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2010-12-17 Down Under

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Posted by anon1 2010-12-17 18:14|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 I was never sure what color tripe is but now I know: YELLOW!

Posted by twobyfour 2010-12-17 18:44|| 2010-12-17 18:44|| Front Page Top

#2 like you speak for all Australians, twit. Ask Grunter.

Posted by Frank G 2010-12-17 18:49|| 2010-12-17 18:49|| Front Page Top

#3 Espionage would be an American charge. He's guilty. Your tongue baths are tiresome

Posted by Frank G 2010-12-17 18:50|| 2010-12-17 18:50|| Front Page Top

#4 FYI his leaked (ooooh praise be to transparency!) emails show that he's a creepy stalker

Posted by Frank G 2010-12-17 19:02|| 2010-12-17 19:02|| Front Page Top

#5 US Federal laws broken are 18 U.S.C. 793(e) and 18 U.S.C. 641.

Posted by wr 2010-12-17 19:27|| 2010-12-17 19:27|| Front Page Top

#6 Frank: you think I don't speak for the vast majority of my countrymen?

Then check this out. Labour suffers in Wikileaks backlash - SMH.

Support for Labour plummeted 4 per cent on the news.

Posted by anon1 2010-12-17 19:33|| 2010-12-17 19:33|| Front Page Top

#7 oooooooh! 4%. I have a lot of respect for Australians in general. You?

not so much

Posted by Frank G 2010-12-17 19:45|| 2010-12-17 19:45|| Front Page Top

#8 wewill take our chances with the Chicoms

Assange is now our Aung San Suu Kyi.

anon1, I think your Vegemite has gone bad. Those two statements are strong contenders for the dumbest things ever said on the 'burg.

Hell, they'd be strong contenders for dumbest comments ever on lefty blogs.

Posted by Swamp Blondie 2010-12-17 20:14|| 2010-12-17 20:14|| Front Page Top

#9 keep him in custody till the US can ram through laws to convict him then extradite him from Sweden

Puleez. Our Congress can't even pass a goddam budget. Wat makes you think they can ram anything through short of a strap-on?

Posted by badanov 2010-12-17 20:28|| http://www.freefirezone.org 2010-12-17 20:28|| Front Page Top

#10 Good grief... have you shown this post (with your in-lines) to your parent or guardian? They may want your psychiatrist involved.

I'm not kidding: if you touch Assange ANZUS is dead and we will take our chances with the Chicoms and the Indos.

WHO appointed you spokesman? A family of mice? And on what planet did this occur??

Posted by Free Radical 2010-12-17 21:06|| 2010-12-17 21:06|| Front Page Top

#11 Since the US Constitution does not permit ex post facto laws, Assange will have to be charged with existing laws.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2010-12-17 21:20|| 2010-12-17 21:20|| Front Page Top

#12

I'm not kidding: if you touch Assange ANZUS is dead and we will take our chances with the Chicoms and the Indos.

If prosecution of the agent of enemy powers pisses off Australians so much, well, no loss.

(I betcha your sentiment is rare, though.)

Posted by Rob Crawford 2010-12-17 21:27|| 2010-12-17 21:27|| Front Page Top

#13 What's he really released.
Some embarrassing cables, not much more.
No earth shattering revelations that I've seen.
He's an irritant, not the grim reaper.

Posted by bigjim-CA 2010-12-17 21:27|| 2010-12-17 21:27|| Front Page Top

#14 So this "anon1" (coward) just lurves him a fellow who suborns treason, sells the information he gathered for profit, commits rape, and stalks underage girls?

Charming. Luckily we know that such amorality is rare.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2010-12-17 21:28|| 2010-12-17 21:28|| Front Page Top

#15 One of the cables mention an Algerian journalist (with full name) who told the US embassy about how election were rigged in Algeria.

Those people who rigged it are in power today. Now guess what will happen to the journalist?

That's Algeria, not Australia.

And that's just one case we know of.

BLOOD on his hands.

