I saw it and thought it was “spot on.”

Hi Jane this is “spot on” as I join in with my cup of tea.

This is exactly what I thought of when his attorney said Assange was fine but that he wanted a computer in prison.

“As if!”

I love how all of the establishment journalists are running around like chickens with their heads cut off screaming that Wikileaks ‘just ain’t journalism”!

On the other hand, I regret that SNL and the press are focusing on the man instead of the message in the released documents, or as I said above, on differentiating their organization from Wikileaks as quickly and bluntly as they can. I guess focusing on not-journalism is another way for the press to disregard the significance of the documents which Wikileaks has published.

I have absolutely no pity for the press who are consistently being one-upped by Wikileaks especially after they have so completely censored both of the american wars.

If Brittain extradites Asange, expect him to extradited from Sweden to the evil capitalist empire (formerly known as the US) without ever being brought to trial for the phony rape charges. Just as soon as di fi and eric “place” holder can invent some crime to charge him with.

“I love how all of the establishment journalists are running around like chickens with their heads cut off screaming that Wikileaks ‘just ain’t journalism”!

they are running around like decapitated chickens trying to claim Wikileaks isnt journalism becasue J.A. hasnt done anything the NYT has done many many times. Or at least used to do, when they really WERE journalist, and not amplifiers for state department memos and press releases

Scott Horton (the lawyer) said in an interview at Antiwar.com that he suspects that they may try to rendition him here as a ‘witness’ regarding the leaked cables.

Whats the latest on his case? I hope they go after more banks.

Assange has denied any relation between Wikileaks and the hackers retaliating allegedly on their behalf, over and over again. That’s the only disappointing part of the SNL skit.

Their idea of journalism is spoon fed leaks at a cocktail weenie party. They don’t investigate anything anymore they just write what they are told.

David Sanger told T. Gross on NPR that he cleared every Wikileaks release with the freekin WH. AssW*Pe

now that REALLY sounds like american “justice” in the 21st century. whatever the ham handed US does, Julian Assange is going to come off looking like Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn . It really, REALLY is time for good night for the Anerican empire. American dont make good imperialists. We arent multi lingual enough to start with.

Ummm… Brittain

di fi and eric “place” holder can invent some crime to charge him with

No need. He’s Australian. Descended from a line of convicts, transported instead of being hung. That UK Bill of Attainder will fix him!!!

Overshadowing the huge WikiLeaks story will be the behind-the-scenes cyberwar being waged by the growing army of hackers known as Anonymous in an action called Operation Payback.

As Assange was remanded in custody and taken to Wandsworth jail, Anonymous vowed to “punish” the institutions that had axed links with the website under pressure from the US authorities. The websites of Visa, Mastercard and PayPal were brought down; so too the Swedish government’s.

Operation Payback is attracting hackers from every corner of the globe. and are united in their hatred of the brutal authoritarianism of the United States.

Anonymous leaders began distributing software tools to allow anyone with a computer to join Payback. So far more than 9,000 users in the US have downloaded the software; in second place is the UK with 3,000. Germany, the Netherlands, Canada, France, Spain, Poland, Russia and Australia follow with more than 1,000.

Those participating in Operation Payback are taking no hostages.

“[The hackers] attack from the shadows and they have no fear of retaliation. There are no rules of engagement in this kind of emerging warfare.”

One Anonymous hacker said: “I’ve rambled on and on about the ‘oncoming internet war’ for years. I’m not saying I know how to win. But I am saying the war is on.”

Since when does interpol bother with sex crimes I mean international manhunt seems a bit over board don’t they just e mail out wanted posters over this?
Who pulled interpol’s chain and made them bark? Daddy Bush the ex Spook?

Operation Payback is attracting hackers from every corner of the globe. and are united in their hatred of the brutal authoritarianism of the United States.

So far http://static1.firedoglake.com/common/images/editor/quote.gifmore than 9,000 users in the US have downloaded the software; in second place is the UK with 3,000

Given how Fox and the GOP are demanding his head I assume the majority of the 9,000 are us or leaning our way.
Obama really has lost the Left. I always wondered how the Left would respond violence is so Tea Baggy, Protests don’t get media coverage something had to change.
I wonder if this is the change?

If Assange is extradited from the UK, it will not be to Sweden. With the CIA hooker/accuser absconding to the ME, the rape charge is a total sham. It was merely a pretext to have Assange detained in the UK, which has a more extradition treaty with the US more favorable than the one with Sweden.

That is indeed the plan.

Hope they take on a corrupt and complicit U.S. corporate media. Nothing more than an instrument of indoctrination and propaganda to serve the plutocracy and the status quo.

