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Assange is a bail-breaker and a charlatan; but the Bradley Manning incarceration and prosecution undoubtedly raises serious concerns.
@ggreenwald - @guardian journos tend to break out in South Park like snickering at anyone who stands up to authority or opposes 'their' wars
. @johnnypaige @Glinner Johnny, why are we 'chomskyite whack jobs'? Is +that+ engagement and serious debate from the Guardian?
@Scarletstand I remain confused as to how Sweden is more dangerous for him than here, given our pathetically service extradition treaty
If Sweden can go to Serbia to interview MURDERERS why can't they come to UK to interview Julian #Assange? http://translate.google.de/translate?sl=s …
Doesn't Assange insult the genuinely persecuted, by dressing up in their clothes?
If, as seems, no link btwn Swedish case & US, lots of people trying to prevent a man being qu'd over rape. Great liberal cause? #Assange
. @jamesrbuk No doubt. But an amazing error, repeated by @alexhern in the New Statesman http://tinyurl.com/cun7m3t
@medialens I just watched it – knowing the case you're right as to what she was talking about. But think Peter's error was an honest one.
Hey, I just met you/ And Sweden’s crazy/ So could you grant me/ Asylum maybe?
. @jamesrbuk The solitary confinement was December 2010, not 'last ten days' - maybe you could let Peter Beaumont know.
@ChrChristensen @alexhern Nope – she's a supporter. Think some people just assumed she was a lawyer (I didn't watch statement).
@jamesrbuk Save your head - looks like you misquoted Benn
Good stuff from @alexhern on today's Assange statement, and the reasoning behind the asylum bid: http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/politics …
@jamesrbuk just what she said. leave comment to you. i'm on my way to un in geneva as part of high paid role as liberal elite propagandist
RT @petersbeaumont: Benn characterised last ten days as "solitary confinement" for Assange < *headbutts desk repeatedly*
@petersbeaumont "credible evidence" being a one-line email from *Stratfor*?! Jesus wept.
Benn characterised last ten days as "solitary confinement" for Assange
Benn also rehearsed again case of threat Assange believes he faces from US, say credible evidence of sealed indictment
if you care to hear someone making a statement about st julian of #assange, it is live on sky now
General message: St Julian of #Assange is being persecuted and zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...
St Julian is staying in Ecuador and has sent a lady of older years out to issue his missive. #Assange
Surely the ethically consistent position on #Assange is to oppose his extradition to the US, but not to Sweden. #Wikileaks
WHY is he doing this?? He's such a crashing disappointment http://tinyurl.com/6wrn3y2
#Assange: Guardian quietly issues another correction (see end of article) http://tinyurl.com/c7hnvpb
Anyway, I called Newsnight back too late to appear on their "Assange package" tonight. Too busy arguing with Edwina.
Was invited onto Newsnight to discuss Assange. That would have been fun and popular.
Scotland Yard paused briefly from taking News International backhanders to call for the arrest of Julian Assange for breaking bail.
. @queenchristina_ No, nothing whatever to do with conspiracy theories. Is your view of Assange based on a similarly rigorous investigation?
@philipcross63 Oh right. So conspiracy theory nonsense. Thanks for letting me know.
@queenchristina_ COI here, but the Wikipedia article on @medialens links to articles by their critics & few supporters: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Lens
. @ggreenwald Beaumont not a fan of ours after this dissection of his less than 'superb demolition' of Chomsky in 2006: http://bit.ly/MDlHNJ
@medialens If he clicks on the link I tweeted, which I know he will, he'll be exposed to that which he blocks
. @ggreenwald Peter Beaumont, another journalist blocking us even from following his tweets or writing to him. And incivility is not our bag
@queenchristina_ @medialens Someone called "Christina Patterson" thinks that mocking someone as nonrecognizable impugns their arguments
@petersbeaumont "Ad hominem attacks" Such as? Did I call anyone a "massive turd" or say they're fat & unshaven? http://is.gd/R3FD2K
Rather touchingly, I'm now getting tweets from pro-Assange disciples literally headed 'polite tweet'.
@rhodri @suzanne_moore Yes, they've put together a little list of culprits, and tells people to 'maintain a polite and non-abusive tone'
I probably shouldn't laugh, but something called 'Media Lens' is telling people to tick me off for my views on Julian Assange,but be polite
Meanwhile @ggreenwald, after days of ad hominem attacks on any who disagree with him, thinks Brit media "bizarrely personal" #potkettle?
It’s pretty obvious by now that Julian #assange isn’t in the Ecuadorian embassy, but has been rendered to the US with the help of Israel.
I am not "debating with @medialens cos they set their hounds on me. If they give me their names and emails I will.
