| December 1st, 2010 |
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You know, it's kind of infuriating to see certain people abusing the whole thing of rape accusation and how it should be taken seriously for patently bullshit purposes. All else aside, like the injustice done to the man concerned, it's very, very bad for the credibility of women in general when it comes to such things.
Of course, they were planning to smear Assange anyway, and now his name keeps coming up in news reports as "suspected rapist". Nicely done.
For the first time ever, discussing a story related to such topics, Chas asked me if I'd actually read the details of the accusation. I said no, that's the kind of thing I tend to avoid looking up.
Good idea, he acknowledged, and then, for this instance, told me the details.
"Wait," I said. "That counts?"
Bah.
Dear world governments:
This does not, in fact, make us think the leaks were faked.
If you don't want to get caught, don't do this shit.
Love,
The actual world.
("But it was just internal communiques," they say. "It was candid discussion!"
Well, obviously. But you see, you don't speak candidly about sensitive diplomatic areas in any way that could ever be proved against you. You speak in mutually understood codes. You speak in person. If you speak in any form of writing, you shred, burn, or delete that shit as soon as you've read it, because it should never exist in any provable form in any quantity that can't be dismissed as an aberration, unusual, the opinion of one person who by the way has been transferred to another department we swear, and if you can't manage that, then you are going to get burned, somehow, at some point. Welcome to the world of diplomacy; it is not the place for people who feel the need to be candid about anything, ever, at all. Real diplomats aren't candid about anything.)
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