I know. How is she not #1?

They don't have to name the readers choice as their choice. While my person of the year for influence on the world would be Assange, Zuckerberg is also up there - Facebook is unbelievably powerful. Time has the right to choice who they want and not picking your choice doesn't make them biased.

"Terrorists" is just a label. To many other countries we are are terrorists attacking their lifestyles and beliefs across the world. Bin Laden is what you would call a religious fighter, like Saladin and Baldwin IV of Jerusalem was during the crusades. During each crusade the attacking armies could be called terrorists. Even the South's defection from the union formed a terrorist nation bent on destroying the North's way of life (in context of the American Civil War for anyone not from the USA). 

BTW, Im just pissed JA wasnt named 2010 POTY, he is still the runner up...

Awww, but I wanted Assange to win!

Facebook is nothing more then Myspace with its balls cut off. It lacks any real features that made social networking fun and cut it down in favor of a corporate agenda. And as the lawsuits suggest, it should not even be completely Mark's.

He's probably a rapist and all that, no way someone fabricated the whole rape thing to lessen the damage from the leaks and hurt his credibility. Strange how people who reveal state secrets or blow whistles on these things always end up imprisoned and pinned with some past crime that someone happens to press charges for at the most timely moment possible.

I'm not a conspiracy theorist, too many whackjobs in those circles, but Assange has clearly been targeted with a smudge campaign to counteract the papers and information he leaked. My guess is that most of the US will see him as a terrorist since that's what the media will feed them and most other people will see him as a victim of a dirt-flinging campaign. War on terror indeed!

PS: Who did her murder? Are you talking about the supposed outing of agents and their identity? He outed the operations themselves, the agent names were all blacked out so no one came to harm. I guess you saw that on the news then, right?

Edit; ssj12: Anyone who doesn't see eye to eye with US foreign policy and illegal warfare is a terrorist nowadays.

Person of the Year isn't about glorifying the actions of the candidates. It's about taking notice of the people who have the largest impact on the world in that given year. If I dropped a nuclear bomb on the US, I made the largest impact on the world in that year. I've changed the lives of millions of people (for better or for worse) and I've had a profound impact on human history. That's the reason why Hitler and Stalin have been been given the title.

Also, when did Assange become a bad guy? The things his doing involving Wikileaks should be supported and it should be the people who are caught out that are punished and scorned. 

Maybe it's called MAN of the year, instead?

Can I ask you what you consider terroism to be? I don't think it is what you think it is. He is not a terroist, and as someone pointed out (after this post was done) terroism these days is thrown around incredibly too much.

Use Obamas name in vain is probably a terroist action according to certain media group ran by an ex-australian (apparently he doesnt have his aus passport anymore although his mother lives in melbourne...).

It is an absolute joke, while ssj i think you are mainly saying they are biased because Assange is an Aussie, and Mr.Bubbles could they not be pulling anything to get Assange in shit? Anything they can get on this guy they will. Money is on that he didnt do what was reported.

the recent media bollocks about him apparently raping someone. The funny thing in aussie politics the Australian PM is getting slaughtered in house by not defending Julian Assange more. I read somewhere that even Kevin Rudd is supporting him to an extent.