Assange on crushing "bastard" Afghani informants UPDATED

Controversy has bubbled up around the outrageous Wikileaks dump of thousands of documents about the ongoing war against murderous militants. Now Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, is claiming that he gave the documents to the White House two weeks ago, asking if there were anyone who would be harmed by the document dump. He says they did not respond. THEY say they learned about it through the news. Clearly someone is lying. It's difficult to know whom to believe in this situation since the first is obviously a narcissistic glory monger who selfishly wants attention for his little project and the second is, well, the same, but has an unfortunate tendency to lie, lie, lie. Here's Assange's self-serving statement, who seems to take great pleasure in making others' lives miserable and only he gets to determine who exactly is a bastard and who isn't. Here Assange is quoted in Der Spiegel:

Assange: We all only live once. So we are obligated to make good use of the time that we have, and to do something that is meaningful and satisfying. This is something that I find meaningful and satisfying. That is my temperament. I enjoy creating systems on a grand scale, and I enjoy helping people who are vulnerable. And I enjoy crushing bastards. So it is enjoyable work.

This is a pretty sad situation. What irony that a so-called benevolent liberal is willing to sacrifice the lives of American and NATO soldiers and those brave Afghani souls who only want a better life for themselves through assisting the troops who are there to root out the violent hateful Taliban and al qaeda. Over at The Australian:

The Times revealed that the names, villages, relatives' names and even precise GPS locations of Afghans co-operating with Nato forces could be accessed easily from files released by WikiLeaks.

Human rights groups criticised the internet site and one US politician said that the security breaches amounted to a ready-made Taliban hitlist.

And yet Assange blithely defends his execrable actions by saying, "Oh, SORRY if anyone was hurt."

he insisted that any risk to informants' lives was outweighed by the overall importance of publishing the information.

Mr Assange said: "No one has been harmed, but should anyone come to harm of course that would be a matter of deep regret - our goal is justice to innocents, not to harm them. That said, if we were forced into a position of publishing all of the archives or none of the archives we would publish all of the archives because it's extremely important to the history of this war." 

It's difficult to know whom to believe when everybody lies and nobody seems to have any sense of concern about the welfare of mankind....and the "small people."
  And this from the Daily Beast:

If Hollywood were ever to make a film about a nihilistic leaker-hacker dude, a rootless subverter of international public order, they couldn’t do better than to cast Julian Assange as himself.

With his bloodless, sallow face, his lank hair drained of all color, his languorous, very un-Australian limbs, and his aura of blinding pallor that appears to admit no nuance, Assange looks every inch the amoral, uber-nerd villain, icily detached from the real world of moral choices in which the rest of us saps live. Call him the Unaleaker, with apologies to the victims of Ted Kaczynski.

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