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Open Thread – Anarchy in the UK

At this point the only thing that we haven’t seen is Colin Powell and Hillary Clinton announcing that weapons of mass destruction have been found at the Ecuador embassy. Only then will the farce be truly complete. —Tyler Durden

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has made his first public appearance in two months, from his asylum within the Ecuadorian embassy in London:

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8 Responses to “Open Thread – Anarchy in the UK”
  1. mike from iowa says:

    About four months ago.a fourteen year old Primghar,Iowa youth took his own life and it made news all around America. Kenneth Weishun Jr told his classmates he was gay and was bullied by friends in school and on line. A police report obtained by the Sioux City Journal said KJ suffered from mental illness. His mother spent most of Kj’s life behind bars ,serving a federal sentence for conspiracy to manufacture and distribute meth. She had returned home just a few months before this tragedy and was still doing rehab trying to become a better mother.
    Unfortunately,the bullying doesn’t end with the end of his young life. The official Obrien County Sheriff’s report and much local sentiment put the blame essentially on the victim and his less than ideal family. Yesterday,after the Journal ran an editorial about how everyone is partly to blame for bullying,the shit hit the fan in the editorial pages. The visceral hate spewed by some so called christians towards this young victim was totally uncalled for and un-American and unnecessary and un-everything else you care to name it. So those of us who post regularly there have a week to cool off. Comments are banned for a week and after that I certainly hope the mods,who wouldn’t allow me to call Dick Cheney,Dick, will be in control. Anybody know what possesses some freaking morons to savage gays even when they no longer can defend themselves? Isn’t this sort of shit what this youngster was trying to escape from to begin with?

    • Alaska Pi says:

      Mikey- I went and found the opinion piece and read some of the stories at that paper.
      I cannot speak for that situation nor the horror that young man lived with but I can speak some to the nastiness routine in general.
      If that piece of society which deems itself rill and good can find anything, I mean ANYthing to attach blame to so it does not have to do any soul searching about how we act in general towards each other it will do so.
      I am thinking of 6 murders which have touched my life ( touch is the wrong word really- kicked the ever livin **** out of me ), the latest being my beloved nephew . Public reaction astonished me in every case, just as the still horsepunky and too prevalent attitudes about “legitimate rape ” do.
      First there was surprise and some offering of condolences and all. Next came the dissection of the small amount of public information and the beginning of blaming the victim- whether it was as simple as “you don’t go to that neighborhood at night” or as convoluted as blaming (dead in one case ) parents for kids who should know better.
      It would get worse everyday which passed until that type of dimwit managed to convince themselves they were safe from such an end because they never did anything which would get them in that situation AND that society didn’t have to do anything either because “good” people in general never did things like jog alone as a woman. The selfish SOBs just want to make their own lil world ok from fear- even if they have to ignore vast swaths of humanity to do so. Period.

      That poor child. I think it is worse for LGBT teens in so many, many ways.
      Bless his memory and hoping we can break through that wall of ignorance which bullies, ignores, and harms humanity’s most precious resource- our young folks.

  2. mike from iowa says:

    On gradiose rethuglican vebiage-if you have nothing to hide,you shouldn’t mind your government sifting through every aspect of your personal lives. Right back atcha,gov’t. You shouldn’t be allowed any secrets from the PEOPLE you are supposed to be working for.

  3. HoboJohn says:

    Given the war crimes he revealed, he must be clever to not be caged like an animal in GITMO or dead.

  4. beth. says:

    I love that he’s asked the US to drop charges against him re: WikiLeaks…yeah, like that’s going to happen. Does he have even an itsy-bitsy inkling of *why* the US govt is a tad miffed at him?

    The man is truly working with a different reality than most, I think.

    He may be a GOTPer in ‘clever’ disguise as an Englishman.

    With a bad haircut.

    And grandiose thought. beth.

    • Lani says:

      Actually, he’s an Aussie with no desire to be an Englishman.

    • Mo says:

      Has anyone, anywhere, tracked and verified that any actual harm was done by the Wikileaks release? Other than a few minor diplomatic embarrassments at being caught out in frank assessments of personalities?

      So far the only one who seems to be suffering is Bradley Manning, everyone else is back happily pursuing their diplomatic day jobs.

      • Zyxomma says:

        Poor Bradley Manning. He’s MY size, way too small to be a soldier. Even at the height of my powers (and for my diminutive size, I’m very strong) I’d never have enlisted. I agree with JA that the war on whistleblowers must end. As a holistic health educator, I’m horrified by revelations that the US government has been spying on FDA scientists! Beth, I don’t see what you mean about a bad haircut; it looks fine to me. Free Pussy Riot! Thanks for posting, admin.