On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 06:09:37AM -0400, John Newman wrote: ... mucho snippo ...
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.
From inside the Ecuadorian embassy, Julian --continues-- to publish
There is a phrase, and you can pretend I said this immortal quote but it would not be the case that I originated it: "One man can change the world." A man who stands on principle can be many things which can change a particular "world" (if not the world at large): - the canary in the mine whistleblower, e.g. "keeping the TOR bastards honest" and thus causing a lot of angst for those who wanted to use Tor for their state-sponsored human-subversive intentions - the sole individual who facilitates/ is the conduit for key transmissions of whistleblowers and their information, to a publisher who has infrastructure to publish bypassing national "intelligence networks" - e.g. to connect a Chelsie Manning to a Julian Assange. Remember - there was (perhaps still is, we don't know because it's so top secretive) a grand jury out to hang draw and quarter Julian Assange, an Australian - I think Australia has an extradition treaty with USA, we certainly host Pine Gap which is a global hub for the USA/ five eyes. HUGE resources have been put into this case against Julian - plane flights - enrollement of foreign so-called "sovereign" governments such as UK, Sweden, Australia - subversion of the Swedish justice department - unilaterally grounding the aeroplane of the president of Ecuador - and probably plenty more behind the scenes which we are not aware of publicly. THIS IS F@#$ING HUGE!!! The USA/CIA/FBI/NorthAmerican Government wants Julian Assange really, really badly! things which embarrass the North American establishment oligarchs - Hitlery emails, banking scandals, war files and plenty more. Wikileaks (with all its problems which around these parts some are aware of) is a MASSIVE thorn in the side of the Empire of the North American and Atlantic Regime. Jacob Applebaum was a key figure facilitating the conduit of leakers to Assange, and, apparently, certainly quite possibly, keeping the bastards honest at Tor Inc, which was supposed to be an American Military and CIA operation - and here was this pipsqueak Jacob taking the "published principles of an intention (however weakly implemented) toward aiding public anonymity of transmission of information", literally! Jacob Applebaum took that fucking intention fucking literally! The fucking hide of him!!! How DARE anyone take principled intentions literally, ESPECIALLY when the neoc9nt American establishment is paying for it. FFS, Wake UP!
Maybe he was just a douche bag with a few people too many and they threw up some exaggerated reports to get him chucked.
Well that certainly demonstrates the principled actions of a principled North American Incorporation spreading the principles of Democracy, Transparency, Liberty of information, and the Rule of Law, now doesn't it?
In any event, he doesn't seem to be fighting back particularly hard.
Read his words. Read his interviews. He was being actively stalked and monitored by The Powers That Be, and he became aware of this, realised he needed to do more of the op-sec he was teaching whistleblowers how to do, his op sec was far above what most of us ever approach. Jacob was not able to live a "normal" life. Perhaps he was grateful for the opportunity to bow out? IDK, just postulating of course, but hell, if he really was the only man truly standing in the gaggle of self interested, intensely feminazi and pro CIA agents employees of Tor Inc, for that many years, I imagine he'd "fucking had enough". Perhaps few men could stand as long as he did in his situation... most are armchair anarchists, armchair Mannings, armchair Assanges, waving our arms at "What a fucking bad job they're doing, I could do it SO much better".