A first - the Guardian's Suzanne Moore has blocked us before we even tried to follow her!
@medialens yes and good bye.
. @suzanne_moore Who do we 'support'? Do you have any idea actually?
Also seeing @medialens are telling people to get in touch with me. Check out WHO they are and WHO they support .
Being followed by an account called @EMBASSYInteriors. Shame Julian Assange isn't tweeting, he'd probably have a lot to discuss with them
London's liberal media clique shows its inner values on Assange http://www.medialens.org/index.php?opti … http://justice4assange.com/donate.html
Go away Assange lovers and love him upelsewhere. Yes I know who @MediaLens are which is more than you do.
Superb summary from @medialens on the 'liberal' media's reaction to Assange seeking political asylum http://is.gd/R3FD2K
Of over 80 prominent people who've signed letter of support for Assange's asylum request, only handful are journalists http://bit.ly/PKso35
This is the #Assange letter by the American idiots, and every assertion about the law is plain wrong or has no basis: http://bit.ly/Mdrihg
Prominent American idiots want to frustrate due process regarding serious allegations of rape and sexual assault: http://bit.ly/KA4zXq
OK, having read strongest cases tweeps cld find, not convinced that Sweden more likely to extradite #Assange than UK.
The Guardian's neocon columnist writes about US law - hilarity ensues: http://is.gd/AhBvVk
Getting plenty on why Sweden might want to extradite #Assange, but nothing persuasive on why UK less likely to.
@GeorgeMonbiot Have you not heard anyone making the case before? You just decided to ask for a "persuasive" case w/o seeing the advocacy?
@GeorgeMonbiot It's obvious you intend to find any such argument unpersuasive, but here are the arguments & evidence: http://is.gd/NDNORz
Can anyone point me to persuasive piece on why Sweden would be more likely to extradite #Assange to US than UK? Genuine inquiry.
In case you'd forgotten, Julian Assange is still at the Ecuadorian embassy. Wonder if they've been ordering him takeaway every night?
Hi @DeborahJaneOrr 'Of course Assange should face the charges brought against him in Sweden.' What 'charges'? http://tinyurl.com/794462u
@OliverKamm That's how reliable your smears are Kamm. To paraphrase @ggreenwald: shocking that a neocon warmonger dislikes Media Lens
@OliverKamm @ggreenwald ML uses many 100s of sources - it's desperate to smear us with comments we didn't cite on issues we didn't discuss!
. @OliverKamm @ggreenwald Wrong! ML: 'we have never written about the Srebrenica massacre...other than to affirm that it was a massacre'
. @OliverKamm @NickCohen4 @ggreenwald Wrong! ML: 'We recognise the bloody ruthlessness of the Syrian Baathists.. continued now by.. Bashar'
@ggreenwald You won't get a sensible answer from that quarter. @medialens's "expert sources" extend to genocide deniers & 9/11 Truthers.
@OliverKamm @DavidAllenGreen @NickCohen4 @medialens I "pleaded" by asking them for citations? One thing they didn't do: cheer for Iraq War
@DavidAllenGreen @NickCohen4 This was after @ggreenwald pleaded for help from @medialens, a group that defends Assad and denies Srebrenica.
@MarkAdomanis You know about his history, right? I'd be upset if he weren't a scornful critic
Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, sought political asylum at which embassy in London? Take our weekly quiz http://econ.st/L1Aemc
@ggreenwald you probably already saw but passing this on Even by the Guardian's ever-lower standards its remarkably bad http://goo.gl/jX1uY
Definition of paranoia: supporters of Julian Assange | Nick Cohen http://gu.com/p/38gzd/tw via @guardian
Superb Definition of paranoia: supporters of Julian Assange | Nick Cohen http://gu.com/p/38gzd/tw
Fine piece by @NickCohen4 on the paranoid philosophy of Assange's supporters. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/ …
What does it say that @ggreenwald, a US political analyst, is all but alone in challenging the tsunami of UK 'liberal' smears on #Assange?
Bravura piece by @NickCohen4 on #Assange and his paranoid supporters http://gu.com/p/38gzd/tw #wikileaks
@teymoornabili Ah, this would explain it. http://www.medialens.org/index.php?sear … via @medialens
@ggreenwald Glenn, begin at no.44 and work forwards in time searching each alert for 'Cohen' http://tinyurl.com/7du782r
Astute and wise @NickCohen4 column on Assange, WikiLeaks and self-destructive paramoia: http://bit.ly/LJx5Zm
Another bilious outpouring. What is it about the Assange/Ecuador connection that inspires such scorn? http://gu.com/p/38gzd/tw via @guardian
@medialens Can you point me to all of @NickCohen4's war cheerleading greatest hits?
