London's Metropolitan Police arrest Julian Assange

Julian Assange has been arrested by London cops at the Ecuadorian Embassy after the nation revoked the asylum it had given him for nearly seven years. BREAKING: #Assange removed from embassy - video pic.twitter.com/qsHy7ZVPg5 — Ruptly (@Ruptly) April 11, 2019 The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) issued a statement this …

[amanfromMars 1]

Re: Tip of the iceberg

Invading an embassy to take a prisoner, even one wanted for rape, has the potential to start an International Incident. ...... JulieM

Howdy JulieM,

It is impossible to not notice this morning the impartial BBC trying to get Sweden to make fools of themselves with a request from them to extradite him to there so home grown political cowards and wannabe armchair heroes in Blighty are let off their hooks there.

Some retarded folk just never learn from their shame and are always looking for others to blame for their seriously sub-prime game play. And aint that the gospel truth.

[SundogUK]

Re: Tip of the iceberg

"But of course, that is exactly what They want you to think ....."

So said every conspiracy theorist ever.

Cretin.

[JulieM]

Re: Tip of the iceberg

You're really not helping Their cause. If They have a cause. Whoever They are. If They exist at all.

How does someone manage to get hold of potentially world-shattering material, and then go and blow it with an indiscretion like that? If he genuinely was just a lecherous creep who couldn't keep his flies fastened for ten minutes, how did he not get busted long ago? Did all the power just go to his head and make him think he could get away with anything? He must surely have known from the outset that any public sympathy would be lost with the merest hint of any sexual impropriety. Doesn't matter if you stopped someone from pressing the Nuclear Button; if you were so much as caught wanking into a condom in a lay-by on a deserted country road at three in the morning, you'll still never be anything but a sex offender. (On the other hand, some people might prefer to be remembered for having sex with a pig's head than for selling an entire country to a bunch of carpet-baggers.) What was he even playing at, having sex with anyone at all? And why arrest him now, mere hours before the UK was about to leave the EU? (The October extension was not known about when the first moves would have had to have been made.)

But that's the difference between truth and fiction, I guess. Authors have to make fiction make sense. All the loose ends get brought together and tied up in the final chapter or scene, and you're blaming yourself for not spotting the connection much earlier rather than the author or director for deliberately leading you down the wrong path around the point in the story where they thought you might make the connection. (Or else you throw the book at the wall, or storm out of the cinema in a huff.) Real life isn't constrained to a page count or running time, and doesn't care whether or not the audience end up feeling entertained.

I suppose we're just never going to find out. Whether that is because there is nothing to find out or because of some elaborate plot to conceal the sort of unimaginable human rights abuses alongside which even sexual assault pales into insignificance, ultimately won't make a blind bit of difference anyway.

[amanfromMars 1]

Re Icebergs and TitanICQ Vessels full of Vassals

I suppose we're just never going to find out. Whether that is because there is nothing to find out or because of some elaborate plot to conceal the sort of unimaginable human rights abuses alongside which even sexual assault pales into insignificance, ultimately won't make a blind bit of difference anyway. .... Julie M

Do we have to decide whether that be hubris and ignorance or arrogance and delusion having their say, JulieM?

Hasn't it always been the case, and therefore always will be the case, that a very select few, who may or may not know exactly what to do with what is discovered and uncovered, find out, if not quite everything, certainly more than enough to make a great deal of difference.

And that is why they are so diligently sought after and extremely well paid to do probably either of two things

a) Retire into the sunset as fiat currency rich as Croesus to do virtually nothing to make a further greater deal of difference .... or

b) pick any number of conflicting sides to make them rich beyond their wildest dreams, knowing full well the value of the worth which they will pay to have discoveries and secrets keep coming their way.

However, as is usually the case in such situations, there may very well be though quite a few other obscure options too to explore that would preternaturally excite even greater interest with the simplest of seedings and feedings with crude base investments in that which would be capable of proving itself to be so disruptive and potentially catastrophically destructive to a significant number of others.

[CRConrad]

Re: "...exactly what They want you to think..."

"So said every conspiracy theorist ever."

Jules was being sarcastic, you nincompoop.

[SundogUK]

Re: Tip of the iceberg

"There is a lot here we don't know."

No, we pretty much know everything. He's a wanker who broke several laws and finally got caught.

What he did with Wikileaks is largely laudable but ultimately he's a cunt.

[SundogUK]

Re: Tip of the iceberg

For fucks sake, you even capitalized 'They.'

Fuckwit.

[CRConrad]

Yeah, that should have tipped you off.

Capitalized "They" in the X-Files-the-Truth(1)-is-out-there style sentence about "that's what they to think".

After a long post of semi-sceptical "conspiratorial" musings, *and a final paragraph of "Or maybe the simple explanation is that he's an asshat".* After all that, this single, *italicized*, ooo-wee-ooo-eee Twilight-Zone sentence.

Grow up; learn to recognize sarcasm without the over-the-top delivery, hashtags, or emoti... Uh, -jis. I totally meant to say emojis. I'm not that old!(2)

1: Yet another capital 'T'.

2: Yes I am.

[Winkypop]

Hooray!

Lock a part of him up in the UK

Another part in Sweden

And the rest in the US

Sorted.

[Aladdin Sane]

Re: Hooray!

Distributed Denial of Assange?

[Cliff Thorburn]

At least the cats safe ...

https://apple.news/ALGAKPp-JTeyYz9ULRIuP5A

At least the cats safe from any potential Pussy Grabbers !