems to your greatest propensity.

@WilliamCharles Not s ingle statement that I made above is untrue. You disparage it simply because you do not like it and cannot refute it.

@wordywalt - jeez, Walt. Talk about projection. The rape and embassy lies were roundly shot down.

@WilliamCharles Whre and by whom? It seems that you believe anything you want to, and simply reject anything yuou don't want to be true.

@wordywalt - well then, believe what you want. I think I dig a little deeper beneath the establishment narrative.

Looking back at the give and take, there's no reply from you Walt, as to your views on coalition war crimes. If you do indeed feel they're something to be discouraged, what mechanism do you envision to be able to bring them to light? Why do you feel in this case that the person who was instrumental in revealing these crimes should be punished more severely than those entities responsible for committing them?