Posted on 10/16/2016 11:13:56 PM PDT by NYRepublican72
Julian Assange's internet link has been intentionally severed by a state party. We have activated the appropriate contingency plans.
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/787889195507417088
Not on a bet ;o)
Lol. Got me wondering!
Oh well. Lots I ain’t ever gonna know or understand in life. I’m getting pretty used to it at this point.
Anyway, I got a good tune added to my playlists on YT tonight, so I got that going for me! :)
Nah... still says he's in London -
Yep, totally confused now.
Throwing one your way!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKeDcF1v_Y4
Right. Hadn’t thought about that.
Good find.
If true, then the Armed Forces of the United States have silenced a foreign journalist because of the pertinence of his content to the American election.
Can anyone think of this having ever happened before?
I believe it is everyone's duty to protect confidential and proprietary information from being stolen - whether by hacking, or by the traditional means used to steal Trump's tax return and the Access Hollywood tape. But silencing journalists is a move of a different species.
He’s in Italy today. But, yes he was in Britain yesterday.
In London you can get a cheap smart phone with 10 gigs at Tesco. Send a friend.
But Correa will be pisses if ‘someone’ cut his internet.
Why would you post this?
The democrats keep reminding me of the Federalist Party’s ‘Sedition Acts’.
The Federalists were also very thuggish. They sent out goons to kill, terrorize, and vandalize printing presses and their shops. Federalists in law enforcement arrested printing press owners innapropriately. All manner of dirty tricks. The Nazis might have studied their methods for all I know.
Oh come on. Why not? This is, after all, THE BEST ELECTION EVER!
I HAVE TO admit i’m not knowledgable on the subject.
WOULD skerry and obummer shut an entire embassy down and have the Brits cordon off the area?
I saw a live feed and it didn’t seem that way.
But why would wikileaks post this? Unless THEY were hacked
I’m sure this will strengthen the public trust. These political parties need to be destroyed. Using govt resources to protect Clinton campaign.
> If he does get arrested,
If he does get arrested, then killing him would not look good. So I am convinced he won’t be arrested...just assassinated.
There are at least two reasons for the State to arrest someone. To seek justice or to create a political spectacle. Arresting a serial killer is an example of seeking justice. Arresting a young Adolf Hitler is an example of political spectacle. That arrest made Hitler who he turned out to be. No arrest, no spectacle, no Third Reich.
Sure Julian has violated a slew of laws. But none of those laws is worth the embarrassment that might ensue from a public trial. This is probably why Ecuador hasn’t been arm-twisted into releasing him. Trust me, if the government wanted him poor little Ecuador would be twisted around like Judo dummy. He isn’t worth the trouble and he has his value, like now.
When intelligence groups need to reach a large audience with perfectly laundered stories, they will dump them on him and he will dutifully publish them. The more outrageous the more people will believe them.
The problem with any intelligence is its provenance; where it originates.
If somebody wanted Julian dead all they’d have to do is send him documents allegedly hacked from Putin, or the Ayatollah. He wouldn’t live a month if he published them.
Of course he isn’t dumb enough to publish anything that might get him killed or really rile the US.
“Please, Mr Trump, talk about Hillary’s record of authoritarian brutality at the next debate.”
How did Hillary achieve all of this authority? Is she just a frontman for power behind the throne and the media.
This election, by the way, is Trump versus the Media.
He may have wide range of clientele who value his role. Two mutually hostile groups may use him as useful conduit. So if one of them wants to take him down, the other may feel that it would be in their interest to protect him. He has to keep some balancing act, by trying not to appear to overtly take side.
He may not have started out this way, but along the way, some survival strategy of his own could develop. Anyway he is playing very useful role now. Nobody is perfect and everybody has their own agenda which may temporarily coincide with somebody else, who in different circumstances would be his enemies.
I don't think anybody is perfectly in control of him to serve their agenda. He may not be really in anybody's pocket. Spooks may want to use him, but not from one side. Spooks from mutually hostile countries.
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