Enough with the Julian Assange hero worship (WW4 Report)

[struggle4progress]

Submitted by Bill Weinberg on Sun, 12/26/2010 - 18:19.

... Assange gets away with anti-feminist rhetoric that would do Rush Limbaugh proud ...

The apparent ties of one Assange accuser to Cuban dissident organizations is being used as evidence that she was part of a "honey-trap" arranged by US intelligence agents. The Miami Herald informed us Dec. 8: "She visited Cuba about four times between 2002 and 2006 as a representative of Swedish social democrats, said Manuel Cuesta Morua, head of Cuba's Arco Progresista, a social-democratic dissident group." But Arco Progresista—like most of the groups highlighted in the accuser's Uppsala University thesis on Cuban democratic opposition—is a left dissident group, not linked to the right-wing "gusano" establishment in Miami (or, presumably, to the CIA). If anyone has really got dirt on Arco Progresista, we'd like to hear it ...

Equally disconcerting are Assange's recent comments to Time magazine expounding his political philosophy — which turns out to be fashionably muddle-headed and reactionary ...

The crowning irony of the Assange affair may be that much of the leaked diplomatic material actually vindicates the very hardline interventionists that the WikiLeaks cult hopes to undermine ...

http://www.ww4report.com/node/9282

[FreakinDJ]

1. From Trash Rag - The Sun

[struggle4progress]

3. You're confused: "on Sun, 12/26/2010" is a date -- Sunday 26 December 2010

I expect you thought the piece was from the wingnut fishwrap NY Sun -- but it's not: it's from World War 4 Report, which has been a reliably useful information source for our side for some years

Regarding the NY Sun, I'm happy to report -- and I'm sure you'll be pleased to learn -- that the print edition collapsed several years ago (although they unfortunately still maintain a website)

[pnwmom]

2. He's a creepy character. Most narcissists are.

And yet they are often capable of charming many people.

[DCKit]

4. In this case, both dangerous and useful.

I guess the Cocaine Import Agency didn't offer enough $$$$$ for his services.

And he probably would've turned on them anyway.

[Pholus]

5. Who cares about the man. It's the idea that matters. Sunshine disinfects. nt

[PaulaFarrell]

6. ok, we get it

You don't like Assange and you want to get as many people as possible to agree with you. But it would be more honest (and less tedious) if you wrote a single well thought-out post explaining why and left it at that, rather than posting every single critical article or editorial you can find.

There are many important things that need changing in the world, and that you could put this time and energy into, especially given that most people here will already have their own opinions and are unlikely to be influenced by random editorials.

[struggle4progress]

8. Weinberg's remarks are factual and detailed

[Enthusiast]

7. Unrecommended.......nt