The word ‘narcissist’ was used against Assange by Janet Albrechtsen this morning as it was never used against Peter Costello, the ‘sado-narcissist’ (my coinage), or Margaret Thatcher, or Baz Luhrman, or Christopher Pyne, or Madonna; or, indeed, the lovely, slender, long-necked Janet Albrechtsen whom Rhys Muldoon so wants to fuck, and me too, sometimes, I ween.
Narcissism is what you should be killed for, she implies. This beast Assange wants only praise for what he’s done, relentlessly seeks publicity and says he’s a truth-teller but doesn’t want the truth to come out of ‘what really happened’ between him and the two Swedish women because, well, he’s a rapist, isn’t he, he must be, or he’d turn up in Sweden for his trial and sentencing.
And how would that trial be fair? How could it be? She has just prejudiced every jury in the known world.
The facts, as she well knows, are that the ‘sex by surprise’ woman, AA, slept naked beside him for three more nights, threw a party in honour of him and offered to be his unpaid secretary for life. The other, WS, the ‘raped me without a condom’ one, had had sex with him twice that same night, protested the condomless conjunction but did not forbid it, and tried to link up with him for eight more days wanting an ongoing affair with him.
This is the truth of the matter, uncontested by either side, and Albrechtsen, lying, says it is not known. And the girls therefore have no case. And she says they do. And this is why he has never been arrested, because they have no case. And she says they do.
And it is not the truth Assange fears but being tortured and killed.
He fears he will be given up to the US by Sweden and in a US prison treated as his informant Bradley Manning is being treated. In a six-by-nine cell, isolated from other humans, with loud music and bright flashing lights and freezing and frying temperatures and nothing to read, Manning is looking forward to sixty more years of the same and Assange, correctly, is not too keen to be treated likewise; or assassinated as Albrechtsen’s colleagues Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity and, presumably, Rupert Murdoch wants him to be.
It is clear, then, to any reasonable person that Albrechtsen is lying with her every breath and hates Assange because he does stand for truth, and publish it, and I invite her to sue me for saying this.
Or to debate me anywhere, any time.
Name:
Bob, at least you have warned Albrechtsen that you want to fuck her, so there will be no ‘sex by surprise’.
So Bob, you deny that you are part of the “entourage of adoring, useful idiots” that surround him eh?
There are quite a few listed according to Albrehtsen so you are in good company.
What will happen to Assange when or if Ecuador rejects his bid for asylum?
Hasn’t he breached his bail conditions and can be arrested now if he steps outside?
His options are fast running out.
Lets hope he can find a suitable refuge in Ecuador where he can start up a Wikileaks website to monitor Ecuador’s Human Rights violations or its off for a new fitting of orange overalls and the naughty corner at Guantameno Bay for him.
So…do you think he is guilty of something? Anything?
What?
Or are you just enjoying the idea that he is undergoing anxiety, and unable to do his work?
Say which.
Well here is a suprise Frank, granted, from Wikipedia, but nevertheless, what would you expect the relations between the U.S. and Ecuador look like?
“….estimated 150,000-200,000 Ecuadorians living in the United States and by 24,000 U.S. citizens visiting Ecuador annually, and by approximately 15,000 U.S. citizens residing in Ecuador.”
Also Peacecorp, “sizeable” is the word I think was used to describe it, over a 100 US Businesses on the ground over there etc.
But let us have Assange carry all of that Human Rights guff on his shoulders alone will we?
We could just nail him to a cross, and satisfy both sides of the argument at the one time, retribution and revenge, and throw in a slow death to boot, and martyrdom for the bleeding hearts.
He is alone on this, Ellis may be doing him a disfavour in trumpeting his cause.
Frank, I thought Sweden may have a stricter, less rosy outlook on Ecuador and its Human Rights violations. Especially as Sweden is often paraded as being a forward thinking nation, but alas, no, in fact they have recently welcomed and promoted Ecuador for a more favourable handling by European nations in regards to trade etc through the GSP+ program. Sri Lanka just got a knock back by the US for the same program, but Ecuador seems good to go.
Sweden has two embassies in Ecuador in matter of fact.
That should read EU knocked back Sri Lanka, not US.
“Lets hope he can find a suitable refuge in Ecuador where he can start up a Wikileaks website to monitor Ecuador’s Human Rights violations….”
Perhaps that is exactly his plan, which country in the West could not would not support him if he exposes Ecuador in such a way?
Despite Ecuador being on the Human Rights Watch list,its corruption is well known, I will have to have a look which countries refuse to trade with Ecuador or have cut their diplomatic relations with Ecuador, I’ll see what I can find and get back to you Frank.
