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Wednesday, 7 March 2012
Ex-senator named by WikiLeaks as Australian Stratfor informant
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Bob Carr: Julian Assange and an Australian Charter of Rights
Okay.
And how do you explain the treatment of Julian Assange under European jurisdictions, that of the UK and Sweden?
The Swedish judge is prosecutor…yes, the two roles in the one officer, an outrage by Australian standards. The trial in Sweden was in secret, the public locked out. The charge includes rape but the sex was consensual. The victims have exchanged emails talking revenge and money.
Hang on. None of the above happens here. Would anyone disagree that Assange would be better off in an Australian court? In a system, that is, without a charter or a bill of rights?
I know the issue of the charter is dead here, with the ALP for the first time in decades having no platform commitment to a bill of rights and the Coalition having no advocate of a chart in its ranks.
Even those law school enthusiasts who supported the campaign might be given pause by this case which confirms that convention and common law and ethos in a country like Australia counts more than the bogus promise of a charter like in Europe.
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Charges against Assange drawn up in US, says email
Psychic TV - Hurry On Sundown (Hawkwind cover) @ Toff In Town, Melbourne (6th Mar 2012)
We have lots of wonderful footage of my face being peeled off, getting cheek implants, and my chest being split open to put in breasts. We can maybe make an art film out of it—for more limited audiences. We want to put the cost of each surgery in ticker tape on the bottom of the screen!PHOTO SET by Carbie Warbie
'There are no Homeless in Aceh, there are only Punks'
In early December 2011 64 music fans at a punk charity concert in Banda Aceh’s Tamen Budaya park were violently arrested by the Shari’ah police. The were not (and cannot) be charged with any crime but were forced to undergo religious education which included their heads being shaven and forced into the lake to bathe.
"The presence of the punk community is disturbing, and disrupts the life of the Banda Aceh public. This is a new social disease affecting Banda Aceh. If it is allowed to continue, the government will have to spend more money to handle them. Their morals are wrong. Men and women gather together, and that is against Islamic Shariah. We will keep conducting raids until they're all caught, then we'll bring them for re-education here. Aceh is a Shariah region. Everyone should obey it and the punk community is clearly against Shariah. This training will be an example in Indonesia of the re-education of the punks."
The religious police have threatened a continuation of arrests and re-education against the punks “until they are better.” When questioned about the targeting of punks due to their cleanliness the Police Chief justified the actions by drawing a distinction between them and “the clean punks that exist in different classes.” Asked why the police aren’t then targeting the homeless he stated “there are no homeless in Aceh, there are only punks.”
The Governor of Aceh has denied that the punks were even arrested saying, “the truth is that police are helping them develop (their skills).”
Human Rights Watch have pointed out the multitude of ways the authorities have abused the rights fo the detainees including the violation of freedom or expression and not receiving proper legal treatment. They are understandably concerned that this treatment will continue unless the case is processed legally.
"What did we do to deserve arresting? We didn't steal and we didn't bother anyone. The punk community in Banda Aceh is not involved with criminality. So what's the crime that justifies us being brought to this camp? This country hasn't yet made it illegal to express yourself, right?"
James Ball on the WikiLeaks/Stratfor cache
A cache of more than 5m emails taken from an attack on the company's servers in December 2011 is currently being published by WikiLeaks, but the indictment documents reveal that straight after the attack, Sabu offered an FBI-owned server to store the cache – which was quickly accepted.
"btw I started unpacking on [CW-1]'s new server," an online identity alleged to be Hammond notes.
This not only gave the FBI access to review or even potentially amend the cache, but also an inside track on Anonymous' discussions on how to use the documents, and potentially – though not revealed within the files unsealed to date – conversations between Anonymous and WikiLeaks.
The US department of justice has convened a grand jury investigation into WikiLeaks, based in Virginia. If through Sabu or information he had gleaned from other Anons the US could glean any evidence to tie Julian Assange to hacking attacks on US soil, such as Stratfor, the case for extradition would be substantially strengthened.
The extent of communication between WikiLeaks and Anonymous regarding the Stratfor leak is currently unknown.
Throughout the logs detailed in the indictments published to date, the informer talks to other hackers in the room, at one stage even proposing publishing private password details: "Wanna release that list of 92% cracked stratfor hashes?" he asks. "Hrm, your call..." the defendent replies. "I'd err on the side of no, so that way we can more fully exploit."
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