Rhosty

You mention that Assange published etc.
True, but so did The Guardian, the New York Times and from memory El Pais. But I do not see anyone anywhere baying for their blood.

The fact is without the great reach of those papers, Assange would have remained a curiosity. It was their broadcasting of the cables that had the impact on the public.

Assuming he did 'wrong', surely the editors of those publications should be in the dock, don't you think?

And being a "narcissist" as you claim surely is not a crime? If it was then you can lock up 90% of the politicians in Australia's parliaments.

Hi Jonathan,

I don't think anybody on this thread has made much of this naecissist's Wikileaks activities, they have focussed on his alleged rapes.

I'll stick by my suggestions: he'll do his time in Sweden if he's guilty (eventually), and return to Britain.

Fair enough.

Joe

Virtually every journalist in the Western mainstream media is obliged to portray Assange as a self-seeking narcissist in order to (a) keep their jobs and (b) advance their careers. It's unlikely that any Western journalist will depart from the script, because if they were the type to do so, they would not be in their jobs in the first place.

None of the commenters here have ever met Julian Assange, so their opinion that he is a self-seeking narcissist has been taken entirely from Western media sources, who all unanimously claim he is a self-seeking narcissist.

As for the alternative media, both right- and left-wing sources have judged Assange entirely on the facts of the case and the totally realistic assumption that he is getting the full-blown whistleblower treatment and that he faced grave consequences had he not sought refuge in the Ecuadorian Embassy.

Unlike the Western mainstream media, the alternative media assert that he is only wanted for questioning; there is no warrant for his arrest.

Unlike the mainstream media, the alternative media has offered examples of the willingness of Swedish authorities to travel to other countries to question person's of interest and/or via video, an alternative that they have denied Assange, even though he and his legal team and Ecuadorian diplomatic personnel have repeatedly offered to do so.

Assange has pledged his full cooperation, as long as he does not run the risk of being extradited to another country - especially the US, whose mainstream media has made no secret of wanting to deal him the most extreme penalty.

Had the Western mainstream media treated Assange with even a fraction of the professionalism that was his right, this whole matter may well have been settled years ago. Now, it's become mainly a face-saving, dog-in-the-manger fight to the death by Sweden, almost certainly taking its order from Washington. The rape or non-rape of the women concerned is of absolutely no concern or interest to any of the parties involved.

A smaller and smaller number take the MSM seriously.
We might still watch listen and read it but it's entirely farcical and every broadcast and publication only further alienates us from it.
the credibility of our politicians our plutocracy is now irredeemable

Where to from here

You're deluded Killarney

Julian, by creating an organisation to entice people to leak Western secrets, has received the notoriety that his ego demands.

Governments push back.

Enjoy your Julian cheer squadding.

YEBIGA

Obviously, that 'smaller and smaller' number is not getting small enough, fast enough. Unfortunately, most people I converse with through work and social gatherings still implicitly trust virtually everything the mainstream media says.

What always gets me is that they mouth the usual platitudes that politicians and journalists lie and they seem to know deep down that all these wars and regime changes are basically unnecessary. Yet they reject any serious challenge to the good v. evil 'bigger picture' the mainstream media presents to them on a daily basis.