Julian Assange is now officially a columnist for a Swedish Newspaper, part of the effort to get Wikileaks some safe harbor under Sweden’s laws protecting journalists. Does this mean that the bitching from “real journalists” will end now, or do we have to wait until his mom sews his “real journalist” merit badge onto his sash? And will Aftonbladet will have to use journalism warning labels on editions that contain an Assange column?No, I'm sure plenty of Village types will keep calling for his assassination. The larger question is why Assange didn't make the list of History's Greatest Monsters As Determined By Wingers, but then I remember they did limit the choices to just Americans for this one. I remember when Jimmy Carter stole the sun and held the world hostage for months without light and heat, the bastard.
No doubt a global list will soon be coming so that we have some justification to point to when we inevitably reach the tipping point in the Village propaganda biltz and choose to invade Sweden rather than have Assange loose to post things on the net and possibly kill all of us.
How, I'm not sure, but we can't take the risk, clearly.
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