The Web is not Enough

n_dude says:

12:30pm | 17/08/12

No Roger Moore is

ronny jonny says:

04:02pm | 16/08/12

With a little bit of Julia and perhaps a dash of Penny Wong.

Jay says:

10:16pm | 16/08/12

Of course. Who gives a stuff about the women’s perspective? Julian is the victim here. It says so on the Internet.

Helen says:

10:36am | 17/08/12

Ummmm, how does a woman not realise he isnt wearing a condom? And I dont understand Sweden’s laws re this - it takes two to tango, and it doesnt have to be up the man to provide the protection. If he doesnt have protection, and she is so concerned about HIV, pregnancy, STDs, there is that little word “no”. Or have I missed something here?

Kevin says:

05:02pm | 16/08/12

You must work for the govt or you’re completely without intellegence, since you have absolutely no regard for the loss of freedoms and the decline in democracy around the world. This is not about Assange, it’s about government secrecy - mainly the US - they engage in lawless killing of innocent people around the world in their push to be the biggest bully and control all the oil. Assange simply leveraged an anonymous media platform which leakers could utilise to inform the people of what their govts are hiding and secretly planning. It’s obvious that Assange won’t be able to leave the UK but the information war will continue against all governments regardless of Assange’s fate. I just hope he doesn’t get into the hands of the US terrorists (sorry, government)!

ABC says:

07:59pm | 16/08/12

You shouldn’t be talking about intelligence if you cannot spell it.

thatmosis says:

08:07am | 17/08/12

They do not now have to storm the embassy as they can now just wait until he gets sick and tired of sitting on his arse doing nothing for the rest of his life. I’m wondering how long it is before the Poms block internet access to the embassy to stop this clown promoting himself. Sorry just a technical glitch.
  He has shown himself for what he really is a self opinionated clown who cant or wont take responsibility for his actions and unfortunately he is Australian. I hope that he is taken eventually by the US and tried as he should be and good riddance to bad rubbish.
ABC, looking at the people who are supporting him the spelling of one word seems the least of their problems. I would like to know what the people who paid his bail now think of him now that they have lost that money?

I hate pies says:

08:24am | 17/08/12

The government are entitled to secrecy - you don’t need to know everything. Who on this earth tells everyone they know absolutely everything? Any Assange supporters who don’t are hypocrites.

MarkS says:

08:56am | 17/08/12

@ABC
Why? Spelling & Intelligence are not directly related. Spelling Pissant.

Mark says:

09:21am | 17/08/12

I like to imagine what would happen if Ecuador got a helicopter to land on the top of the embassy- would the UK shoot it down? Could be the beginning of the end

Troy Flynn says:

04:01pm | 17/08/12

@Mark. That was my thought for an option too. Let’s face it. If they did storm the embassy, it would be considered an act of war, even more so it they shot down a diplomatic helicopter. I’m sure a lot of South American countries would side with Ecuador. Argentina would be a likely candidate as they still want the Falklands back. Columbia and Venezuela would likely support them against Britain too.

Matchofbris says:

04:37pm | 16/08/12

ROFL, can you bung an Aussie accent as much as you did a South African/Rhodesian accent, dear DeCaffe-prio?

sunny says:

06:05pm | 16/08/12

Welcome to the club DJ. You’re membership number is 0015.

GYTIC says:

06:29pm | 16/08/12

Sorry man, I have slightly better things to do then appraise the obvious satirical style or attempt to disect the motivation for posting this article in the first place. Most replies are based on the level of effort put into this article and whilst I appreciate the glib humor made by the author, I DO NOT APPRECIATE the ridicule of my boy, Daniel Craig.

Good day, dumbass #15,

Sincerely,

Dumbass #13, fan of daniel craig.

Mike says:

10:17pm | 16/08/12

No, it counts as an opinion.

ABC says:

08:01pm | 16/08/12

All Julian Assange is doing is promoting a vitriolic anti-US stance.  His stated aim (have a look at any interview he’s ever don) is to contribute to the destabilisation of the US government.  The guy is a hack.  Dressing it up in freedom of speech should not take away from this.

