Julian Assange meltsdown in epic fracture with Barrett Brown & WikiLeaks
 

Julian Assange is imploding epically I love it! He can leave the Ecuadorian Embassy and anytime he wanted to but he's choosing to stay there virtually cut off from the world I love it I love watching him suffer and slowly degrade mentally more than he already was. He deserves all he's getting.

“I have been increasingly vocal about my growing distaste for WikiLeaks in general and Julian Assange in particular, largely due to his close and ongoing involvement with fascist entities, his outright lies about his role in the last U.S. election, and his willingness to have others tell similar lies on his behalf,"

Julian Assange meltsdown in epic fracture with Barrett Brown & WikiLeaks


A botched power play by Julian Assange has led to a split within a key organization supporting whistleblowers and leaves the WikiLeaks founder more isolated than ever among his core constituency of radical transparency activists.

Assange has grown furious at a one-time ally with substantial moral authority within their movement: the journalist and activist Barrett Brown.

Since his release from federal prison on trumped-up charges related to a major corporate hack, Brown been increasingly public in voicing disgust at Assange’s embrace of Donald Trump and his general comfort with the nationalist right. That has led Assange, an erstwhile transparency advocate and whistleblower champion, to retaliate.

“I have been increasingly vocal about my growing distaste for WikiLeaks in general and Julian Assange in particular, largely due to his close and ongoing involvement with fascist entities, his outright lies about his role in the last U.S. election, and his willingness to have others tell similar lies on his behalf,” Brown told The Daily Beast. “I have also continued to support his rights against the state and private organizations that have pursued him from the very beginning, when his original mission of ethical transparency was still in play.”

Assange had a lever against Brown. Brown has received financial backing from the Courage Foundation, a whistleblower protection group. Courage operates WikiLeaks’ legal defense fund, which is increasingly important to Assange amid rumors that Ecuador will soon evict Assange from its London embassy, where he has lived since 2012 following a since-shuttered rape investigation in Sweden and possible interest in Assange from U.S. special counsel Robert Mueller. Mueller, as part of his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, last week subpoenaed an alleged backchannel between Assange and Trump consigliere Roger Stone.

While Assange has no formal role on Courage, multiple knowledgeable sources said he continues to exert informal influence over it. Assange co-founded what would become the group and was an initial trustee. In May 2017, Courage formally took on WikiLeaks as a beneficiary.

On Thursday, three Courage trustees aligned with Assange instructed Courage’s widely respected director, Naomi Colvin, to cut off Brown. According to a new statement Colvin has posted on Medium, the trustees explicitly based their reasoning on “‘nasty adversarial remarks’ about WikiLeaks” Brown has made.

Colvin rejected the retaliation on principle. But they persisted, instructing her to work out getting rid of Brown expeditiously.

On Sunday, Courage trustee Susan Benn, who came to Courage from the Julian Assange Defense Fund, informed Brown that Courage will no longer represent him.

“You have made a number of hostile and denigrating statements about other Courage beneficiaries who are facing grave legal and personal risks,” Benn wrote in an email acquired by The Daily Beast. “Courage expects solidarity and mutual aid from its beneficiaries, especially when those among you face extreme uncertainty and danger; and Courage as an organisation cannot afford to be conflicted because of the conflicting interests of others. Moreover, your own criminal proceedings have concluded and you were released from prison almost two years ago.” (Chelsea Manning, it’s worth noting, remains a Courage beneficiary despite being released from prison in May 2017.)

Brown told The Daily Beast: “I’m afraid I cannot agree with the stance, presented by the Courage board to me yesterday via a poorly written email, that I am somehow obligated to not only defend Assange’s rights, as I’m happy to do, but also to refrain from speaking out about the problems facing a movement that I risked a hundred years of prison time in order to defend.”

But the retaliation came with a price for Assange. It prompted a split within Courage, complete with at least one outraged resignation: Colvin, the director of the organization. A transition in staff may be underway, knowledgeable sources said.

The short-term result of Assange’s behavior may be to consolidate control over Courage. But it has come at the expense of broken ties with two heavily respected and influential figures within the hacktivist circles from which Assange emerged. At this point, it leaves Assange with more solid support from the extreme right and its media organs than from his original community.

“Courage supports our beneficiaries because they have spoken out, at great risk to themselves, in order to make the world a better place,” Colvin wrote in a statement. “I am fundamentally and implacably opposed to excluding anyone from beneficiary status on the basis of their political speech, and still more when that comes out of responding angrily to being baited on Twitter.”

Colvin’s statement anticipates a line of attack she is likely to face by WikiLeaks’ remaining supporters and hints at the raw emotions within the transparency community where Assange is concerned.

“In resigning from Courage on a fundamental point of principle, I am not ‘turning against WikiLeaks’ or ‘abandoning Julian in his hour of greatest peril,’” Colvin continues in the statement. “I remain absolutely, unambiguously opposed to the withdrawal of Julian Assange’s asylum and the prospect of his extradition to the United States. I do, however, have acute concerns about the way advocacy on this issue is developing.”

