The departure of Salma Yaqoob and the withdrawal as a candidate by Kate Hudson may well mark the end of Respect. The Galloway hate-mongers seem to think the story is all about George Galloway. Galloway is “a sham”, Liberal Conspiracy has it, and Respect is a Galloway “ego-proxy” says Labour Uncut. George Galloway, warts and all, has played a big part in Respect’s ups and downs, but I’d argue that making him the story obscures the truth about the future of Respect as it did about the attack on Wikileaks and how to respond to the rape accusations against Julian Assange. Continue reading
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Assange: no superhero
Julian Assange. I won’t say that I don’t think the work he did with WikiLeaks was totally awesome and incredibly important, yet as I’ve argued before, I have many reservations towards Assange the person – or rather the persona he projects to the world.
Possibly this is because I was slightly underwhelmed when I saw him speak at a curious debate on whistle blowers organized by the New Statesman in Kensington Town Hall back in April 2011.
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Assange and the left’s messiah complex
The case of Julian Assange has become something of a pantomime; frankly, the notion of the SAS storming Ecuador’s Embassy is almost as comical as it is tragic. If Ecuador is prepared to taint itself by keeping Assange fattened and atop his pulpit at its own taxpayers expense then more fool it. Certainly, I wouldn’t want see British taxpayers money spent on this feeding the already giant ego of Julian Assange.
I am totally sure his overbearing narcissism is having a whale of a time as it is; this is something every ego-maniac has vivid and semi-erotic dreams about. For the record, what I have heard of the charges against Assange they seem suspect, but I am beginning to think it’s less likely the US government are behind them and more likely the man himself is. After-all, even Wikileaks itself couldn’t have generated this much publicity if it had leaked the combined contents of the Royal Families closely-guarded bed-side diary’s. Continue reading
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Frost interviews Assange lawyer
Julian Assange’s lawyer Mark Stephens is interviewed by Sir David Frost on Al Jazeera.
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Innocent until proven guilty: Assange deserves our (conditional) support
A number of feminist and left bloggers have urged caution about the charges of sexual assault — the description is itself contentious — against Julian Assange, arguing rightly that, though he may be a hero for what he has done as founder of Wikileaks, there may be other actions and other aspects of his character for which he should be held to account. He will now have to answer the serious accusations that have been made by two Swedish women, AA and SW (whose names are widely used on the internet). In this matter he should be treated as innocent until proven guilty, and even if it turns out that he is guilty, Wikileaks is not. In the meantime, he deserves our support. Continue reading
