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Mummelmann said:

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.

I see someone has been paying attention. The person who said he is did what was said was no doubt paid. Assange would be absolute stupid to do anything like that if he was leaking secrets of the worlds nations. Anything will be used against him, if they cant find anything they will make something up.



 

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Galaki said:
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De85 said:

The user poll has Lady Gaga at #3, so I wouldn't trust it too much either... 


I know. How is she not #1?


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


Why not MAN of the year? Apart from being over exposed and under talented.



MrBubbles said:
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MrBubbles said:

there is no journalism in mass releasing stolen, irrelevant, and unimportant diplomatic cables or dangerous files like shopping lists of targets for terrorists to attack and afghan informant identification (names and locations) .  perhaps if anything not garbage or disgusting was released he would have made it.   this guy is a pos molesterer and murderer.  TIME should not honour those sorts of people.  he is scum.

 

 

Edit:  MrBubbles person of the year is Commander Shephard.

Nothing you said made any sense.

I'd also like to point out that Stalin, Hitler and Ayatollah have been named Person of the Year. It's about impact, whether it's positive or negative should be irrelevant. Time just chickened out because they'd catch some flack from all the US businessman and politicians who have had their dirty laundry shown to the public.


if you cant understand it thats not my fault. 

 

and whats the problem with time realizing they shouldnt glorify trash?  poty should be someone that others should aspire to be like. 


I aspire to be more like Julian, a true hero.

 

Anyway, I'm pretty surprised by this, usually time don't shy away from a tough pick



Read next months Game Informer.  It should be their game of the year issue (I hope).  It will have their games of the year and the readers games of the year.  Sometimes the choices are the same.  More often, it isn't.  And it's no big deal.



This is an outrage. Just for this I'm going to ignore Time Magazine from now on, just like I have for the last 28 years.



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Lady Gaga is #3, that's a joke. She didn't do much this year. Americans are too obsessive when it comes to celebrities. As for Zuckerberg, I don't have a Facebook/MySpace or Twitter account,but, I do know a lot people who do. I guess TIME magazine just wanted to get someone whose more mainstream. Zuckerberg is more well known b/c of the facebook movie and he is also one of the youngest billionaires alive.



                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

Can anyone explain me why Erdogan is so high on the list?



Can anyone explain how Time choosing a different person than a Time internet poll means they are biased? Or is this just typical nerd rage because the guy who was auto-voted didn't get the title.

Heck, while I do care that he leaked info and think it is wrong of him to do so, I think the governments should do a better job keeping its secrets, so I can't blame him too much. But when the worst group in the world (Anonymous) decides to take down websites in typical nerd rage fashion it makes me really hate the guy.

Good for Time magazine to not be directed by a bunch of Internet voters, I'd rather they write about their own opinion.




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2 Recep Tayyip Erdogan 80 233639



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