Post: #1

Dude has some heavy duty introspection going on. Prepare for massive walls of text.

http://wikileaks.org/Transcript-Meeting-Assange-Schmidt

Post: #2

Assamge describes his (second) fundamental justification for wikieaks as this:

"The second is that in practice releasing information is positive to those engaged in acts that the public support and negative to those engaged in acts that the public does not support."

He has a flawed premise here. What happens when society is patronized (or matronized, heh) by women who want to both shame and fuck hot men? Assenge flees into hiding because HE HIMSELF WAS GUILTY OF AN ACT THE PUBLIC DID NOT SUPPORT. They got the 'creepy' vibe right after the 'cool cyberpunk' vibe wore off. Boom guilty.

ETA: here is a story of a chick 'in love' with Assange and the lengths of girl game:

JA
"The woman from Catalonia was the most amusing, so she turned up at the Frontline Club and tried to convince them that she was WikiLeaks staff, Wikileaks star Spanish programmer.

And she didn't know anything about programming, she just gave some technobabble, and they assumed it was true. And then after a while they were like uh, well you can't really go and see Julian, he's in seclusion, but ok, so, they put her up for free for one night. And she had this habit of listening in on a bit of conversation and then sort of reincorporating it into her story. And the next day: Oh I know this person, oh look there's so and so!

So within two days this had all come undone and she had been sent along. And then two weeks later there is a phone call saying oh! Sorry, two weeks later I am here, and the police come to the door, and they are saying, do you know... [XXXX]? [XXXX]? [XXXX] who?--Your fiancee!

No! no!--Well she stayed at this property all night! And she says that you are going to pay the taxi bill!

And I'm like what taxi bill? So it turns out that she had come from Catalonia, to London, got a black cab from London to here, five hundred pounds, she had fifty pounds, convinced the taxi driver that her rich famous fiancee would pay for it, it's just a bit of a dispute at the moment but it will all sort out in the morning. Then she had gone to the edge of the property, and convinced them that she was my fiancee. And the taxi driver wouldn't go because he wanted his money. The people at the edge of the property put them both up for the night.

Then she was eventually arrested for fare evasion. Because no one would pay the bill. Failed to appear on February 14, Valentine's Day...

...with bail conditions that she couldn't appear in Norfolk, so she flew back to Catalonia, so then we see on her Facebook page that she is still going on about how in love she is, and there is these terrible women that live here..


[They] prevented her - the harpies - prevented her from coming in contact with me."