Wikileaks Julian Assange lost tooth, was stuck with child molestors in prison, he claims

[RamboLiberal]

Source: NY Daily News

Prison apparently did not agree with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

The 39-year-old Australian whined to Spanish newspaper El Pais that he had been held in a wing housing people who “have been convicted of sexual offenses, child killers.” He also told the paper he lost a tooth after chewing on a metal object stuck in his food.

"It will soon be for sale on eBay," he joked about the missing tooth, which he said he wrapped in paper and placed in his cell. "I suppose because they didn't want any kind of evidence that such an episode had occurred."





Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2010/12/20/2010-12-20_wikileaks_julian_assange_lost_tooth_was_stuck_with_child_molestors_in_prison_he_.html

[xchrom]

1. Unrec - he didn't whine about any thing. Nt

[molly77]

21. NY Daily News is right wing. Of course they would put the Nazi spin on things.

[stray cat]

2. When you are in prison there are usually other prisoners who did something illegal

[JuniperLea]

3. Wake up, dumbass...

They put all manner of bad people in prison... umm... it's what prison is all about.

[mrfrapp]

8. Due Process

Due Process -- Look it up.

[KansDem]

12. I think it was the juxtaposition of placing a non-violent person in with violent ones...

I believe that was the concern here, not "whining."

It's almost as if certain "powers-that-be" would prefer him killed in prison before he could get to trial...

[TheMadMonk]

33. "Killed", "accidentally" cremated and ignore that plane bound for...

...somewhere in the 'Stans.

I think the whole point of this circus is create as many "opportunities" for him to plausibly disappear as possible.

[fascisthunter]

15. due process

[fascisthunter]

16. "whined"... okeedokee

what a wonderful time of the day

[Kaleko]

17. "Wake up, dumbass..." ?

Taking the jibes of a sleazy tabloid rag like the Daily News for factual reporting would make you the one who needs to wake up, sorry to say.

[NeoConsSuck]

4. Whined?

wow, talk about being transparent! They don't even try to camoflauge their bias.

[HEyHEY]

29. Yeah, that's pretty nuts

Fuck, first day of J-school they taught us about editorializing... none of the examples of things we were not supposed to do were as bad as that, "whined" comment.

[Better Believe It]

5. Another expose of the evil terrorist Mr. Assange. Have you been following the National Enquirer?

So what's the latest National Enquirer scope on Assange?

Oh .... here we go!



WIKILEAKS GURU RAPE BUST

http://www.nationalenquirer.com/celebrity/69777

And here's an even bigger "exclusive" story about Assange!





ASSANGE CHILDHOOD SECRETS

Filmmaker Michael Moore admitted contributing $20,000 to the bail fund.

Yet, In an EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW with The ENQUIRER, his stepfather BRETT ASSANGE revealed that Julian's mother is so terrified by the furor caused by her son that she's gone into hiding.

Brett, who lives in Sydney, Australia, believes the motivation for Wiki-Leaks comes from Julian's childhood, a time when the youngster - whom he remembers as a "gifted child with an enormous ego" - was "deliberately treated like an adult" by his parents.

Brett revealed that Julian, now 39, was often bullied for being a nerd, and at times showed outbursts of violent behavior.

http://www.nationalenquirer.com/julian_assange_wikileaks_secret_past_exclsuive_interview_stepdad/celebrity/69822

I thought so! That explains his violent terrorist activity! BBI

[sabrina 1]

7. I love this:

Yet, In an EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW with The ENQUIRER, his stepfather BRETT ASSANGE revealed that Julian's mother is so terrified by the furor caused by her son that she's gone into hiding.

I guess Julian's mom hasn't been telling his step-father where she's been lately. Far from hiding, she was in England, visiting her son in jail, delivering his messages to his supporters, and then leaving with him when he left prison.

At least the Enquirer is an actual 'tabloid schmuck' although it's hard to tell the difference between them and the MSM, eg, Jim Sciutto, Tabloid Schmuck who works for ABC.

[sabrina 1]

6. I don't know why they are wasting their time trying to make

HIM look bad. The only ones looking bad to the rest of the world, are the U.S. Government who have been whining like babies because the world got to see their war crimes on film, the slaughter of innocent civilians, the brutal wounding of two little children, and the murder of their father whose only crime was trying to be a good Samaritan and help out a wounded Reuters News Reporter, who was shot against all rules of war, aside from the fact that he was an innocent person.

