Don't worry Donald, Julian Assange self-appointed cyber-Pope & Putin R coming to save your candidacy

[Bill USA]

Last night on PBS Newshour, Judy Woodruff interviewed Julian Assange. She tried to get him to admit he got the hacked DNC and Clinton campaign emails from Russia. He just said the emails were from the DNC and the Clinton campaign. He would not admit that WikiLeaks got these materials from Russia. American intelligence experts think the emails were hacked by Russia¹. He did, however, take the opportunity to favor viewers with his judgment that Hillary Clinton was unfit to serve as President of the United States.

JUDY WOODRUFF: Well, let me ask you about that, about the — what you consider a successful outcome here, because we know you have made clear your strong feelings about Hillary Clinton.

You wrote back in February — and I’m quoting now — “She’s a war hawk who gets an unseemly emotional rush out of killing people. She shouldn’t be let near a gun shop, much less an army. She certainly shouldn’t become president.”

So, I think, why shouldn’t the American people assume there’s a political motive here?

Assange offered a circumlocuted answer which did NOT include a denial of any political motivation to his actions.

Assange has anointed himself Cyber-Pope of the world which allows him to pass moral judgment on people and nations and exact penalties by releasing cyber-bombs - hacked emails - as punishment for their sins. In this case the cyber-bomb is meant to weaken, perhaps seriously, the campaign of a candidate in an American election he deems to be not fit to be president of the United States. IT's not clear when God spoke to Assange and gave him this assignment to save and discipline the World. Of course, such releases of hacked emails would give voters a glimpse of inner workings of a campaign but there is no guarantee it would be a representative glimpse. In fact, it can almost be guaranteed to NOT be the full picture of whatever issue the revealed information pertained to. This is the kind of thing the GOP has been doing for decades to menace the Clintons and confuse the American public.

What Assange is actually, is an enabler of Russia. Russia wouldn't publish these hacked emails themselves as it would expose them to harsh criticism and could have repercussions. But Assange gives Russia a means of affecting (sabotaging) our election of our next president - without exposing itself to criticism and possible consequences. Russia, most certainly is politically motivated. Russia would rather have the clown Trump to run rings around rather than to face the very intelligent and tough adversary Clinton would be. Assange, by claiming he has to publish materials brought to Wikileaks is blithely refusing to take any responsibility for enabling Russia in their politically motivated acts. If Trump were to become President, the repercussions could be monstrous and tragic. Even Republican politicians have expressed real concern about Trump's erratic pronouncements and behavior.

Frankly, I don't buy Assange's assertion that he is without political motivation - which he actually, in his circumlocuted answer, did NOT deny. With supercilious, willful obtuseness he said sabotaging Hillary's campaign does not constitute an endorsement of Trump. Well, thank you for that - your holiness... but since he is the only other candidate - that is, in effect, exactly what it is.


I don't know about how other people react to this, but I am more than moderately infuriated that somebody who is not a U.S. citizen thinks it's okay for him to throw out cyber-bombs to affect the U.S. Presidential election. From 1978 to 1995 Ted Kaczynski mailed several bombs to scientists in his campaign against "evil" technological progress. He was dubbed the Unibomber. In his mind, he had reasons for his bombing campaign and he wrote a lengthy manifesto detailing his rationale for opposition to industrialization and modern technology. He ultimately killed a total of three people and injured 23 others.

Assange is of the same ilk as Kaczynski, confident he is better equipped than anyone else to make moral judgments of society and thus entitled to exact punishments on those he has devined are guilty of crimes against humanity. Anyone who thinks he can be judge, jury and executioner is obviously a narcissist indulging in delusions of grandeur. "One of the most important symptoms of pathological narcissism (the Narcissistic Personality Disorder) is grandiosity. ...Grandiose fantasies ... are the reason that the narcissist feels entitled to special treatment..."² and why he can confer upon himself special powers and a unique position of authority over other mere mortals, meting out discipline as he deems appropriate and necessary.



1. __ [font size="3"]FBI Suspects Russia Hacked DNC; U.S. Officials Say It Was to Elect Donald Trump
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Did the Russian government hack the DNC to bring down Hillary Clinton? That’s the view that’s quickly emerging inside American intelligence and law enforcement agencies.[/font]

The FBI suspects that Russian government hackers breached the networks of the Democratic National Committee and stole emails that were posted to the anti-secrecy site WikiLeaks on Friday. It’s an operation that several U.S. officials now suspect was a deliberate attempt to influence the presidential election in favor of Donald Trump, according to five individuals familiar with the investigation of the breach.

The theory that Moscow orchestrated the leaks to help Trump—who has repeatedly praised Russian President Vladimir Putin and practically called for the end of NATO—is fast gaining currency within the Obama administration because of the timing of the leaks and Trump’s own connections to the Russian government, the sources said on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing and developing quickly.

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“The release of emails just as the Democratic National Convention is getting underway this week has the hallmarks of a Russian active measures campaign,” David Shedd, a former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, told The Daily Beast. Shedd said that additional leaks were likely, echoing an opinion expressed by U.S. officials and experts who said that the release of emails on Friday may just be an opening salvo.
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2. __ http://samvak.tripod.com/journal91.html

One of the most important symptoms of pathological narcissism (the Narcissistic Personality Disorder) is grandiosity. Grandiose fantasies (megalomaniac delusions of grandeur) permeate every aspect of the narcissist's personality. [font size="+1"]They are the reason that the narcissist feels entitled to special treatment[/font] which is typically incommensurate with his real accomplishments. The Grandiosity Gap is the abyss between the narcissist's self-image (as reified by his False Self) and reality.

[glennward]

1. And no many even care now what they have to say. nt

[Vanilla Warcraft]

2. journalistic ethics

I wish interviewers would question him about the timing of his release of the emails. He intended to cause the most damage possible. Isn't this a violation of journalistic ethics? How long did he have the information?

[Bill USA]

3. mr. Assange decides what rules of ethics, journalistic or otherwise, he will deign to respect.

He set's his own limits. ... Rules of Narcissistic Exceptionalism (also see: Also Sprache Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche)