USA och Storbritannien underminererar sin ställning som ‘good guy’ i världen

US, UK Betray Basic Values To Get Assange At Any Cost | Techdirt

And even if we believe that the US is actually mostly good on human rights issues, these moves all make it significantly harder to have any semblance of a moral high ground in dealing with other nations around the globe. We have failed, quite publicly, to live up to our own set of ideals, and that makes it nearly impossible for our own diplomats to carry out any sort of human rights mission around the globe. It’s one thing to be ashamed of specific actions by my own government. That happens. But, what horrifies me about this situation is that we’ve now built up this perfectly handy tool to make the job of US diplomats focused on human rights issues almost impossible. Any effort to seek better human rights elsewhere will be met with pushback as foreign governments point to the US’s own awful track record on these particular items. It’s really quite a shame.

Jag är rädd för att han kommer att utlämnas till Sverige, förundersökningen läggs ner eftersom den är så tunn, han lämnas ut till USA på löften om att dödsstraff inte finns på bordet och sedan drar USA igång med Espionage Act, Terrorism-anklagelser osv. När sedan en svensk diplomat står, högröd i ansiktet och säger: “but you promised…” så säger amerikanerna: “So??…”

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Anonymous startar egen wikileaks-liknande site: Par:AnoIA

Par:AnoIA: Anonymous Launches WikiLeaks-esque Site for Data Dumps | Wired.com

Frustrated by the lack of impact from Anonymous’ otherwise famous hacks and data dumps, and the slow pace of material coming out of WikiLeaks, participants in the Anonymous collective have launched a WikiLeaks-like site called Par:AnoIA (Potentially Alarming Research: Anonymous Intelligence Agency).