WikiLeaks 'will continue releasing documents'

[sabra]

Source: UK telegraph

WikiLeaks has pledged to continue releasing confidential documents after Julian Assange, the website's founder and chief, arrived at court for an extradition hearing.

Mr Assange handed himself over to police in central London on Tuesday morning after a warrant was issued for his arrest on rape charges.

But ahead of his first court appearance a spokesman for the website insisted the arrest would not prevent the planned release of further cables on Tuesday evening.

The spokesman wrote on Twitter: "Today's actions against our editor-in-chief Julian Assange won't affect our operations: we will release more cables tonight as normal."

The 39-year-old Australian was due to appear before a district judge at City of Westminster Magistrates' Court on Tuesday afternoon, where his lawyers were expected to fight extradition proceedings.

Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8186573/WikiLeaks-will-continue-releasing-documents.html

[Uncle Joe]

1. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, sabra.

[Dinger]

24. Same Here (nt)

[SpiralHawk]

2. Dump it! K and r.

Screw the corrupt CorporOmedia. Dump the info onto the net.

[Xenotime]

3. How?

[Javaman]

36. You think he's the only one who works for wikileaks? nt

[indimuse]

4. KNR! n/t

[Judi Lynn]

5. Good, good, good. He knows good people are waiting for it, too.

I hope powers that be realize the way they conduct themselves over this will mold people's perception of them for decades to come.

It's better they show a little restraint, if they can manage it.

Recommending.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

6. Keep it coming, Julian!

:applause:

[FamousBlueRaincoat]

7. Assange is just a figurehead

A pretty good figurehead, as far as coming off as pretty intelligent and sincerely believing in his cause.

But it seems to me that wikileaks is an organization, not just one person. So despite the fact that I wish Julian Assange the best on a personal level, it has been rather funny watching all the nations of the world go after him like one person is going to change anything. Like heads of organization don't change all of the time.

It's about the paradigm shift. And the paradigm has already begun to be shifted. Wikileaks will go on. And if they don't, they have proved what's possible. As long as there are people out there who are willing to be attacked for telling the truth - this can be the way of the world from now on. Truth now has a role in reality. Game over.

[ixion]

8. And their outcry made wikileaks a household name

which means they're more important now than they ever were before.

[Kaleko]

9. I would say Wikileaks is not so much an organisation as a massive soul movement.

The movement of the collective soul to rid itself of the corruption that is oppressing its free flow, its unobstructed exchange of information.

We're entering the information age for real now, folks.

[GliderGuider]

29. Rock on! You got it!

I'm starting to think this chain of events has a lot in common with that first small breach in the Berlin Wall...

[Kaleko]

31. We're flying at the same altitude, Glider.

The view from here is magnificent, even inspiring, despite the fact that the little personal me down on the ground sometimes gets terrified of what's coming... that big old spirit crusher that is just around the corner.

[Javaman]

37. There is certainly a very fascinating element regarding the concept of wikileaks...

Not associating wikileaks with a terrorist organization but more associating wikileaks with a none nation sort of status.

al queada is a non-nation organization. They have various lose affiliations with other organizations around the globe and have a network of sorts to maintain their reach.

Wikileaks is an entirely different animal. Much like wikipedia, it there is technically speaking no central person. As much as the US wishes to make Assange that person, he's basically nothing more than its spokesperson. There is no affiliation, no network per say. It's more like a collective brain.

Trying to nail down wikileaks will be like trying to nail down jello.

And if wikileaks is taken down, others will rise up. Yet another metaphor, like smashing mercury with a hammer.

It is a very fascinating concept in sociology.

[tcaudilllg]

15. Assange's role is important.

Assange is the org's GWB figure: the guy who unites people on basis of friendship and common cause. He's the guy who gives his all to keeping the squabbles from breaking out, keeping the group focused. Without Assange, they would need a new such figure or the group would fall apart.

[GliderGuider]

30. Well, we'll see won't we?

Somehow I doubt it, though. Some movements take on a life of their own - like the fall of Romania or the Berlin Wall.

I don't think this event is about Wikileaks per se, anymore than Wikileaks was about the contents of the cables.

[earcandle]

16. Yeah!

[yodermon]

28. it's to wikileaks benefit that TBTB are making this an ad hominem attack

the mechanism will chug merrily along, and they're benefiting from extra publicity.

[bemildred]

34. Assange is probably the only guy that could order the leaks to stop and get listened to.

Even then it would not be a slam dunk.

[TBF]

10. Free Julian! nt

[midnight]

21. Yes... Why won't they let him out on bail?

[EFerrari]

11. K&R

[fascisthunter]

12. I Hope this issue Gets More Attention

people need to know for a fact they are not free in this country or anywhere on this planet. The wealthy class and corporations run it... that's why everything is so fucked up. A real democracy is a check and balance on people gaining too much power.

[me b zola]

13. K&R

[Luciferous]

14. Good for them. I can't wait to see what they have on the banks!

[snappyturtle]

17. YES! Can't wait to read what Wikileaks releases next!! I love seeing

people who are so arrogant as to suppose their behind closed doors conversations won't come to light, exposed for the global population to see! The world will be better for it.....time to clear away the scum that's been using populations for THEIR purposes!

[katty]

18. I'm sure- and may release alot more!

[florida08]

19. the judge has denied him bail

"This will not change our operation," spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson told The Associated Press. As if to underline the point, WikiLeaks released a dozen new diplomatic cables, its first publication in more than 24 hours, including the details of a NATO defense plan for Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania that prompted an indignant response from the Russian envoy to the alliance.

Meanwhile, Stephens said he would reapply for bail, noting that several prominent Britons — including socialite Jemima Khan and filmmaker Ken Loach — had each offered to pay 20,000 pounds ($31,500) as surety so Assange could go free.


So now they've got him..but it hasn't stopped the leak. If you read some of the allegations it sounds so much like the Clinton era. Using sexual allegations to bring him and the democrats down in his second term.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/wikileaks

[Amonester]

22. Go Kristinn! Time to unlock that "thermo-nucleus" encrypted key...

The member$ of the New fascist league have no clue what they've unleashed...

:bounce:

[florida08]

27. lol..yay!!

[emilyg]

20. k/r

I wish we could help him.

[myrna minx]

23. K&R n/t

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

25. K & R ++++ n/t

[midnight]

26. Sending good thoughts to keep this young man safe...

[polly7]

32. Adding mine ........... I'm beyond sad at what they're putting him and his family through,

and what he may face if he's brought over to NA.

[Catherina]

33. Rock on Wikileaks! You're world heroes n/t

[goforit]

35. Lieberman will be crying ing his milk and cookies.