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Sex, leaks and cables
The bespectacled, straw-haired mild-looking gentleman has turned out to a guy with nerves of steel when it came to taking on the powers that be, refusing to express regret for embarrassing the US government by leaking reams after reams of classified cables, which exposed among other things, the rather poor opinion that top American policy makers had about some of the world' most powerful political leaders.
We don't know what behind the scene negotiations took place or are taking place even now but the fact is that the internet's biggest hero of recent times, he that inspired other brave men and women to participate in an exercise that revealed some very well concealed governmental secrets of the US government, is now on bail after being sent to jail.
Julian Assange's incarceration has outraged his supporters, many of who plotted the last three days and wrought havoc, hacking websites such as PayPal and Master Card who incurred their wrath for putting a spoke in funding the flow of news for WikiLeaks.
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“The law is not what, not simply what powerful people would want others to believe it is. The law is not what a general says it is. The law is not what Hillary Clinton says it is,” Assange said only last week, calling for US secretary of State, Hillary Clinton's resignation for encouraging international espionage. And that is the essence of this man's mission with WikiLeaks - bringing out to the common man the truth behind what powerful governments do behind the scenes, as opposed to their public posturing.
In doing so, he has rubbed up many a government the wrong way, raised the hackles of heavy-weight politicians and enraged them for his apparent lack of reverence for the high and the mighty. They have hunted him down with the most effective weapon that they could find after their bullying failed to silence him - he is in jail not for his hand in the leaks but on counts of sexual misdemeanor!
Only time will tell what fate awaits this man, who his father says, had a strong sense of right and wrong even as a little kid. But we think it won't be easy for any government to overlook the outpouring of love for Assange and they will have to treat him with kid gloves for now…..
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