Special Report: STD fears sparked case against WikiLeaks boss. Ad hominem. An ad hominem (Latin for "to the man" or "to the person"[1]), short for argumentum ad hominem, is a general category of fallacies in which a claim or argument is rejected on the basis of some irrelevant fact about the author of or the person presenting the claim or argument.[2] Fallacious Ad hominem reasoning is normally categorized as an informal fallacy,[3][4][5] more precisely as a genetic fallacy,[6] a subcategory of fallacies of irrelevance.[7] Ad hominem reasoning is not always fallacious, for example, when it relates to the credibility of statements of fact.
Ad hominem arguments are the converse of appeals to authority, and may be used in response to such appeals. Ad hominem as it is discussed in this article refers to the logical fallacy argumentum ad hominem, and not to the literal Latin phrase ad hominem. Types Abusive Abusive ad hominem usually involves attacking the traits of an opponent as a means to invalidate their arguments.
Circumstantial Examples: Tu quoque See also References. Smear.
Frost over the World - WikiLeaks and Julian Assange. Assange attorney: Grand jury meeting in Virginia on WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange surrendered to British authorities last week. He is set to appear in court Tuesday. Attorney Mark Stephens made the comments on Al-JazeeraThe Swedes have said they will defer to the United States, he saysAmerica wants to "get their mitts on him," attorney says of Assange London (CNN) -- A secret grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, is meeting to consider criminal charges in the WikiLeaks case, an attorney for the site's founder, Julian Assange, told the Al-Jazeera network in an interview. "We have heard from Swedish authorities there has been a secretly empaneled grand jury in Alexandria. ... They are currently investigating this," Mark Stephens told Al-Jazeera's Sir David Frost on Sunday, referring to WikiLeaks. The site, which facilitates the disclosure of secret information, has been slowly releasing a trove of more than 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables since November 28.
U.S. Is WikiLeaks founder a journalist? Why 'anonymous' matters Meanwhile, The U.S. Sweden authorizes INTERPOL to make public Red Notice for WikiLeaks founder. ASSANGE, JULIAN PAUL. Assange Case: Evidence Destroyed Over and Over Again — Rixstep Industry Watch. Home » Industry Watch (» The Technological) (» Hall of Monkeys) (» Heroes Banquet) Sensational news: extraordinary Internet detective work by Göran Rudling. From 30 September 2010. [UPDATE: Anna Ardin did in fact make the whole story up as part of her 'seven step plan for revenge'. See here.] One of the women who filed charges against Julian Assange is Anna Ardin. Anna Ardin is christian, feminist, social democrat, animal rights activist, and opponent of abortion on the left political scene. 'A political scientist, communicator, entrepreneur, and freelance writer with special knowledge within faith and politics, gender equality issues, feminism, and Latin America.' On Saturday 14 August at 14:00 she wrote the following on her Twitter account. 'Julian wants to go to a crayfish party, anyone have a couple of available seats tonight or tomorrow?
Early on the morning of Sunday 15 August (02:00) she writes again at Twitter. As we can see, Anna Ardin is doing all she can to hide her tweets. Assange Case: Ny Knows the Girls Made it Up but Doesn't Care — Rixstep Industry Watch. Home » Industry Watch (» The Technological) (» Hall of Monkeys) (» Heroes Banquet) Revelations by Assange's Australian barrister James Catlin. STOCKHOLM/MELBOURNE (Rixstep) — The charges against Julian Assange were indeed trumped up. Anna Ardin and Sofia Wilén planned it all. They went to the police station asking for advice, knowing the police would turn it into an accusation of rape. They're also the ones who leaked the story to the tabloid Expressen. This was revealed in a letter written by Assange's Australian barrister to the website Crikey.
Recap A bit of a recap first. Anna Ardin and Sofia Wilén approached the Klara police station in Stockholm on the afternoon of Friday 20 August 2010 to ask questions of the police, purportedly about forcing someone to submit to STD/HIV tests. The policemen on duty rang up prosecutor on duty Maria Kjellstrand even before the formal interrogation had begun. Case Dismissed Enter Claes Borgström But Claes Borgström knew better. SMS & Twitter Ramifications. Julian Assange to be questioned by British police | Media. Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, is expected to appear in a UK court today after his lawyers said he would meet police to discuss a European arrest warrant from Sweden relating to alleged sexual assaults. As the legal net continued to close around the whistleblowers' website and the US attorney general, Eric Holder, said he had authorised "a number of things to be done" to combat the organisation, Assange appeared to be reconciling himself to a lengthy personal court battle to avoid extradition to Sweden.
