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struggle4progress

(120,536 posts)
Thu Sep 13, 2012, 06:33 PM Sep 2012

Bad Ideas: WikiLeaks Seems to Think Attacks on U.S. Embassies Are All About Them

Too soon, Mr. Assange, too soon.
By Steve Huff 12:49pm

With an ill-advised tweet posted Wednesday, WikiLeaks may have won the tacky self-interest sweepstakes. The tweet, which was quickly deleted, suggested a deadly attack aimed at the American Embassy in Benghazi, Libya was justified by Julian Assange’s refugee status inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London.

The Guardian assumed the tweet was written by Mr. Assange. Whoever posted the statement, they clearly weren’t looking much further than their own navel, writing:

By the US accepting the UK siege on the Ecuadorian embassy in London it gave tacit approval for attacks on embassies around the world


The whistle-blowers followed up with an explanation of the deletion that implied the controversial post was deleted because perhaps people were too stupid to get it ...

http://betabeat.com/2012/09/wikileaks-seems-to-think-attacks-on-u-s-embassies-are-all-about-them/
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Bad Ideas: WikiLeaks Seems to Think Attacks on U.S. Embassies Are All About Them (Original Post) struggle4progress Sep 2012 OP
GOLDSTEIN!!1 frylock Sep 2012 #1
I love their 'explanation'... Wait Wut Sep 2012 #2
It's good to see that you aren't running out of fresh material... a geek named Bob Sep 2012 #3
At least Julian, Mitt and you now all have something which makes you similar... nt Pholus Sep 2012 #4

Wait Wut

(8,492 posts)
2. I love their 'explanation'...
Thu Sep 13, 2012, 06:45 PM
Sep 2012

...insinuating that their followers were too stupid to understand the word 'tacit'.

 

a geek named Bob

(2,715 posts)
3. It's good to see that you aren't running out of fresh material...
Thu Sep 13, 2012, 06:50 PM
Sep 2012

Some performance artists have that issue.

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