India's Mayawati: "Wikileaks founder has gone mad... needs to be in a mental asylum"
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[quote=BBC]The chief minister of India's Uttar Pradesh state has said the founder of the whistleblowing website Wikileaks "needs to be in a mental asylum".
[B]Ms Mayawati did not name Julian Assange in her statement[/B] but said that he was either working with her political opponents or had "gone mad".
The outburst follows reports, based on leaked US diplomatic cables, that she sent an empty private jet to collect a pair of sandals from Mumbai (Bombay).
She flatly denied the reports.
Ms Mayawati said the charge was [B]"mischievous, baseless, wrong and shameless".[/B]
A BBC correspondent in Delhi says [B]Ms Mayawati's outburst is not out of character - in the past, she has often used strong and offensive language against her critics and political opponents.[/B]
But she is also is an icon to millions of low-caste Dalits (formerly untouchables) who are mostly poor and deprived. Uttar Pradesh, which she presides over, is one of the poorest states in India and also its most populous.
'Anti-Dalit mindset'
[B]"The owner of Wikileaks has gone mad or he has joined hands with our opposition parties to malign my government,"[/B] Ms Mayawati told a press conference broadcast live on Indian television.
[B]"I request the government of his country to send him to a mental asylum and in case they are all full, I will make space for him in the mental asylum in [the city of] Agra," she said.[/B]
She also said he had "an anti-Dalit mindset".
The claims about Ms Mayawati were revealed in cables marked confidential and recently released by Wikileaks. They were dated 23 October 2008.
[B]One cable said that: "When she needed new sandals, her private jet flew empty to Mumbai to retrieve her preferred brand."
The cables added that the chief minister was paranoid about her security and "fears assassination" and employs "food tasters" to guard against poisoning. One of the releases described her as an "egomaniac".
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The cables also described her as "[B]obsessed with becoming Prime Minister".[/B]
[B]Ms Mayawati has long been the centre of controversy for building statues of herself and other Dalit icons, but she denies encouraging a personality cult.[/B]
She accuses her critics of conspiring against her.[/quote]
[URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-14800646"]Source[/URL]
I hate Assange with a passion but I can't take her as serious.
she sounds pretty crazy herself
Why hate Assange? You seem to be on the same level as that lady, boyo.
She's mad that he leaked her sending a private jet to pick up sandals
[IMG]http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c29/kalamari13/emot-qq-1.gif[/IMG][i]"A person did a thing that we don't like which makes us appear more transparent, someone remove him from earth please!"[/i][IMG]http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c29/kalamari13/emot-qq-1.gif[/IMG]
"building statues of herself and other Dalit icons, but she [b]denies encouraging a personality cult.[/b]"
And Assange is the crazy one?
They're both crazy :v:
[QUOTE=Swilly;32145767]They're both crazy :v:[/QUOTE]
I will agree with you when we have assange statues.
*built by him, not people who admire what he has done
[QUOTE=Contag;32145937]I will agree with you when we have assange statues.[/QUOTE]
Saddam Hussein and many other not-so-brilliant, not-that-humanitarian leaders in the past like him have had statues.
Your logic is very well received.
[editline]6th September 2011[/editline]
amongst crazy tyrannical shitbags.
[editline]6th September 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=Contag;32145937]I will agree with you when we have assange statues.
*built by him, not people who admire what he has done[/QUOTE]
Was kind of expecting an edit like this. You make a hell of a lot more sense now.
[QUOTE=Contag;32145937]I will agree with you when we have assange statues.
*built by him, not people who admire what he has done[/QUOTE]
Fine, he's not insane but he's a massive attention whore.
[QUOTE=Swilly;32146070]Fine, he's not insane but he's a massive attention whore.[/QUOTE]
More of an attention whore than the lady who spends a billion dollars to make a statue of herself during a global recession?
Yeah, I don't see where your coming from.
[QUOTE=HawkeyeTy;32146096]More of an attention whore than the lady who spends a billion dollars to make a statue of herself during a global recession?
Yeah, I don't see where your coming from.[/QUOTE]
I wasn't comparing him to her?
[QUOTE=Swilly;32146106]I wasn't comparing him to her?[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Swilly;32145767]They're both crazy :v:[/QUOTE]
I'd say that statements easily in the realm of a haste comparison.
[editline]6th September 2011[/editline]
Maybe not comparing the two, but definitely stating they're similar, when they're not.
[QUOTE=HawkeyeTy;32146126]I'd say that statements easily in the realm of a haste comparison.[/QUOTE]
Wow you're really anal on specificity.
[QUOTE=Swilly;32146142]Wow you're really anal on specificity.[/QUOTE]
Or I just wanted to answer your question about where you compared the two, but whatever.
[QUOTE=Swilly;32146070]Fine, he's not insane but he's a massive attention whore.[/QUOTE]
This is true.
Ohno Assange is SMELLY and a RAPIST and now hes CRAZY too!?!
[QUOTE=Swilly;32146070]Fine, he's not insane but he's a massive attention whore.[/QUOTE]
And he deserved that attention. Also how did he whore the attention for himself? You don't see him doing publicity stunts anywhere.
[QUOTE=Swilly;32146070]Fine, he's not insane but he's a massive attention whore.[/QUOTE]
The Chevy Chase of political transparency :v:
[QUOTE=Falchion;32146345]Ohno Assange is SMELLY and a RAPIST and now hes CRAZY too!?!
And he deserved that attention. Also how did he whore the attention for himself? You don't see him doing publicity stunts anywhere.[/QUOTE]
Not really when he's not the one actually doing the leaking, he's the 'figure head' of wikileaks.