Well to begin with, Australia seems ok with Ecuador.
http://www.dfat.gov.au/geo/ecuador/ecuador_brief.html
ALBRECHTSEN calling Assange a “narcissist”, ROFLMS/fmd!
allthumbs, stop typing with one finger..
I’m not sure as to what you are alluding to Paul, but believe me I use all my fingers, it just comes out like I’m using one, and a thumb at that.
I would suggest an edit of your reference to that former Play School presenter’s sexual proclivities before he reads it himself and stops answering your phone calls. You shoot yourself in the foot so routinely and then ponder from whence the assassin’s bullet emanated.
No, he’s quite public about it. It’s his way of annoying pretty left-wing women at dinner parties.
And yet, I struggle to imagine somehow that you would be quite as flippant if Gerard Henderson were to glibly muse in his columns about his fantasies of gang-banging Annabel Crabb, as a means of trivialising her opinions. If Julie/Julia taught me anything about women, it’s that they don’t really respond to that kind of patronising, aggressive sexual posturing.
So…I should be nicer to Janet Albrechtsen, who wants a great man killed?
As she did, once, Mandela?
I’m no fan of Albrechsten, but you can make that point just as effectively and with the same brio without musing about wanting to “fuck” her – a redundant piece of information, unnecessarily aggressive, and which ultimately debases your intent.
I want to fuck Ted Lapkin.
Form an orderly queue.
While you are both fucking Lapkin, serially or together, ask him about Rick Perry – he never did get back to me about his reply to me with the claim that Perry would be the next US President.
Ted Lapkin, sure. Ted Lapkin in high boots and a velvet dogcollar even more so. But Janet? Rhys, you disgust me. Next Bob will be telling us you want to root Pru Goward as well.
For. Shame.
R1, do you fancy Lapkin, the American? I can understand men being enarmoured by Albrectsen, don’t you?
No way, Helvi, and I feel very strongly on this issue. Physical attraction to Janet Albrechtson is flat out wrong and just plain weird. Lapkin, at least, would be cuddly.
“Each to his own”, said the old woman as she kissed the cow . . .
Tell it to Rhys. He’s the old woman.
Good to see you two girls getting on better. Isn’t it better to argue the issues, and not (necessarily) whether we like each other or not?
DQ, How are you going with your girl…?
She is somewhere in the world, Helvi. Probably mid Pacific about now.
As for blogs, she really isn’t interested enough to bother most of the time, even when in Australia.
Get fucked, Doug. Seriously.
Thanks for the offer; I need laying.
In highschool, me and my girlfriends had a saying – better between your thighs than mine. Maybe I should have specified. Go fuck yourself.
I hope this is meant with some kind of affection borne of familiarity perhaps. Because from an outsider’s perspective it could seem fairly ill mannered to the point where others reading these pages might not be prepared to tolerate it.
Others reading these pages can get fucked. Doug was being lethally patronising and you’re being a tosser.
HG, it seems she’d rather we both be “tossers”
To Reader1, I apologise if I appeared patronising. I really do hope for a friendlier atmosphere on this blog.
Patronising is patronising. You have to be a certain sort of person to do it, it’s got nothing to do with intent. I don’t enjoy being lied about and having baseless accusations made of me and I especially don’t like being called a prostitute. I never lied about others and my accusations have always been baseful, so what you hope for in this blog does not affect my priorities as long as I stay within those parameters. I am not meaningless, I retain a thread of continuity in regards to events so step off, bitch.
And Hudson – try that on again and I will accelerate the end of days just for your benefit. Bitch.
You are spreading ‘narcissist’ fairly thinly with those examples Bob.
And yet you left off the world’s greatest example, President Goldman Sachs himself, Barack “It’s all About Me” Obama.
You will not have read his books then, or worked in his office.
Please say if you have. It is impossible for a narcissist to write as well as that.
If you have not read at least one half of one book I ask you to withdraw it.
Do not test me.
“It is impossible for a narcissist to write as well as that”
Well maybe Bill Ayers is NOT a narcissist then?
It’s not very funny. Dreams From My Father is as great an American book as Gatsby, Catcher In The Rye, To Kill A Mockingbird, or The Education of Henry Adams.
To the best of my belief Barack Obama, a great man and in other theatres a great wordsmith, wrote it.
Go bag your head.
I give you a most revealing portrait of a journalist clearly committed to transparency: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/columnists/janet-albrechtsen
It appears Janet welcomes of the gaze of Muldoon, Ellis and others.
