WikiLeaks

Tomorrow (25/7/11) the blond haired, blue-eyed Norwegian terrorist, Anders Behring Breivik will make his first court appearance charged with at least 93 counts of murder along with various firearms and explosives charges. I won't embarrass myself by trying to post pictures but it's fair to say that Breivik looks a lot like Julian Assange, founder of the WikiLeaks website.

If you're unfamiliar with the WikiLeaks story it's a website that allows people to anonymously and therefore securely leak documents. In 2010 it made public thousands of documents relating to the war in Iraq, thousands of documents relating to the NATO operation in Afghanistan and thousands of American diplomatic cables. This made some NATO members angry so Sweden used it's unique and controversial rape laws to issue a warrant to question Assange who was living in Britain at the time. Then Britain arrested Assange with a view to ultimately extradite him to the US. There he will cause no end of trouble for the Obama administration which is already viewed as a communist dictatorship that hates America by groups like the Tea Party. If the Obama administration doesn't prosecute Assange it will be viewed as not punishing an enemy of America. If it does prosecute Assange it will have to first overturn or go around the first amendment to the US constitution which guarantees the right to free speech. The Obama administration is currently deadlocked with the Republican Congress over attempts to avoid an American debt default. They have about 9 days left.

Assange's appeal against his extradition to Sweden is currently being considered by a British court. So by forcing Sweden's neighbour Norway to put an Assange lookalike on trial Britain is trying to find out if Norway supports the Assange plan and if they don't what action can be taken to change their mind.

As for the Breivik hearing tommorrow I expect it to be a very short affair because he doesn't need to speak to prove that he is being humanely treated and be remanded in custody. This discussion automatically brings up a memories of Ghalid Shilat which has the same emotional effect on younger Israelis as images of a military looking Aryan slaughtering children in a camp in northern Europe has on older Israelis and they're still trying to pick Amy Winehouse out of the walls.

As for my 1500 page manifesto on why Breivik doesn't even have the right to a trial let alone a speedy trial it's pretty much done. However I don't think it is right to publish it up on the Internet at this time and that's actually an argument I've had with Julian Assange.

Or to put it another way, are you having fun yet Norway?