Nothing they write about Julian Assange or Wikileaks, will erase the war crimes being committed on a daily basis.

And each time they write about Assange's arrest and jailing, all it does is remind the world that an award-winning journalist was jailed in Britain with NO CHARGES against him.

Go Julian!! :applause: for making corrupt leaders around the world quake in their jack boots, as they may be able to control THEIR journalists, but they cannot control Wikileaks and now all the other copy cat organizations which the world so badly needs.

I expect Wikileaks will soon be receiving leaks from whistle-blowers inside the inhumane prison system from this country and other so-called civilized nations. That would be one good outcome from the time he spent in prison.

[BenzoDia]

9. He "whined?" What kind of journalism is this?

[KansDem]

13. The same kind that asserts "he claims"

What if the headlines of 10 years ago read, "Bush whines, 'Saddam has WMDs!' and claims a war with him is necessary."

...or something like that.

[trud]

19. BenzoDia

It's biased journalism. Just what my Civics teacher taught us about when she underlined adjectives in articles in Time.

I suspect they don't teach kids how to recognize that any more, any more than they teach U.S. history, otherwise the Beck/Limbaugh crowd wouldn't have an audience.

[tomm2thumbs]

10. this is 'latest breaking news'? /nt

[sabrina 1]

11. Well, to be fair, it is hard to tell the difference between

tabloid 'news' and real 'news' anymore. I guess in the world of U.S. 'journalism' this is quality reporting. As Assange called them 'tabloid schmucks' are now mainstream 'journalists'.

[treestar]

14. So he wasn't getting any attention today

So his lost tooth is his best bet for it.

:rofl:

[Luminous Animal]

18. Here is the interview directly from El Pais (in English)

http://www.elpais.com/articulo/english/I/get/death/threats/constantly/do/my/lawyer/and/my/children/elpepueng/20101220elpeng_4/Ten

Here is his so-called whining:
"Speaking about his time in the London prison, he explains that he was transferred three times, and that each cell he was in was completely closed- this is not the case for other inmates. After being in a holding cell for the newly arrested, he was taken to Wandsworth's Onslaw Centre, a wing that holds 350 prisoners- those who "run the risk of physical danger from other prisoners or the guards," due to their having committed sexual crimes or having harmed children. "I couldn't leave my cell but a lot of inmates slipped things under my door. There was a lot of curiosity."

-Notes, messages?

-Yes. The prisoners in Wandsworth are all waiting to be extradited. They passed me US extradition papers. But it was decided that it was still too dangerous for me to stay in Onslaw.

-Why?

-Because of the danger that someone might attack or kill me. So they moved me to the isolation wing, euphemistically named the Care and Separation Unit... where they send the most unruly prisoners."

[BenzoDia]

20. Wait, so he's saying that the Guardian is part of the attack against him now?

Hmmmmm

[EFerrari]

23. No, he's not saying that. He's talking about the material, not the paper. n/t

[BenzoDia]

24. But he's criticizing them for leaving out key points.

[EFerrari]

26. Sure. But The Guardian has been very supportive of wikileaks.

He had to plug his own points. That doesn't mean he's "turned" on them or anything.

[BenzoDia]

34. The NY Times was supportive as well, but he cut them off

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/29/AR2010112905421.html

Bill Keller, the Times' editor, wasn't certain why WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, chose not to work with his newspaper on the latest leaks. But he suggested it might be related to a hard-hitting profile of Assange that the Times published in October. The story, which described Assange as "a hunted man," said that "some of his own comrades are abandoning him for what they see as erratic and imperious behavior."

...

The Guardian initially requested that the Times keep the source of the material secret - apparently to remain in Assange's good graces - but the request was lifted Sunday evening as the stories began to break.

[EFerrari]

36. Not really. The NYTs ran a smear by Bush butt-kisser, Judy Miller collaborator

John Burns. Night and day, really.

[EFerrari]

38. It looks like I was wrong about this and you were right:

Assange turns on the Guardian over assault case coverage

WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange has fiercely criticised media partner the Guardian, accusing the newspaper of "selectively publishing" incriminating sections of a Swedish police report about the sexual assault allegations he faces.

Speaking in this morning's Times (paywall) in his first UK newspaper interview since releasing the US embassy cables, Assange claims that the leak of the police report to the Guardian was deliberately timed to undermine his bail application and calls an article by Nick Davies based on the report "disgusting".