Warrenz says:

09:08pm | 16/08/12

I challenge you to name one of their great services to mankind.  You probably can’t.  Then think of the potential harm his leaks will have on informers doing great work to protect our freedom.  Assange and his money hungry cohorts wouldn’t blink an eye if they, for example, had confidential police files on Bikie gangs. They’d sell them to the highest bidder and undo years of painstaking work.  There are just some things we don’t need to know.  I hope he rots in that Ecaudorian “prison”.

Obviously says:

09:55am | 17/08/12

@ Warrenz - um the internet to start with.
Providing safe harbour for Albert Einstein number 2 (given he might have gone elsewhere is the US wasn’t available, but in the end he went there).
Actually come to think of it a number of really good and helpful ideas and inventions have come out of the USA.  Given that they might not always have beneficial effects, they can at times both in the past and present and dare I say future have beneficial things come out of them.  Just because 1 man (and a hack as well as a criminal (yes a criminal because he steals and deals in stole information - ie how would you like it is all of your dirty laundry was put on display for the whole world to see?) sees it differently doesn’t mean nothing good has come out of the country.  There have been many terrible things come out of Australia (JA for 1) does this mean we are a terible nation which should have ALL it’s secrets made public?

Simon says:

06:58pm | 16/08/12

I have thought of a solution for you…

Andrew says:

10:41pm | 16/08/12

You would think supporters of someone so big on freedom of speech and infomation would have a bit more sense of humor wouldnt you. Funny your sorry to live in a world with the above comments, but your happy to live in a world were someone who is accused of rape doesnt have to answer the charge, happy to live in a world were someone thinks it important that we know everything about everything but the same person can refuse to answer questions about his own life. Its good to see that it isnt only Assange that is a hyprocritical a%$#@#$% but most of his supporters as well

fml says:

08:31am | 17/08/12

Andrew,

As long as you can garauntee he wont be extradited to the U.S. the swedes can have him.

Stephen says:

08:40am | 17/08/12

I’m surprised they didn’t just poisen him or blow up his car like the Brits did to Princess Di. (yes the Brits did need her gone)

He’s a dumb ass either way you don’t piss off the biggest dog in the yard and not expect to get bitten hard.  He should of moved to Russia permanently instead of flying around Europe getting his end away.

GYTIC says:

03:35pm | 17/08/12

Your bias is unbelievable.

I’m not going to take the time to deconstruct your argument because it’s entirely full of emotional fallacies but I will say that the attention of the world’s media has granted Assange a victory for his own goals, being that many people now know of and have searched for wikileaks.

Intelligent enough people would sift through the information he’s released and find out revelations and insights into the way the world actually works. I suggest you do the same and prepare to have your closed-minded perspective changed.

Peter says:

12:20pm | 17/08/12

I agree Lee. It’s funny how he insists that everyone be accountable for their past actions except himself.

Noely says:

01:39pm | 17/08/12

I agree.  Personally the guy seems an egomaniac to me, BUT, having said that, we don’t have human rights just for ‘likeable’ people.  The facts that we do know are, he is being accused of rape, but, no yet charged and the Swedish are going to bizairre lengths to get him to Sweden, when in fact as per Interpol protocol, they could have have just interviewed him in a british police station?  The other bizaire thing is how the Swedes have been asked numerous times to guarantee they will not extradite him to a 3rd country if he does got to Sweden to face questioning and they will not do that?  Why?  If there is no deal in place in the US, how hard can it be to guarantee that?  Sorry, but something here is really really suss, a few Swedish papers are actually questioning this themselves, talking about the unprecedented steps the authorities are taking with Assange?  The guy may not be likeable and what he has done may not be as wonderful as he himself believes, BUT at the end of the day, he deserves the same human rights as the rest of us, and I am pretty ashamed of our Government that he had to go to another Countries embassy for refuge :(