Assange bailed by London court

[JB3]

Errrmm... really? A Danish insulin factory? A - not secret. B - one of several hundred insulin manufacturers on Earth today.

"a company making anti-snake venom in Australia?" A - not secret. B - Let me know when terrorists attack the world with Australian brown snake venom.

"a Cobalt mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo" A - not even close to a secret, B - funded by US corporate interests,.



The article you linked is 6 months old - no relevance to the current Wikileaks articles. I'm ready to accept Wikileaks criticism, but your refs are ridiculously old, and pretty much irrelevant.

I re-iterate my question - what has Wikileaks output that is dangerous?

The very fact that the US identified them as important to national security makes the list's release dangerous. Sure, they're innocuous, and before this release a terrorist probably wouldn't have looked twice. But now they know that the US sees them as valuable targets, and that's dangerous.

 

[Corny]

important to national security in a case of a war .. i hope. otherwise the US must be a quite pitiful country if they implode once somebody bombs that insulin factory ..

 

[kallipolis]

The Russians, Chinese, Al Qaeda et al couldn't possibly be aware of the location of all those sites, so important to American national security interests? Naivety, at its most insane!

That it was so easy for an American soldier (Bradley Manning) to download millions of State Department files, and then pass them onto certain interests, who are now sharing those files within the public domain does suggest that national security, is not a matter taken too seriously by United States Government departments.

 

[andysayshi]

And that article is a few weeks old. Written after he released the secret diplomatic cables. What time stamp were you looking at?

My bad, I read the date as a non-US date, which of course it was not.

 

[Kulindahr]

Some of these sites would be no-brainers anyway. Cobalt, for example, comes mostly from only three major sources, so it wouldn't be difficult at all to discover where the U.S. is getting supplies.

 

[unloadonme]

Since the last post in this thread in December 2010, Assange has continued his legal fight against extradition from the UK to Sweden. Last week he lost what will almost certainly have been a final appeal to the UK's Supreme Court.

The BBC is reporting the Assange has now taken refuge in the Ecuadorean embassy in London and is seeking asylum. Seems that Ecuador is holding itself out as the home of free speech!

BBC News - Wikileaks' Julian Assange seeks asylum in Ecuador embassy

 

[JB3]

Since the last post in this thread in December 2010, Assange has continued his legal fight against extradition from the UK to Sweden. Last week he lost what will almost certainly have been a final appeal to the UK's Supreme Court.

The BBC is reporting the Assange has now taken refuge in the Ecuadorean embassy in London and is seeking asylum. Seems that Ecuador is holding itself out as the home of free speech!

BBC News - Wikileaks' Julian Assange seeks asylum in Ecuador embassy

Ecuador hasn't granted it yet, and I don't believe they will. I can't imagine they want anything to do with him.

 

[unloadonme]

Ecuador hasn't granted it yet, and I don't believe they will. I can't imagine they want anything to do with him.

True, but why choose Ecuador? I'm sure, for instance, that Iran would welcome him with open arms!

 

[unloadonme]

An update on the story here:

BBC News - Wikileaks founder Julian Assange faces arrest, police say

Seems the President of Ecuador is a fan of Wikileaks!

 

[guyfromNY]

What disturbed me most about Julian Assange was that during his 60 minutes interview, he never smiled. Not even a hint of a smile. I might be nuts but it seemd kind of creepy.

 

[JayHawk]

They will arrest his spying ass ass soon as he leaves that embassy and nothing will stop them from doing it either. Ecuador....ECUADOR? Really.

Ecudaor?? Assange is definitely nuts.

 

[Lostlover]

They will arrest his spying ass ass soon as he leaves that embassy and nothing will stop them from doing it either. Ecuador....ECUADOR? Really.

Ecudaor?? Assange is definitely nuts.

Living in Ecuador sounds like jail to me.

I hope they lock his ass up though here, not in South America.

It's a shame it's taken this long to extradite this narcissist.

 

[JayHawk]

He wont make it to Ecuador or out of the country.

But for someone who touts freedom of expression and no secrets choosing Ecuador is ...ironic. No Moronic.

 

[frankfrank]

A lot of hating on Ecuador going on here...I don't read the publications, but a friend has told me, more than once, that Ecuador gets a lot of accolades from some American emigres who have decided to retire there. This via the publications from the organization INTERNATIONAL LIVING.

It may not be as terrible or "nutty" a place to go, as you may think.

I envision its biggest drawback as being "too Hispanic and monocultural" for me, but the latter may not even be true, either.

 

[broadshoulder]

I am fed up with Julian Assange. Whatever country he goes near he drags into the mire. He's like a walking bacillus.

I almost wish the yanks could catch him and drag to Quantico by his ankles.

But I am a nice person. So I wont.

 

[Kulindahr]

He wont make it to Ecuador or out of the country.

But for someone who touts freedom of expression and no secrets choosing Ecuador is ...ironic. No Moronic.

Ironic.

But if they accept his appeal, he'll have no trouble making it out of the country; they'll just put him in a diplomatic vehicle and drive straight to secure transport.

Though it might work better to ship him in a box labeled "computer parts", under diplomatic seal.