Losing the Courage money won’t be a significant financial blow for Brown.

“Courage, though a fine organization staffed by extraordinary people, has provided me with something along the lines of $3,500 out of the total $14,000 that was donated to me since FreeBB [the Free Barrett Brown legal-defense fund] was incorporated into that organization,” Brown said. “Assange and close associates have nonetheless chosen to publicly imply that I am somehow indebted to Assange for having made me a beneficiary after I’d already been sentenced.”

But Assange’s allies at Courage, sources said, didn’t try to argue that Brown no longer needs the money. They instead made it clear they wanted Brown excommunicated for the sin of criticizing Assange and WikiLeaks—a move reflecting a willingness to become a cudgel for Assange, despite Courage’s lofty principles.

Colvin’s departure from Courage is especially ironic for Assange and speaks to the botched manner in which his allies retaliated against Brown. Colvin led and recently won a fight to prevent the U.K. from extraditing the computer scientist and activist Lauri Love to the United States to face hacking charges. With Assange ostensibly fearing his own prospective extradition, his desire to silence Brown has cost him a key legal asset.

The Assange-Brown falling out is simultaneously predictable and astonishing.

It is predictable because Assange’s ego for years has prompted him to publicly condemn ally after ally for minute infractions, usually encouraging a horde of trolls to harass targets and police deviations from a narrative of glory for WikiLeaks. Last year, as The Daily Beast first reported, a formerly crucial source of support and funding for WikiLeaks, the influential Freedom of the Press Foundation, cut ties, in part because of disillusionment with Assange. As well, Brown’s extensive, National Magazine Award-winning body of writing demonstrates an inability to resist subjecting lordly figures like Assange to abrasive examination and ridicule.

Wasn’t mueller one of the people that testified there were WMD’s in Iraq?

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Whistleblower
noun. BrE /ˈwɪsl bləʊə(r)/ ; NAmE /ˈwɪsl bloʊər/ (used especially in newspapers) a person who informs people in authority or the public that the company they work for is doing something wrong or illegal. See whistle-blower in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary.

Exposing facts from whistleblowers is crime to protect itself.

Fuck you you dont decide the tipic just because you started the thread. People here talk what they want to talk about when they eant,or did you just sign up today?

Sorry bro, but the gfy police has made a decision. If you want to appeal, you need the correct triggers.

No matter how corrupt or compromised someone is, to wish harm on another human being is pretty telling about your own suffering.

The guy is into condomless threesomes. I'm with him.

Bladewire hates freedom, people who expose extreme corruption and whistleblowers exposing high level criminal activities against citizens (NSA spying on everyone).
Bladewire hates humanity.

Avmccount created in 2008

First post 10 years later in 2018

47 out of your 47 posts in 10 years, were created this year.

You pop back an alt right hate fake nic troll. Another pruchased it hacked fake nic for the alt right troll.

Your English reading comprehension sucks.

I did not say I hope he suffers. I did not wish harm on him.

I said I like watching him suffer. I said he's getting what he deserves.

Fuck off cunt :thumbsup

You're a foreigner that hates Americans, American culture & Hollywood, yet you come on GFY and speak our language to put us all down every chance you get.

The only people you like and defend our people that are against Americas best interest :321GFY

The topic is: Julian Assange meltsdown in epic fracture with Barrett Brown & WikiLeaks

I know reality is difficult for you when your idols fail and other idols impload but you live in reality and whether or not you accept it your card house is tumbling down stupid cunt.

FYI Hillary isnt president, you guys have to find a new boogie man.

The topic is... shut the fuck up you little bitch.

Idiot...

He's cute but dumb, not an original though in his pretty little dick :1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Nice try.

- She's well funded
- Well connected
- A globalist

I can assure you Hillary is never irrelevant even though she's not in the direct spot light.

Exactly, if there's one thing you can count on, it's that evil witch who will do her best to harm humanity, peace and freedom to quench her own sickening and obsessive thirst for power and control until the bitter end.

With her losing the presidency the world has really dodged a bullet though, that would have been WW3.

Aaaaw you're back to your safe space from 2 years ago.

Current reality sucks for you, that much is clear. With Trump & Assange imploding I don't blame you.

He is no useless so might as well send his ass back to the Usa

↑↑↑ Truth

Hey dipshit (BladeLiar) - Wiki leaks has never published information that wasn't 100% true and accurate. Why do you hate someone who exposes corruption?

Oh right, your hero is Barry Obama, who prosecuted more whistle blowers than ALL OTHER PRESIDENTS COMBINED.

When will you realize that YOU are the fascist commie and a total libtard?

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but the pic is nicely done :1orglaugh :thumbsup

I highly recommend the book "This Machine Kills Secrets"

It was written several years ago, but it shows that even back then there was serious conflict within Wikileaks, which caused major members to split and form other groups. Much of that conflict was based on Assange's ego. It's a fascinating read.