However he's a fucking horrible figurehead.
These are my favorite Julian Assange quotes, from his online diary:
[quote]
I ended up at a backpackers filled with some of the 900 Christians from the Australian University Christian Convergence. Most were young women and I turned, somewhat disgracefully, into a sort of Chesterton's Hardy, the village atheist, brooding and blaspheming over the village idiot, while they, for their part, tried to convert me with the rise and fall their bosoms.
One of the devout was the lovely daughter of a New Castle minister. At some point in my unintended wooing of her, she looked up, fluttered her eyelids and said 'Oh, you know so much! I hardly know anything!'. 'That is why you believe in God," I explained. This conversational brutality took her breath away and she swooned. I was exactly what she secretly longed for; a man willing to openly disagree with her father. All along she had needed a man to devote herself to. All along she had failed to find a man worthy of being called a man, failed to find a man who would not bow to gods, so she had chosen a god unworthy of being called a god, but who would not bow to a man.[/quote]
[quote]I've always found women caught in a thunderstorm appealing. Perhaps it is a male universal, for without advertising this proclivity a lovely girl I knew, but not well, on discovering within herself lascivious thoughts about me and noticing raindrops outside her windows, stood for a moment fully clothed in her shower before letting the wind and rain buffet her body as she made her tremulous approach to my door and of course I could not turn her away.
But then, just when one might suspect that men are krill to the baleen of female romantic manipulation, I found myself loving a girl who was a coffee addict. I would make a watery paste of finely ground coffee and surreptitiously smear this around my neck and shoulders before seducing her so she would associate my body with her dopaminergic cravings. But every association relates two objects both ways. She started drinking more and more coffee. Sometimes I looked at her cups of liquid arabicia with envious eyes for if there were four cups then somehow, I was one of them, or a quarter of everyone one of them...[/quote]
[editline]6th September 2011[/editline]
It's like I'm really reading a wordy 16 year old's tumblr.
I mean seriously, having some romantic adventures are one thing, but pretending people are trying to use their breasts to get you into Christianity? Acting like you're so smooth talking genius because you got a minster's daughter excited? C'mon, it's not that hard. Everyone's done it once.
And there was also that time that he said:
[quote]I am the heart and soul of this organization, its founder, philosopher, spokesperson, original coder, organizer, financier and all the rest. If you have a problem with me, piss off.[/quote]
And he suspended a guy for saying he was not communicating fairly and had a god complex.
Well that's obnoxious. No wonder no one cares about his message even though it's fairly true.
[QUOTE=Falchion;32147206]Well that's obnoxious. No wonder no one cares about his message even though it's fairly true.[/QUOTE]
He reminds me of Potteh in some ways :v:.
His message is still important regardless. WikiLeaks as a whole is a very important source of information. But the guy is a nut, just not for the same reasons the equally-egocentric PM of India is suggesting.
[QUOTE=Frogz;32145105]Why hate Assange? You seem to be on the same level as that lady, boyo.[/QUOTE]
Yes because I stated my opinion on another person this means that i employ food tasters, am in constant fear of assasination and build statues of myself. Assange is a narcissistic cunt who seems to think he the "brains" of Wikileaks when instead he's running it into the ground.
[QUOTE=MachiniOs;32147472]Yes because I stated my opinion on another person this means that i employ food tasters, am in constant fear of assasination and build statues of myself. Assange is a narcissistic cunt who seems to think he the "brains" of Wikileaks when instead he's running it into the ground.[/QUOTE]
I like all the ignorant followers saying "Oh Assange is different. The other guy is a moron. Assange is not a sheepie like the people who just listen to the mainstream media."
It's so ironic, it hurts.
[QUOTE=Reimu;32147495]I like all the ignorant followers saying "Oh Assange is different. The other guy is a moron. Assange is not a sheepie like the people who just listen to the mainstream media."
It's so ironic, it hurts.[/QUOTE]
Assange is different, yes, but he's definitely a narcissistic bastard with a god-complex.
[QUOTE=Contag;32147519]Assange is different, yes, but he's definitely a narcissistic bastard with a god-complex.[/QUOTE]
The 'rape' case shows it best. I'm too lazy to look up what he said but just the fact he thought she'd love to wake up to sex is just...
[QUOTE=Contag;32147519]Assange is different, yes, but he's definitely a narcissistic bastard with a god-complex.[/QUOTE]
I don't know, I don't think working towards political transparency is really that different. There's been thousands of people trying to do the same thing for ages.
What's different as a whole is WikiLeaks, a centralized organization for encouraging political transparency by hosting leaked memos or "cables" to the public eye. Assange though? He's just another egocentric asshole looking to get a nice stroke. It's good that he believes in political transparency, but I don't see any difference in him from the various other politicians in the world who abandon their virtues and beliefs for their egos.
[img]http://unkode.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/young-julian-assange.jpeg?w=300&h=187[/img]
[editline]7th September 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=Reimu;32147571]I don't know, I don't think working towards political transparency is really that different. There's been thousands of people trying to do the same thing for ages.
What's different as a whole is WikiLeaks, a centralized organization for encouraging political transparency by hosting leaked memos or "cables" to the public eye. Assange though? He's just another egocentric asshole looking to get a nice stroke.[/QUOTE]
It's different to her, though.
[QUOTE=Contag;32147584][img]http://unkode.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/young-julian-assange.jpeg?w=300&h=187[/img][/QUOTE]
You can smell the coffee reeking from his neck and shoulders.
[QUOTE=Reimu;32147606]You can smell the coffee reeking from his neck and shoulders.[/QUOTE]
And the unknown band...
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