Outstanding Nick Cohen column on Julian #Assange http://bit.ly/LJx5Zm
Connoisseurs of the pwning of #Assange conspiracy theorists should see @jeremyduns take on @ggreenwald yesterday. ht @OliverKamm
@OliverKamm @NickCohen4 Ouch. @ggreenwald utterly pwned by @jeremyduns
And this is me - nearly *two* years ago - pointing out at Jack of Kent the cultish behaviour of #Assange supporters: http://bit.ly/LVPrUS
Here is @NickCohen4 stamping on #Assange's paranoid conspiracy theorist supporters: http://bit.ly/LJx5Zm
@NickCohen4 Lauding yourself as "aggressive" - because you want to send others to die in war - is so incredibly revealing.
@NickCohen4 The greatest tribute to the virtue of WL is it prompts the scorn of cowardly warmongers like you: "Yay war (when others fight)"
The tweet David Allen Green deleted http://is.gd/ANEYIV was within a series of Assange tweets which prompted my reply: http://is.gd/web8FP
To illustrate how full of it the British Anti-Assange League is: David Green deleted the tweet I responded to here: http://is.gd/web8FP
@saliltripathi @NickCohen4 Trying to convince the public to attack a country based on non-existent weapons is just paranoid
@NickCohen4 @saliltripathi It would have been "aggressive" if you went to fight instead of sending others to die for you
@ggreenwald @saliltripathi That's aggressive, not paranoid
@saliltripathi @NickCohen4 And I love being called "paranoid" by someone who spent 2002 & 2003 publicy demanding an attack on Saddam
@NickCohen4 a quibble. Assange not an "incontinent leaker," but instead a capricious gatekeeper, an archetype of Freudian info-constipation
@petersbeaumont @sunny_hundal You really are a supreme hypocrite Peter. All the BS about Assange has been coming frm Guardian & Observer
Julian Assange and the paranoid style in progressive politics. My Observer column Nick Cohen http://gu.com/p/38gzd/tw via @guardian
Annoyed by journos quoting only half my tweet about Assange & deliberately ignoring other half. Distorts point. The curse of 140 chars
There are now signs offering a free #assange at the Ecuadorian embassy. Apparently nobody wants him. #occupyknightsbridge
Excellent nuanced piece by @sunny_hundal cutting through all the bullshit about Assange http://liberalconspiracy.org/2012/06/21/jul …
It takes no courage to reinforce public sentiment against a man who believes that he is running for his life. #ASSANGE
Guardian makes up with Assange by offering escape route suggestions: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/jun …
¿In England there is true democracy? ¿Why the British journalists are afraid to support Julian Assange? @BBCNews @EvanHD
Good news for Julian Assange, Quito's new airport to open 12 October!
My tweet misinterpreted. Obvs I'd like Assange to answer allegations & clear his name but I understand why he's taken such drastic action
I imagine right now Julian Assange is trying on a Sombrero & saying "Meet Julio Assanchez!" to unimpressed Ecuadorian officials.
my short piece on Assange: Leaker unplugged. I wonder if he's really in the embassy at all http://www.economist.com/node/21557312
You need to follow @DowningStCat. his #assange updates are almost as funny as his post-match #euro2012 reports for 'Dave'
It is absolutely not true that Julian Assange got twitter to fall over so that he could sneak out of the Ecuadorean embassy for a latte.
Odd that free-speech advocate Assange would seek asylum with #Ecuador, known under Pres Correa for suppressing speech. http://trib.al/L1tK6c
Guardian homepage illustrating Julian Assange story with photo of a Ferrero Rocher... Well, I laughed.
Five embassy escape options for Julian Assange. More Johnny English than Jason Bourne. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/jun …
Advice for #Assange escape: order a pizza and escape as delivery boy via @guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/jun …
Why is everyone focused on how will #Assange exit Ecuadorian embassy, rather than on his reasons for seeking political asylum? #Lateline
Rebuttal 2 recent Guardian's incredible fact-wrong articles on Assange, asylum & extradt. issues ongoing in http://ferrada-noli.blogspot.it #WikiLeaks
I would like to set the record straight. I didn't post bail for Julian Assange. You should know by now that the media can be very inaccurate
When the embassy stunt fails expect Assange, slung over the shoulders of muscular friend, to be swung into St Paul’s shouting “thanctuary!”
@jacob_99 Don’t you think that many Assange supporters are misogynistic?
@bally968 Not just them, though. Philip Knightley, that Greenwald bloke in America and many more.
I find the Assangeophilesâ complete lack of concern for the Swedish womenâs right to justice, utterly extraordinary.
@insidestories Guardian would fight/campaign if US tried to extradite Assange for cablegate. Our editor is on record saying same.