Posted by European Conservative 2010-12-17 22:13|| 2010-12-17 22:13|| Front Page Top

#16 Do not forget the names of the Nigerians and the Afghans.

Posted by newc 2010-12-17 22:56|| 2010-12-17 22:56|| Front Page Top

#17 A new law would be fine because this arrogant cod would continue to spew event after it was passed. Even so, just prosecute him under the espionage law. It's not the conviction that is important, it is the suffering. It will take a long, long time to sort it out. Discovery could take years.

Posted by rammer 2010-12-17 23:13|| 2010-12-17 23:13|| Front Page Top

#18 @newc

what do the lives of those little peasants matter in such a "noble cause"...

Posted by European Conservative 2010-12-17 23:16|| 2010-12-17 23:16|| Front Page Top

#19 Pretty anon1 (she's a girl, Rob) has already accepted the cost in lives of the Kenya revelations. What's a few more collaterals added to the list?

Posted by trailing wife 2010-12-17 23:22|| 2010-12-17 23:22|| Front Page Top

#20 I'm not kidding: if you touch Assange ANZUS is dead and we will take our chances with the Chicoms and the Indos.

Unless this is meant for Snark of the Day, it is *bleep*ing hilarious. How long do you think Assange would last in the PRC as an enemy of the state? Assuming he did not get a bullet behind the ear on day one, he would be festering in jail for life next to the winner of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize,

Posted by SteveS 2010-12-17 23:45|| 2010-12-17 23:45|| Front Page Top

#21 anon1, my dear, have you made your contribution to Fred yet? If not, you have just hijacked Rantburg, using it as your own personal blog.

Your opinions are yours, and opinions are a major part of Rantburg. But the verbiage you espouse, against your fellow Rantburgers, shouldn't come free.

Ante up or grow up --- we will listen to you, when we have some respect for you.

And since you have published your opinion piece, then it is open to analysis by your fellow Rantburgers, not just on content, but in the readability, the awareness of proper grammar usage and punctuation rules. Do we now longer capitalize the first letter of a country? Like Sweden? And sentences no longer begin with a capital letter? Very interrupting and irritating when reading your words.

You see, if you write an opinion piece, your stance is much stronger when you adhere to the writing practices that opinion writers use. Observing the rules of discourse, shows some thought, some judgement and some researching of facts that have gone into your opinion piece.

Losing your audience well, is just not good writing. I read so far, and between the distraction of the writing ability, I quit.

Just for information, for your next opinion piece in Rantburg, consider that you have an audience of an online community with an above average educational/work experience background than you will find in most online community.

This is known as Rantburg University and you are writing to the audience of Rantburg U.

You posted your opinion, actually screamed it. So, its open to discussion, not only on content, but the skills your use to bring authority to your opinions.

Maybe a mentor is needed, to get your writing skills up to standards that Rantburgers might be more willing to give you time in reading and discussing your thoughts.

There are formulas that tells lots about a persons writing skills. When writing an opinion piece, its extremely important that you first, write to your audience.

1. Your comments were written at a 9th grade reading level (that early high school for us). Not bad, considering the reading level of Rantburgers probably averages out at a high college level. For your information, the Gettysburg address came in at about 12th grade reading level. It was written on the back of a napkin, in a short period of time. (Google it its a big part of our American history)

2. Sentence complexity? You bombed, bottomed out. On a scale of 1-100, you got a 25....

3. Vocabulary complexity? Not so good in that arena either. Again, a scale of 1-100, you got a 25.

4. Convey your expertise of your subject..... My people... You own people? That gives me no confidence that you are an authority on the subject, so why should I even listen to you?

Follow some rules of the road when expressing your opinion you will gain more respect and your thoughts will be taken more seriously. Now, well my opinion of your posting? It's mine and I chose not to share it other than it was extremely difficult reading your posting.

Oh, and go hit that contribution button for Fred. You will be a better person just knowing you did so.

Posted by Sherry 2010-12-18 00:03|| 2010-12-18 00:03|| Front Page Top

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