9,000 in the US I guess America is not as popular as it thinks it is. The rich may own everything but the educated who do the actual thinking to make things work are getting cranky.
If your dumb enough to believe Fox News you have to shoot or bomb people you don’t have options.
We have options you can’t run a government a bank or a business without computers these days.

America has what standing to try an Australian in a case that happened in Sweden? I don’t doubt you its just…this sounds like Jon Woo’s legal arguments.

good on SNL

too tired of this shitty world to break my thoughts down further :)

It’ll be interesting to see what comes out of that grand jury. I’d be surprised if we bring him here as anything more than a witness, but then I’ve been surprised a hell of a lot in the last couple years.

Oh no! Not Hangin’ with Mr. Cooper!

That’s truly vile.

It seems like JA must have had bad legal advice if he went to the UK and can be extradited to the US more easily. That can’t be right.

I think that Julian Assange’s lawyer when he was interviewed by D. Frost on Al Jezeera made it clear that Wikileaks has no relationship with the hackers conducting the cyberwarfare allegedly in retaliation for government interference with Wikileaks funding services and asking amazon.com to terminate their services. It is premature to make any links between these hackers and Wikileaks, and it will only bolster the governments oppressive response to falsely equate Wikileaks with these hackers. Be careful not to feed this ‘war’ theme when this is really an issue of a free press being able to conduct itself without interference from TPTB.

Unless they’re confident they haven’t broken any laws… not that that’s ever stopped our government from ruining someone.

Does anyone have another video link to this? I can’t get this one to run with my security software. (NBC and MSNBC, oddly enough, seem to have this problem more than any other networks.)

Anna didn’t show up in the ME. She’s currently off the screen.

I don’t get the Hangin’ w/ Mr. Cooper reference, as we didn’t have a TV when the show was on and I’ve never even heard of it, nor has Ms. ET, who is more into TV sit-coms than I am.

Insnt it typical that all hell didnt break loose until Wikileaks claimed they were going to realease information about american banks? We have to be the first empire in history to be ruled by the fucking money grubbers. Even the Hanseatic League and the Merchant kindoms of Italy answered to some Prince, or to the Pope. The American Capitalist God men have no authority but themselves and thier money. This cant possibly end well.

what does the UK bill of attainder have to do with US law? we are no longer part of the commonwealth.

US has turned into a very shitty country, not that it has not been for a long time, only the choices we have is between 2 corporate parties, just one of them will put all the little people in the poor house quicker.

I suspect thats the point. Only we cant hang this around John Woos neck. This is an Eric Holder/Barrack Obama poduction.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/assange-accuser-stops-cooperating-police/

She went to the Occupied Territories.

Well it certainly is nice to see that Eric Holder is going to start enforcing the law. It is a little curious that he has chosen to start with laws that don’t exist for actions that are not crimes but he had to start somewhere and of course he could not connect the dots on Bush’s public confession of war crimes and the actual laws against those crimes. What a servile little wish he was that man has been his whole life.

I imagine Obama’s corporate minders are all over his feeble manhood to find a way to get Assange out of the picture. Funny thing in America, you just can’t create a martyr because there is no memory of anything more than a television series ago. Who were John Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Bobby Kennedy and can anyone name without googling the four students killed at Kent State. More people remember the name of Obama’s dog.

All good points.

THis is why I wonder sometimes if Technology, for all its good, has also been our final undoing. We have become lost in the sea of data, hypnotized by our toobs, and ignorant of our past, present, and future.

Just so a body does not get discouraged, one should be aware that Sam Mclean and GetUp! in Australia has rallied 350,000 to sign up to a published letter of support for Wikileaks and Assange:

http://www.perthnow.com.au/business/getup-to-back-wikileaks-founder-in-ads/story-e6frg2rc-1225968443838

Spot On! “No matter how I die, even if there’s a suicide note…IT WAS MURDER”. I was disgusted throughout the reagan years, but I’ve never been this frightened….jesus, where we’re going is terrifying. I made myself listen to 5 minutes of AM talk radio last night, and the spin for President Shit For Brains Quitter palin is STRONG. And Dems are SO depressed, SHE’LL PROBABLY WIN!

SNL completely misses the target again. They are mocking the one guy on the planet who has managed to shine some light on the illegal shit perpetrated by our US empire and get some attention paid to same?

SNL joins the rest of the ostrich-like head-in-the-sand media by focusing on the messenger, not the message.

Also, Wikileaks does not equal 4chan. I’d like to see anybody direct or reign in those guys. Heh.