It is interesting 2 compare US media coverage of Chinese dissident C. Guangcheng when he took refuge in the US embassy & that of #Assange.
That @alexhern has just pointed out that Assange living in the broom cupboard of the Ecuadorian embassy forever has great sitcom potential.
Hi @Jemima_Khan I'm a reporter with the PA. Would you like to react to Assange breaching his bail conditions?
@suzanne_moore Hear, hear! And to me too. Knew (and wrote) they were both wrong 'uns from the start...
@DeborahJaneOrr @VictoriaPeckham I never met him. Did you?
Quite a feat to move from Messiah to Monty Python, but good old Julian Assange seems to have managed it. Next Timbuktu? #Assange
I really want all those bloggers/telegraph types who said I was nasty about DSK and Assange to man up and apologise.
Julian Assange, Chris Brown and Mike Tyson are party of the same depressing tapestry of hatred towards women http://bit.ly/LjSKZI
Would feel more sympathy for assange sups if they recognised that it's just poss 2 women claim assange assaulted them have human rights too
@DavidAllenGreen no commercial airline would carry him. Risk of being fined. Good question about diplomatic car tho he is now a fugitive...
A niggling question that went unanswered yesterday: has any of us actually seen Assange in that embassy?
Even if Ecuador does grant assange asylum don't see how he gets there. His future is either in the embassy or arrest for fleeing bail
Transfer news latest. Assange to Ecuador for £240,000.
Does anyone think Julian Assange isn't enjoying all this?
A useful contribution to deficit reduction: £240,000 from Assange tax on credulity & anti-Americanism.
Meanwhile, the latest on Assange: he's hiding up a tree. Or in a ditch. Or in an embassy. Quite hard to keep up, actually. #Assange
Some irony in #Assange seeking asylum in country with second worst free speech record in Latin America (acc to HRW) http://bit.ly/LdiDwf
I bet Assange is stuffing himself full of flattened guinea pigs. He really is the most massive turd.
Fly Me To Cuba! (Or Ecaudaor) Julian Assange hijacks WikiLeaks - my first draft take on the latest on this strage tale http://bit.ly/LzXRTY
And @Jemima_Khan, on hook for #Assange's bail, *not* told of his flight to Ecuador embassy, see http://bit.ly/LColT0 . Shameful.
@BriW74 Don't you think Assange is looking a bit peaky?
Seems Assange didn't warn people who put up his bail he was going to breach: https://twitter.com/Jemima_Khan/st … – crappy way to repay a good deed.
Doesn't matter if Julian Assange hasn't been formally charged: he should go to Sweden and answer allegations. Ludicrous to argue otherwise
Seems like Assange's supporters did not expect him to skip bail? Really? Who has this guy not let down?
Horrifying how many on Left do not think allegations of rape and sexual assault should not be properly dealt with, because it is #Assange.
#Assange's plight seems reminiscent of the scene in Monty Python where the knights think to storm the castle using a giant badger
I think we can safely say that Julian Assange's bid to run the world has faltered. A bit.
Jack of Kent - the desperation of Julian Assange: http://bit.ly/LClx8o #Assange #Ecuador
So I emerge from Kiev fanzone to discover that Julian #Assange has sought asylum at Ecuador embassy. Why not Russia? #wikileaks
Journalists: Respect accuracy. Julian Assange has not been charged with a crime in any country, except a reported US sealed indictment.
@ggreenwald Also, let's not forget, what he is fleeing is extradition over sexual allegations in Sweden.
Total bail bond on Julian Assange is £200,000 in cash. The high-profile supporters who posted it may now never see it again.
The serious downside of the #Assange situation is having to watch his risible Russia Today show for research purposes
Ecuador appears to have an extradition treaty with United States: http://bit.ly/9AjQr5 . Whoopsy. #Assange
@jeremyduns @cllr_mikeharris @mePadraigReidy It's just amazing Jeremy, he collaborates with the last dictatorship in Europe and is a hero
Wonder what those well-meaning sorts who stood #Assange bail now think of his latest ploy to evade due process.
Some people will go to any lengths to avoid the Olympics. #Assange
I like to think that #Assange chose the Ecuadorean embassy because it's so convenient for Harrods http://bit.ly/LcMsNd
Exile in the Galapagos Islands? RT @jeffjarvis: Oy RT @arusbridger: #assange reported inside Ecuadorian Embassy in London seeking asylum....
Will Chen Guangcheng case upset US-China relations? Only if #China decides so. US has no choice but to grant asylum to persecuted dissident.
To me Assange looks unaccountable, paranoid, controlling and prone to blame others for his mistakes. #wikileaks
Why does Assange still have so much uncritical support? Seems to me he's acting like a tinpot dictator. #wikileaks http://bit.ly/oZUqOb