-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 07/15/2016 06:09 AM, John Newman wrote:
On Jul 15, 2016, at 2:27 AM, Steve Kinney <admin@pilobilus.net> wrote:
It is possible that Our Mr. Applebaum is a raging asshole who routinely mistreats women in serious ways. But if so, the lack of any criminal charges or civil action is surprising.
It is possible that he is a victim of spontaneous combustion comparable to the Mean Girls on the cheerleading squad getting some amusing revenge, motivated by nothing more serious than some naive sap's socially awkward behavior. That model fits the available evidence better than the criminal model.
It is highly probable that IF a political warfare activity was asked to arrange this party for Our Mr. Applebaum, they could quote a very reasonable price and deliver the goods on time. The beauty part: By itself this observation proves nothing, as it is difficult or impossible to prove absent a credible inside source. That's the beauty part of the institution of State Secrecy.
Wtf is or was so important about Appelbaum that would lead to any kind of massive conspiratorial smear campaign? Who gains from taking him down? He may talk about him a lot, but he's not Julian Assange.
I don't know. He may have done as little as personally offended someone with the power to order his disposal. It does seem a bit much to call a conspiratorial operation at this scale "massive" in the world where the 911 attack happened, and U.S. propaganda assets continue to sell false narratives of /many/ violent events to the public. The stunning success of efforts to manage Western press coverage of the annexation of Libya on Secretary Clinton's watch is more frightening to me than the whole history of the Bush/Obama Administration's nuclear brinksmanship vs. the Russian Federation, still in progress and apparently locked in for eight more years.
Maybe he was just a douche bag with a few people too many and they threw up some exaggerated reports to get him chucked.
To me that seems the most likely answer. "Douchebag" is in the eye of the beholder, and it doesn't take much to trigger disproportionate retaliation in a hostile workplace environment.
In any event, he doesn't seem to be fighting back particularly hard.
Lao Tzu has a lot to say about the strategic value of calculated non-action. Attorneys generally advise world + dog to wait for the opposition to disclose everything it has before doing anything other than assert the right to remain silent. :o/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJXiSe7AAoJEECU6c5Xzmuq0tAH/2hcKDlsKjKUJtXOBWR0Dhjf B1W8AlgAT3xPoSpVY0Wwy2OdBSTXmF24WQgzeRkhN0UmoPISGgQQMLUYIHK0KOSE fuRuMLIgns01Zqa3qaAyoyFjgtNhh4L3a3oTU0lglo2u6Ub7ZYXBO2jP19dJFR1N iCJj8YSw2XyZwzfOTlCeAccq5JbY+TR4AzAPeNmj1x4vKf0A9Xp6ztuuknO33GLk qi5YYDwEbDQ/sDrUQzUFlytXcRTqFnfjRmEnkVSh+fgA08FdDynAr4nTZfFMzWqS bRkVxt43udOS3+D6onquUpDPCBS2EDQdciEvO7brj0B9H5YP0Se89Vz9V83NVpM= =a62V -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----