PhantomWolf
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CT's often ask the question "Who has the most to gain?" when looking at events in the world, so I thought that I'd do this with the Wikileaks saga and see where it leads, you might be surprised.
Who has the most to gain from this event has to be Julian Assange.
Think about it. Wikileaks has gone from a virtually unknown site to the most talked about site on the planet. Assange himself has gone from a paranoid odd-bod that few cared about to a modern day Robin Hood. The person to get the most out of the whole affair is Assange himself.
So do the facts as we currently know them line up with the suspect? Let's have a look.
Assange wanted a big splash, but this 250,000 DoS leak hasn't lived up to its billing. Most of it people already knew or suspected, so it was never going to get the huge recognition that Assange wanted. However add in the whole rape story, and instant gold. Everyone is talking.
This means that not only did he gain, but he had motivation.
So we dig deeper. Did he have opportunity and means?
The women that started the ball rolling were supporters, one helping to set up the meetings he was involved in, in Sweden. They certainly could have planned this together, so that's a big yes for opportunity and means.
Gain, motivation, opportunity and means. Not looking good.
So what about his story? Is there anything that indicates that he lied?
His claim was that the rape claim was a CIA setup. Strange that since he knew both the women involved, who they were, and knew they were his supporters. Why would he claim that the CIA was behind it when he knew full well that they weren't? Could it be that he wanted to poison the well from the outset, deflect suspicion from himself by pointing at someone else?
What about his behaviour? We are told that he was paranoid and hard to get hold of for interviews, worried about the intelligence services being after him. So then, does it make sense that this man who was supposed to be so worried about getting attacked by secret agents would get himself alone with a woman that he supposedly didn't know well and had made such an obvious ploy for his attentions? He wants us to believe that he was on the look out for spies, but went alone with such an obvious setup? THIS MAKES NO SENSE!
So we have gain, motivation, opportunity, means, and inconsistencies in his claims.
So what really happened?
This is what I think. Knowing that the DoS documents were going to come to nothing much he devised a plan so cunning you could pin a tail on it and call it a weasel. Conspiring with two of his supporters he had them go to the police and spin a sob story that would get the Prosecutor to bring rape charges against him, knowing of course that in the end they'd fall over. He did this so that he could claim that it was the US Govt out to get him and be a martyr to the cause. Trouble was that the next day the main prosecutor tossed it out and ruined the plan, so what did they do? They made sure to give more " new information" thus getting the charges reinstated, exactly like he needed to put the next part of the plan into place. Crying foul he creates a file and claims that it holds massively explosive information and sends it out for download, the ultimate in vital marketing, and when you know it's never going to be opened you can put anything in it, it could be his last 50 shopping lists, no one is ever going to know, but it builds the whole "woe, they are out to get me, you have to save me from the evil bad guys" tale that he has skillfully weaved.
This narrative certainly explains the facts as we know them, including what seems rather strange about it. It is also far from unbelievable, in so much that I suspect that it is not that far from the truth of this matter.
So it is that I have come up with the Wikileaks Hoax, that Julian Assange himself is the mastermind behind setting up the charges again himself so as to increase the popularity and visibility of his site and to create a mythos about himself, making himself out to be a new folk hero and modern day Robin Hood. It is all about his own fame and a cunning case of viral marketing to achieve it.
Who has the most to gain from this event has to be Julian Assange.
Think about it. Wikileaks has gone from a virtually unknown site to the most talked about site on the planet. Assange himself has gone from a paranoid odd-bod that few cared about to a modern day Robin Hood. The person to get the most out of the whole affair is Assange himself.
So do the facts as we currently know them line up with the suspect? Let's have a look.
Assange wanted a big splash, but this 250,000 DoS leak hasn't lived up to its billing. Most of it people already knew or suspected, so it was never going to get the huge recognition that Assange wanted. However add in the whole rape story, and instant gold. Everyone is talking.
This means that not only did he gain, but he had motivation.
So we dig deeper. Did he have opportunity and means?
The women that started the ball rolling were supporters, one helping to set up the meetings he was involved in, in Sweden. They certainly could have planned this together, so that's a big yes for opportunity and means.
Gain, motivation, opportunity and means. Not looking good.
So what about his story? Is there anything that indicates that he lied?
His claim was that the rape claim was a CIA setup. Strange that since he knew both the women involved, who they were, and knew they were his supporters. Why would he claim that the CIA was behind it when he knew full well that they weren't? Could it be that he wanted to poison the well from the outset, deflect suspicion from himself by pointing at someone else?
What about his behaviour? We are told that he was paranoid and hard to get hold of for interviews, worried about the intelligence services being after him. So then, does it make sense that this man who was supposed to be so worried about getting attacked by secret agents would get himself alone with a woman that he supposedly didn't know well and had made such an obvious ploy for his attentions? He wants us to believe that he was on the look out for spies, but went alone with such an obvious setup? THIS MAKES NO SENSE!
So we have gain, motivation, opportunity, means, and inconsistencies in his claims.
So what really happened?
This is what I think. Knowing that the DoS documents were going to come to nothing much he devised a plan so cunning you could pin a tail on it and call it a weasel. Conspiring with two of his supporters he had them go to the police and spin a sob story that would get the Prosecutor to bring rape charges against him, knowing of course that in the end they'd fall over. He did this so that he could claim that it was the US Govt out to get him and be a martyr to the cause. Trouble was that the next day the main prosecutor tossed it out and ruined the plan, so what did they do? They made sure to give more " new information" thus getting the charges reinstated, exactly like he needed to put the next part of the plan into place. Crying foul he creates a file and claims that it holds massively explosive information and sends it out for download, the ultimate in vital marketing, and when you know it's never going to be opened you can put anything in it, it could be his last 50 shopping lists, no one is ever going to know, but it builds the whole "woe, they are out to get me, you have to save me from the evil bad guys" tale that he has skillfully weaved.
This narrative certainly explains the facts as we know them, including what seems rather strange about it. It is also far from unbelievable, in so much that I suspect that it is not that far from the truth of this matter.
So it is that I have come up with the Wikileaks Hoax, that Julian Assange himself is the mastermind behind setting up the charges again himself so as to increase the popularity and visibility of his site and to create a mythos about himself, making himself out to be a new folk hero and modern day Robin Hood. It is all about his own fame and a cunning case of viral marketing to achieve it.
