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[wellington1869]

BERLIN – WikiLeaks has lost a major source of revenue after the online payment service provider PayPal cut off its account used to collect donations, saying the website is engaged in illegal activity

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101204/ap_on_hi_te/wikileaks

[Brian8bit]

They won't be happy until Assange is dead. But there's no way they're going to plug him in public. Instead they'll destroy his reputation with rape allegations, then bankrupt him.

[wellington1869]

They won't be happy until Assange is dead. But there's no way they're going to plug him in public. Instead they'll destroy his reputation with rape allegations, then bankrupt him.

I saw the interveiw with the rape accuser, and to be honest, it sounds like she has a solid case. They also interveiewed a bunch of his other girlfriends who had similar stories. Apparently he really does have serious sex/violence issues. I wouldnt be so ready to discount the allegations, its unlikely that all those women are in a conspiracy with the CIA.  They're hurting their own social futures by coming out as rape and abuse victims.

[wellington1869]

and yea between you and me, i'd plug him if the CIA offered me a gun and a minimal amount of cash. But yea, i dont think the women are in on it.

(tho to be clear, i wont plug him because of the leaks, which are laughably banal in nearly very case, and mostly beneficial to the west.  I'd plug him for that Palinesque combination of incompetence and pretension that he has in spades).

[Fwiffo]

Interesting that wellington thinks pretension is a capital crime. How enlightened.

[Brian8bit]

at which point there'll likely be "an assassination" while he's being transported somewhere.

An old British favourite being that he'll commit suicide while in custody.

[Fwiffo]

If he does get assassinated, it'll be by the Israelis or the Russians. Neither seems to have gotten hip to the futility of creating martyrs. You'll know which depending on if it's some exotic poison or just a bunch of guys with guns.

The sex-crime charges are much more American-style *cough*Scott Ritter*cough*.

[wellington1869]

Neither seems to have gotten hip to the futility of creating martyrs.

funny, i'd have said that about the islamists.

[wellington1869]

Interesting that wellington thinks pretension is a capital crime. How enlightened.

oh, it. most. certainly. is.

[Daniel Beaver]

Hard to blame PayPal, really. Companies have been dropping support like it's a hot potato, and I can't argue with the business logic of it.

I'm a Wikileaks and Assange supporter, BTW (sent him a few bucks via PayPal, incidentally). Eat your heart out, Welly.

[wellington1869]

Hard to blame PayPal, really. Companies have been dropping support like it's a hot potato, and I can't argue with the business logic of it.

I'm a Wikileaks and Assange supporter, BTW (sent him a few bucks via PayPal, incidentally). Eat your heart out, Welly.

I'm not surprised. A lot of well intentioned people regularly try to defend islamists and other lunatics, so why not assange too. The important thing is that those in positions of actual authority do the right thing, and looks like they are.

[Ekaros]

I'm not surprised. A lot of well intentioned people regularly try to defend islamists and other lunatics, so why not assange too. The important thing is that those in positions of actual authority do the right thing, and looks like they are.

Yeah, I agree, only on somewhat different side and matter.

Still, it's Assagnes job to take the hits, there is much much more behind Wikileaks, but someone has to be the front...



Also, the blame on this "crisis" is those idiots who decide it would be good idea to let 2,5 million people have access, what they were expecting? Ofcourse, in olden days info would have been sold to some other country and likely was and some for some media, but it's just too different world nowdays...