*head desk* / *head board*
And Clinton was… misunderstood?
…hoisted on manufactured piety.
Albrechtsen began thus: “NARCISSISTS saturate our media.” She should have just stopped with that confession.
When I was just a lowly backbencher,
I asked my backers, what will I be?
Will I be just? Will I be fair?
Here’s what they said to me.
Hey Tony, Tony,
Whatever will be, will be,
The future’s not ours, to see,
Hey Tony, Tony.
When Turnbull fell, I stepped up,
No one was prepared for the lies ahead,
Say no to rainbows, say no to gays,
Say no to anything red.
Hey Tony, Tony,
Whatever will be, will be
The future’s not ours, to see
Hey Tony, Tony.
I tried to bring Thompson down,
and then Slipper, Oh how I did bleat,
Time it has passed, I knew it wouldn’t last,
Perhaps it is time to flee?
Hey Tony, Tony
Whatever will be, will be
The future’s not ours, to see
Tony, Tony.
Doris Day might have trouble with the first line, but then it all fits together well. But I think :
“A, S S, H O, L E : I’m an asshole” would be a better fit for our Tony.
The Jingle is Dead! Long Live the Jingle!
Very good, William Soil, I’m really enjoying your poetry…
I haven’t produced anything for months, nor picked up the camera.
Thanks to Mr Ellis for providing me with a commission of sorts, I’ve enjoyed writing these past few days very much.
Elsewhere I have described Assange as a “lebenskunstler”, for the drones such as myself or Albrechtsen you can see why they would insist on Assange being narcisstic, what he does, is a slap in the face to an ordinary existence, a kick in the arse to the humdrum day in day out thing we do (I’m not including anyone its just easier to write it this way). He is an Emersonian man, a Thoreaun man. Self Reliance writ large, that is why he can walk away from his bond backers. You can take on the whole world and maybe win, who wants that reported in the newspapers, who wants that on the front page of The Sun or SMH?
He writes about his connection to the computer and where “…reaching past all local concerns to an infinity point where selfhood dissolves into history, Later on, the question of selfhood, or my selfhood, would come to obsess many sections of the press. Was I arrogant or crazy, careless or manipulative, touch or thin-skinned or tyrannical? But the self they were talking about was in their heads. It was part of their fantasy. I was trying to do my work under pressure and wasn’t much aware of myself at all, not in the sense they mean. People nowadays love the play of selfhood: they think everything is a soap opera. But I mean what I say when I say my “self” lies somewhere behind me: with a computer, and a lifetime’s project, you no longer find yourself chasing from pillar to post the small business of yourself. You disappear into something larger and you serve it as best as you can”
From his unauthorised autobiography.
“you DISAPPEAR into something larger”
Read the letters of Van Gogh, an almost thoroughly unlikeable, prickly character, it is the same thing.
Nietszche would have liked him.
Drones these days sound very much like lawn mowers don’t they?
That’s the problem in today’s day and age, too many tall poppy’s, not enough weed control and one just cannot make out the garden from the self seeding rabble.
It’s the noise that does my head in though. Strewth.
Arha !
The lawnmowers go round the prickly pear, the prickly pear, prickly pear
The lawnmowers go round the prickly pear,
at three o clock in the morning.
Prickly Pear can grow in a desert as well though William.
What are you saying? One cannot have a garden in the desert?
It’s all a mirage?
My badly made point was sometimes the veracity of the weed, the infection, the outliers; makes fighting against them futile. Soon enough one has to make the best of the situation.
How do you stop a cane toad? You can’t.
One man’s cane toad is another man’s hat.
Sorry William I got the wrong end of your prickly pear, so to speak.
The wrong end of my Opuntia robusta
Good to see your dick is still way ahead of your brain at the age of seventy, Bukowski would be amused.
I think there’s a false dichotomy in this issue – either the women are innocent and Julian’s a sex fiend, or it’s a government-level conspiracy.
There are plenty of other options – for example, the accusers are after fame, the accusers feel used and want revenge, rivals want to embarrass him, etc.
Perhaps apply Ockham’s razor to the US conspiracy theory. Why wouldn’t the US government just extradite him from the UK?
Because the Cameron Government would fall if they did. Their coalition partners the Liberal Democrats, already in the gun for joining with the Tories in the trashing of the universities and the starving of the poor, would walk out of the government and bring Cameron down.
And they have already told him this.
The Liberal Democrats are civil libertarians and on Assange’s side.
Ask any branch meeting in, say, Islington. Or Oxford. Or Penzance.