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British Judge

= Magistrate, I think.

Oh aren't they fucking fancy! Just because they invented modern law, they think they can name things however they fucking want.

Plus, wigs!!!

And some of the fellows wearing wigs have a full head of hair underneath.

How stupid is that?

All I know about British courts I learned from teh one ep of Law and Order UK I have seen and that ep of Rumpole of the Bailey the Girl's grandma got me to watch once.

What I learned was that you can't have a lawyer with sex appeal if they're in a powdered wig...

An interesting article on the whole Wikileaks deal

I can't say I agree with everything this guy says, but he brings up good points about how having individuality requires some measure of privacy and, because of that, we can't have the completely transparent society Assange is supposedly trying to accomplish.

Personally, I think Assange is just trying to make us look bad when, in all reality, he didn't make us look any worse than we did before. He didn't reveal anything truly secret, he didn't change very many people's thoughts or feelings about the US. What he did was make it nearly impossible for US diplomats to do their jobs. For no other reason but to fuck with the US. Honestly, I truly dislike people who are jerks just for the sake of it while pretending it's for some 'greater good.'

For the record, I don't believe he's guilty of rape so much as, again, being a jerk. Unless those girls got him to say he'd use a condom and then he refused. In which case he should just take his "lumps" and get it over with; he has much bigger problems to worry about at the moment, I'd think.

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If Assange had been an American, you cunts would've named a street after him and gotten him on the lecture circuit by now.

And oh by the way, if Assange were an American, he'd be in American custody right now. Maybe he could look out during yard time and see his street sign.

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What he did was make it nearly impossible for US diplomats to do their jobs.

If what we saw in those cables is their jobs, they need fired. And the U.S. Government was offered complete control over redaction (within reason, we have to assume). They turned it down, probably to safeguard their ability to pursue a prosecution that will never happen anyway. So they would rather take the chance that something harmful be released than appear to cooperate with Wikileaks.

Goddamned stupidity. For that volume of information to be leaked, their data security had to be a great big joke -- not markedly different than just releasing it themselves.

As always, no one gets fired. No one ever gets fired.

Apple drops Wikileaks apps, Android keeps them

Good on Google.

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Originally posted by Trogdor:

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What he did was make it nearly impossible for US diplomats to do their jobs.

If what we saw in those cables is their jobs, they need fired. And the U.S. Government was offered complete control over redaction (within reason, we have to assume). They turned it down, probably to safeguard their ability to pursue a prosecution that will never happen anyway. So they would rather take the chance that something harmful be released than appear to cooperate with Wikileaks.

Goddamned stupidity. For that volume of information to be leaked, their data security had to be a great big joke -- not markedly different than just releasing it themselves.

As always, no one gets fired. No one ever gets fired.

Based on the security measures in my office, I am stunned that someone was able to download all those documents without being caught. Our USB outlets are all disabled, and our CD-ROM drives are all read-only. So, either Wikileaks got the documents from someone other than that kid, or whoever runs that unit's network is just as culpable as he who downloaded it.

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or whoever runs that unit's network is just as culpable as he who downloaded it.

Exactly. But is anyone in the news media even asking about that? Like, hey Obama, you ever going to fire anyone? Anyone?

In other Wikileaks related news, leaked documents confirm my long held suspicion that the "War on Drugs®" is a fucken farce, a ruse.

Nixon, Ford, Regan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama and every "Leader" that doesn't disband the DEA is an enemy of the state. They declared war on us in order to blackmail the world, and I, for one, am very bitter about it.

Lied to all my life. Their declarations, their taxation, their legislation and governance... NONE OF IT WAS EVER NEEDED. lazy fuckers too stupid to take care of their side of the street have enabled these VAMPIRES to suck the life out of a once vibrant country, and all of it's neighbors.

When is this shit going to end?

THEY HAVE BEEN WAGING WAR ON US, THEIR OWN CONSTITUANTS, FOR DECADES!!! We just bend over and spread our cheeks, while they stick it in and break it off.

I pay taxes, and that means I have:

Hired killers in a fake war,
funded the destruction of my own country,
segregated minority communities,
ruined the environment in the name of the almighty dollar,

and really, fucked myself in the ass.

These bastards will fall, and when they do I hope there is someone waiting to soak their broken bodies in gasoline and toss a lit match at their shrivelled, writhing, soon-to-be corpses.

HAVE I MADE IT CLEAR THAT I AM DISGUSTED?

These assclowns wrote the book that "Al Queda" (if there is such an organization) calls all their plays from, and then sold it to them along with a compliant translator.

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HAVE I MADE IT CLEAR THAT I AM DISGUSTED?

Yes. And I agree.

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Nixon, Ford, Regan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama and every "Leader" that doesn't disband the DEA is an enemy of the state. They declared war on us in order to blackmail the world, and I, for one, am very bitter about it.

A fucking men!

Detention (prisons) has become a huge private industry with a very powerful and well-funded lobby in DC and every Statehouse. The two primary interest of that lobby? Drug laws and immigration law. With both of these, even so-called liberal politicians feel safe in accepting money from these creeps and voting conservatively.

Fucking monsters.

Prison "industry" is our #1 growth industry.

Why do we put up with this?
Why do we fund it?

It is a "Gulag Archipelago" that would shame even Stalin.

We (and I mean that in the most general way) put up with it because, unless we know someone in prison, it doesn't have any effect on our everyday lives. Not to mention that it makes us feel good to vote for politicians who are 'tough on crime.'

Even the Russians revolted, eventually. Are we so lazy that we'll accept enslavement as long as there's reality tv? 'Cause if that's the case... nothing matters.

On that topic, Obama made news today for calling the owner of the eagles about, among other things, being good about hiring an ex convict. Michael Vick is who he was talking about, noting that when people are released from prison it is nearly impossible for them to get legitimate work at pays enough to raise a family.

that ain't the Eagles being good; it's being smart.

convicts (skilled or unskilled, in any sort of labour pool) are a dime a dozen, easily replaceable and with more trustworthy units.
starting QBs in the NFL aren't all that replaceable. they probably paid him a fraction of what he made before prison and now he's got the eagles on top of the NFC east.

that's just good management, not altruism.

The Swiss are playing a weird game here...

This is all taking on some obtuse dimensions.

Yeah... those nukes we were all worried about North Korea and Iran gettin?

We sold them to them.