The Freaks

Let us make one thing perfectly clear: Julian Assange is a freak. This fact must be firmly established or what follows will not be understood or appreciated.

This Wikileaks founder has led a roller coaster ride all of his life that is now on a steep downward turn. He’s on the run all the time trying to dodge allegations of rape and he is facing a situation where the walls are closing in. He is, even as I write this, hiding out in England pursuing asylum in Switzerland. The British are not actively pursuing him but will apprehend him if he is seen in the public. His own conscience hounds him doggedly.

Assange is of course the force behind intelligence leaks vexing world leaders. He was never a “regular Joe” and this is true now more than ever. He rarely sleeps in the same place for more than a few days. He trusts few people and never answers his own cell phone-he has aides do it. For anyone new to meet him, they must go through a labyrinth of road blocks before actually seeing him. He maintains a bunker mentality much like Bin Laden.

Stranger still is that his life is full of oxymoronical ironies. A simple question that begs to be answered is whether anyone is their right mind would trust him with a secret.Is there anyone who would? He is so hard up for friends even PayPal won’t allow him to collect donations through their site any more.

Most ironic of all his contradictions is how he- a strong proponent of exposing secrets at any cost- is so anxious to keep his deeds and his whereabouts a secret. To expose him, to hunt him down, to bring him to justice, to show everyone his warts should be no less than he demands of the world.

In like manner, Rep. Charlie Rangel(D-NY) was convicted by a jury of his peers of tax evasion and ten other counts and after two years of this, all he gets is a public shaming and a slap on the wrist. Others would get cuffs. He is tax cheat and formerly served as ranking member on the committee that makes tax laws.  He broke laws that would land most people in jail yet still he wanders the halls of Congress without fear of real prosecution. Of those that know better, more should be expected.  Unless there is accountability, there will never be real change in the world today from the Rangels an the Assanges of this world.

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This article was written December 4th, 2010.

Julian Assange was arrested early morning, December 7th.