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Julian Assange: Enemy of the State and Robin Hood of International Diplomacy

When does freedom of speech and information become detrimental to it's core foundation- freedom?

As Assange remains holed up in the  Ecuadorian embassy in London seeking political asylum with Scotland Yard poised to arrest him the minute he sets foot outside,  I revist my 2010 write- up on Julian Assange.

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"The west has fiscalised its basic power relationships through a web of contracts, loans, shareholdings, bank holdings and so on. In such an environment it is easy for speech to be "free" because a change in political will rarely leads to any change in these basic instruments. Western speech, as something that rarely has any effect on power, is, like badgers and birds, free. In states like China, there is pervasive censorship, because speech still has power and power is scared of it. We should always look at censorship as an economic signal that reveals the potential power of speech in that jurisdiction. The attacks against us by the US point to a great hope, speech powerful enough to break the fiscal blockade" Julian Assange.Dec 2010.

WikiLeaks have been the icing on plain sponge cake diplomatic relations the world over.Julian Assange, a man with a rather un-usual  surname for a Caucasian Australian has been dubbed various names by international media outlets; The Scarlet Pimpernel of Cyber space(The Telegraph), International Trafficker(The New Yorker), to name a few.

Assange has just about ruffled every feather on planet earth from the Pentagon, The Scientology sect Religion, to bungling bumbling African Kleptocrats.Only the feathers of the Ostriches on the Great Savannah plains remain untouch.

Currently Assange has no country of residential abode and fleets incessantly between European & African countries; his native Australia having spurned him as the devil child in favour of working hand in hand with American authorities to stem & curb the flow of such political evil emanating from the entrails of Assange. Sweden temporary offered him refuge from the baying blood hounds of North America. However that was to drastically change over night as an international warrant has been issued for his arrest over claims of rape and sexual assault. The timing couldn't have been perfect. One wonders at the true authenticity of any allegations, warrant, etc.

Assange nevertheless is a busy man: Wikileaking and (If the Swedish women are to be believed) WillieLeaking.

Some leaking facts about Assange:

• The seemingly African surname- Ah Sang or Mr Sang: dates its origins to a Chinese immigrant who migrated to Australia in the 1800's.

• His maternal ancestors are Scottish and Irish who also migrated to Australia in the 19th century. (It is thus safe to conclude that Assange's nomadic lifestyle is embalmed in his molecular DNA).

• Born in 1971 on the 3rd day of the seventh month.

• His parents met at a demonstration against the Vietnam War.

• Claire: his mother; burned her school books at the tender age of 17 and escaped from home on a motorbike.

• Assange's childhood was as unstable as a wooden rocking horse on three legs....making Oliver Twist's seemingly stable.Reports have it before he was fourteen, the family had moved about thirty seven times.

• Between the ages of  eleven and sixteen, Assange, his mother and half brother were fugitives on the run from his mother's ex-lover.(What is it they say about living your adult life as a child? deja vu?)

• His unreciprocated cyber love affair with the US state government began at sweet sixteen when in 1987 he started hacking into the US defence systems under the name Mendax(more like Menace).He joined forces with two other hackers to form a group called International Subversives.

• Married at eighteen in an unofficial ceremony.They shortly had a son.

• Arrested in 1991 by Australian police for hacking.

• Pleaded guilty to twenty four charges of hacking in 1992 and was release due to his actions being regarded as the "sort of intelligent inquisitiveness and the pleasure of being able to—what's the expression—surf through these various computers"(The New Yorker-June 2010).
• His mother alleges stress from the arrest, his partner leaving him soon after and a three year custodial battle over his young son left him depress and turned his brown hair...GREY.(Ah! Eureka moment for myself here as I have pondered over his silver mop of hair day and night.). 

Here are my "favourite" leaking wee Wikileaks:

A most Royal Buffoon:Prince Andrew

• Prince Andrew described by  US Ambassador as cocky, rude and a  boorish "bungling free loader" who cavorted shamelessly in awe, admiration and surprise at the wealth of Middle Eastern Royalty, Sheiks & Emirs.A letter of thanks to a Bahrain host went "my little plane parked to your stunning jet".Talk about a fat kid let free in a cake shop. He was portrayed as spoilt & petulant with little knowledge of his role as Britain's Special Trade Envoy. His Royal dumbness travels with a six foot long ironing board everywhere and has earned himself the tittle HBH...His Buffoon Highness.

• HBH-the Prince of Freebies declared the French corrupt and noisy.What a startling revelation that is!

• Brown was dismissed as an "abysmal" politician who lacked the charisma of Blair, by the US.Well here's some news to our dear American cousins: I rather be a child of Brown than of a Bush fool!

• Our English Cousins were also taken back by British "paranoia" over maintaining  "the special relationship" between the US & UK.William Hague took a further step in grovelling towards our cousins; acting like a somewhat heavy laden arse donkey by professing himself, Osborne & Cameron as "Children of Thatcher" and  "staunch Atlanticists" with a sister who lives in America and he vacations in America. Our Foreign Secretary just took the term kiss a**e to a whole new level.

• The French Midget-Sarkozy was described as an "emperor with no clothes" by US officials.Can't say his stretch skin face wife will complain about a no clothes Sarko though! The thought is stomach churning.Carla is one brave lass.

• The Afghan Vice President flew to Duba in in October 2009 with $52million in cash.The African Kleptos have some serious contenders here.

• China accusing North Korea of acting like a "spoiled child".Sarah Palin wouldn't be too happy to read about one of our allies being describes as so. Palingly Disturbing.

No doubt Julian Assange is a cyber space Peeping Tom who regards himself as an "information activists" whose organisation WikiLeaks may have caused irreversible damage on diplomatic friendships and perhaps "world peace"? When does freedom of speech and information become detrimental to it's core foundation- freedom?