Jennifer Robinson, a solicitor with Finers Stephens Innocent, which represents the Australian freedom of information campaigner, told the Guardian: "We have a received an arrest warrant [related to claims in Sweden]. We are negotiating a meeting with police. " Another lawyer representing Assange, Mark Stephens, added: "He has not been charged with anything. Stephens explained that the interview would happen in the "foreseeable future" but he could not give a precise time. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrested by Scotland Yard. Naomi Wolf: J'Accuse: Sweden, Britain, and Interpol Insult Rape Victims Worldwide.
How do I know that Interpol, Britain and Sweden's treatment of Julian Assange is a form of theater? Because I know what happens in rape accusations against men that don't involve the embarrassing of powerful governments. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is in solitary confinement in Wandsworth prison in advance of questioning on state charges of sexual molestation. Lots of people have opinions about the charges. But I increasingly believe that only those of us who have spent years working with rape and sexual assault survivors worldwide, and know the standard legal response to sex crime accusations, fully understand what a travesty this situation is against those who have to live through how sex crime charges are ordinarily handled -- and what a deep, even nauseating insult this situation is to survivors of rape and sexual assault worldwide. Here is what I mean: men are pretty much never treated the way Assange is being treated in the face of sex crime charges. Statement from Scotland Yard on Julian Assange.
By BNO News LONDON (BNO NEWS) — Scotland Yard on Tuesday released the following statement regarding the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. “Officers from the Metropolitan Police Service’s Extradition Unit have this morning, Tuesday 7 December, arrested Julian Assange on behalf of the Swedish authorities on suspicion of rape. Julian Assange, 39 (3.07.71), was arrested on a European Arrest Warrant by appointment at a London police station at 09:30hrs. He is accused by the Swedish authorities of one count of unlawful coercion, two counts of sexual molestation and one count of rape, all alleged to have been committed in August 2010.
Assange is due to appear at City of Westminster Magistrates’ Court today.” (Copyright 2010 by BNO News B.V. All rights reserved. Rutte, bied Assange asiel in Nederland - de Volkskrant - Opinie. Uitgesproken: petitie voor WikiLeaks. Advocaat Assange-slachtoffers geDDoSt. De Nederlandse Publieke Omroep maakt gebruik van cookies. We maken een onderscheid tussen functionele cookies en cookies voor het beheer van webstatistieken, advertenties en social media. De cookies bevatten geen persoonsgegevens en zijn dus niet tot een individu te herleiden. Met de cookies voor advertenties en social media worden mogelijk door derden gegevens verzameld buiten de websites van de Nederlandse Publieke Omroep. Bij instellingen kun je aangeven deze cookies niet te accepteren. Waarom cookies? De Nederlandse Publieke Omroep maakt gebruik van cookies. Klik hier voor meer informatie over cookies en een overzicht van de sites waar je toestemming voor geldt.
Cookie instellingen aanpassen? De cookie instellingen voor de websites van de Nederlandse Publieke Omroep zijn te allen tijde te wijzigen. Cookie-instellingen aanpassenAkkoord. Nobel Prize could protect WikiLeaks founder - Kremlin source ? RT. Assange lawyers say US preparing charges. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. The US may be about to press charges against Julian Assange, the editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks, one of his lawyers said. Jennifer Robinson said an indictment of her client under the US's Espionage Act was imminent. She said her team had heard from "several different US lawyers rumours that an indictment was on its way or had happened already, but we don't know".
According to some reports, Washington is seeking to prosecute Mr Assange under the 1917 act, which was used unsuccessfully to try to gag The New York Times when it published the Pentagon Papers in the 1970s. Advertisement Ms Robinson said Mr Assange's team did not believe the US had grounds to prosecute him but understood that Washington was "looking closely at other charges, such as computer charges, so we have one eye on it". Mr Assange is in Wandsworth prison in south London after being refused bail on Tuesday. "We have a very serious, active, ongoing investigation that is criminal in nature. Claudia Parsons | Journalist Profile | WikiLeaks, The Espionage Act, and the First Amendment: The Law, Politics, and Policy of Prosecuting Julian Assange - 2011 Founders’ Celebration Events - Special Events & Continuing Legal Education – American University Washington College of Law.
THE LAW, POLITICS, AND POLICY OF PROSECUTING JULIAN ASSANG. Wermiel, Stephen - Faculty. Victoria Toensing. Victoria Toensing (born c. 1940) is a lawyer, and partner with her husband, Joseph DiGenova, in the Washington law firm DiGenova and Toensing. Her practice specializes in white-collar criminal defense, regulatory inquiries, and legislative advocacy. She has appeared as a legal commentator on several networks such as CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC Background[edit] Toensing graduated from Indiana University in 1962, matriculating in Education. She taught high-school English until she entered law school, earning a J.D. from the University of Detroit School of Law in 1975. In 1981, she became Chief Counsel to Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence,[1] where she helped draft the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982.
