Gotta Admit... I'm Pretty Baffled By The Split And Depth Of Feeling Re:The Assange/WikiLeaks Story

[GliderGuider]

287. You realize this has nothing to do with rape, right?

It's all about Assange's threat to expose BoA. That's when the shit hit the fan.

Wikileaks was launched in 2006. Little happened to the organization or Assange for the next 4 years, despite releasing vast volumes (2 million or more) of embarrassing diplomatic traffic.

Then in early 2010 Assange revealed that Wikileaks had a bank executive's hard drive, later confirmed to be from BoA.

And my, how things changed...

Aug 2010: Arrest warrant for Assange issued in Sweden , but dropped a day later, then reinstated a week and a half later.
Oct 2010: Daniel Domscheit-Berg defects and subsequently deletes the BoA files he stole from the Wikileaks server.
Dec 2010: Second Swedish arrest warrant issued for Assange;
Dec 2010: Wikileaks web site is shut down, and its financial conduits are closed.
Feb 2011: Anonymous hacked HBGary's servers. The resulting email dump revealed BoA's hiring of HBGary to being down Wikileaks.

And we all know what's happened since then.

All this fuss and drama about war crimes and rape, when all along it was about the money.

That's the way the system works - throw up a smokescreen and have a bunch of willing dupes (paid disinformants? useful idiots? naive? single-issue people who are invested in rape or security issues? Probably a combination of all of them) ready to blow the smoke around, to obscure the actual movement of the troops.

It's not about rape.
It's not about war crimes.
It's not about diplomatic embarrassment.

It's about money.
It's always about money.