"The leak of the police report to the Guardian was clearly designed to undermine my bail application. It was timed to come up on the desk of of the judge that morning."

Assange claims that the police documents were leaked 24 hours before his final bail hearing last Thursday. They were not published by the Guardian until Saturday however, after he had been granted bail.

A spokesman from the Guardian's publisher, Guardian News and Media told Journalism.co.uk that: "His lawyers promised a full response by Friday, 4pm. They did not come through with a response but we included a statement and other rebuttals Julian made to the police.

http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/assange-turns-on-the-guardian-over-assault-case-coverage/s2/a542064/

[TorchTheWitch]

39. I've noticed the supportive nature of The Guardian too

Which is biased as much as an unsupportive publication would be. Apparently, bias is only a problem when a particular publication is either supportive of someone you like and unsupportive of someone you don't like. Funny, I thought news was supposed to be non-biased - neither supportive nor unsupportive save for editorials. How does one get to the truth from publications that show bias in either direction?

Have you forgotten that THE TRUTH is supposedly what Wikileaks and Assange are all about? No bias? Just the facts? Assange doesn't practice what he preaches seeing that he only wants to deal with supportive publications, even stomps off in a huff calling a journalist a rude name in an interview only at the moment when asked a question concerning allegations factually devulged in court and - oh, the irony - the only good leaks are ones that aren't supportive of him.

[BenzoDia]

40. Yeah, I used to regard The Guardian as top notch journalism.

But after the Embassy cables, I've had a change of heart. It's apparent that they want the wikileaks scoop to elevate above where it is.

[BenzoDia]

25. Also, wth with the Martin Luther King comparison? That's really bizarre to mention that

even if someone else supposedly said it.

[EFerrari]

28. I bet it was pretty bizarre to read it on a note shoved into his cell.

The comparison wasn't his.

[BenzoDia]

31. Any decent person would be embarrased by the comparison,

Once again, he's hyping himself over the work.

[EFerrari]

32. So, are you Kreskin and is that how you know how Assange feels

about that note?

Can I get the lottery numbers from you? I could really use the cash this week.

How can a person give an interview and not be hyping themselves? Should good children be seen and not heard?

[BenzoDia]

35. Nah, I just know bunk when I see it.

Watch, he'll get crazier as time goes on.

[pitohui]

22. sounds like he was put in w. a bunch of sex offenders

no doubt tiresome company for a man of his intelligence but "technically" correct since he was charged w. sexcrime rather than the crime he actually committed of afflicting the powerful...

as others say, slanted words like "whined" are more worthy of fox news than the few remaining print news sources but i seldom expect better of the ny daily news i'm afraid

[Hulk]

27. Something I might expect if he were in American prisons...

...but then, we did take our legal system from England...and they are nothing but a puppet to this government anyway.

[canetoad]

30. I know you are only the messenger RamboLiberal

I wish people would consider the source, the sources' agenda and the political donations behind the source before latching on to the very worst connotations that such a story can hold.

I'll also bet my house, car and dogs on the fact that Assange never said, "It will soon be for sale on eBay". Good on you for reporting the story as it was written, bringing this outrageous excuse for journalism to the eyes of DU.

Too many people on this site confuse the message with the messenger. Once it was a place where you could view practically every breaking news story as soon as it broke. These days, the fact that you have posted a disagreeable (to the majority of DU) article means the poster is reviled. This should not be so, especially when you have, as is your right, declined to comment or elaborate further on the story.

For the DU record, I am a Wikileaks supporter who refuses to conflate Julian Assange with all that is 'good'. He is human, he has faults and no doubt at times his faults contribute to his actions. DU in general needs to step back from the hero worship and the inevitable crash when the hero turns out to have, if not feet of clay, a small toe that does not agree with your overall assumption that 'heroes' can never do wrong.

I've never been a prolific poster; lately the kneejerk reactions when confronted with a story that readers don't like makes DU a less attractive source for obtaining latest news and a reasoned discussion on the same.

Thank you for posting RamboLiberal. We need to be informed of what the right wing is saying and I note, this story was posted with no comment from yourself. It's time DUers grew up and gave more consideration to the credibility of the site as a current and organic news source and less to the necessity of reading only reported stories with which they agree.

[yurbud]

37. how sympathetic would the same paper be to jailed Wall Street execs (if there was such a thing?)

you know those pampered candy asses would be crying as soon as they realized there weren't champagne bidets in their cells.