In 1984, she joined the Reagan administration as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General, where she headed the "Terrorism Unit", the first working group in the Department of Justice to investigate and prosecute terrorism-related crimes. Only Connect - Person of the Year 2010. "On or about December 1910, human character changed. " — Virginia Woolf, 1924 She was exaggerating — but only a little. Woolf saw a fundamental shift in human relations taking place at the beginning of the 20th century "between masters and servants, husbands and wives, parents and children. " Those changes, she predicted, would bring about transformations in every sphere of life, from religion to politics to human behavior.
Few would say she got it wrong. A century later, we are living through another transition. The way we connect with one another and with the institutions in our lives is evolving. More than anyone else on the world stage, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg is at the center of these changes. Evolutionary biologists suggest there is a correlation between the size of the cerebral neocortex and the number of social relationships a primate species can have. All social media involve a mixture of narcissism and voyeurism. Next The Year of Microterrorism. Assange on jail. Julian Assange Granted Bail. DR. KEITH ABLOW: Inside the Mind of Julian Assange. WikiLeaks founder and editor-in-chief Julian Assange is a zealot and a purist who sees the world in simple terms: Great injuries are done to innocents when powerful people or concerns can operate secretly. The highest good comes from bringing the facts about such entities or individuals to light, using any means necessary and despite any negative consequences or loss of life, because a greater good—namely, justice—is served.
Julian Assange wants to force his brand of info-therapy on all of us. He wants to enter the psyches of governments and corporations (and maybe me, if I displease him) as a kind of omnipresent superego—making them “choose” complete transparency and truthfulness and (to his eye) integrity, lest they be exposed as frauds before the entire world, with the blood of their posturing or lies or half-truths spilling wherever it might. The roots of Mr. According to available sources, Assange was born in Townsville, Queensland to a single woman named Christine. Dr. Dr. Was Anna Ardin a “CIA Honeytrap”? | Operation Protest. In computer terminology, a honeytrap or honeypotis a trap set to detect, deflect, or in some manner counteract attempts at unauthorized use of information systems. Even more interesting and weird stuff turns up regarding Anna Ardin (News Post). New questions needs to be answered: Did she plan the ‘rape’ with her friend?
Why did both ‘rape’ victims had hidden agendas? I just researched and will show you some interesting quotes and headlines: “WikiLeaks ‘rape’ victims had hidden agendas … and I’ve seen the proof says Julian Assange’s lawyer” Source: dailymail.co.uk“Revealed: Assange ‘rape’ accuser linked to notorious CIA operative” Source: rawstory.comA growing number of observers believe Ardin works for the CIA and was employed to set-up Assange. You can read more about Anna Ardin on this page. Be a part of Operation Protest. BBC video: Assange tells of 'smear campaign' 17 December 2010Last updated at 03:52 Julian Assange spoke to Newsnight's Kirsty Wark after being released on bail Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has said attempts to extradite him to Sweden over sexual assault allegations are part of a "smear" campaign.
Mr Assange is staying at a house near Bungay, Suffolk, after being freed on bail by the High Court in London while awaiting extradition proceedings. He said more information would be published by the whistle-blowing website following his release. Mr Assange denies the allegations made by Swedish prosecutors. 'Disturbing aspects' Speaking to BBC Newsnight, the 39-year-old Australian said of the case against him: "My feeling is in fact that there's a number of different interests - personal, domestic and international - that are all feeding from this process and encouraging it and pushing it along. "But it is revealing some important things. He replied: "We have done everything by the book. 'Continuing vendetta' Continue reading the main story. Julian Assange vows to continue leaking secret material. The Creepy, Lovesick Emails of Julian Assange. @truthtellah: Gotta disagree with you.
Yes, there's a concerted effort to destroy his personal reputation, no question. But that doesn't mean he's NOT an ass. And being an ass doesn't mean you haven't done anything worthwhile. Lots of people who've come up with things like insulin and the telephone and such have been assholes. You just need to apply your critical intelligence to the whole problem and sift out the bad parts to make use of the good parts. @raincoaster: I agree, actually. Considering how many people have left Wikileaks in the last year thanks to what they call Assange's "megalomania" and "dictatorial" leadership, he may be more of what's wrong with Wikileaks than anything else.
I, for one, wish Wikileaks could separate itself from Assange and save itself, but it seems he might have to say the Holocaust didn't happen for them to drop him. @truthtellah: Thanks, that's very interesting. @raincoaster: It was very wiki until recently. Elsevier. 10 days in Sweden: the full allegations against Julian Assange | Media. The Full allegations against Julian Assange. Assange turns on Guardian in Times interview. Naomi Wolf deconstructs Sexual Allegations Against Julian Assange. Andrew Kreig: Rove Suspected In Swedish-U.S. Political Prosecution of WikiLeaks. The women accusing Julian Assange of sexual assault deserve to be taken seriously. - By Amanda Marcotte.
Wikileaks NEWS - 2011-01-21 Former Swedish judge Sundberg-Weitman speaks out on the handling of the Julian Assange ca.