15-12-2010, 06:35 PM
(This post was last modified: 15-12-2010, 06:51 PM by Peter Lemkin.)
Peter Presland Wrote:The whole "control of Wikileaks' saga just gets stranger and stranger. This from a comment on Aagirfan's blog:
Quote:Blackwatch left us this comment:The man that Assange may be staying with over Xmas - Vaughn Lockhart Smith - has quite an illustrious right-wing history (even more so than Jemima Goldsmith).It seems that the Sussex address specified in the bail conditions is indeed that of one of the Lockhart clan. Our Julian is accumulating some very strange defenders.
His family go back to Count James Lockhart, whose daughter Maria married John Smith of Ellingham Hall.
Ellingham is where Assange will be staying.
James was also in the Grenadier Guards.
His father and grandfather also have reputable military histories - as befits anybody entering Mi6. (see Lt.Col. Henry Lockhart Smith - in Landed Gentry)
Interesting to see Litvineko and Boris Berezovsky as past members of Vaughn's Frontline Club.
Not a bad way of controlling conflict coverage, is it?
James Lockhart - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Is he with or just watching Julian?
- Blackwatch
"Toto, I think we're not in Kansas any longer!" One wonders what's in the basement of his mansion?! Julian should be meeting some VERY 'interesting' dinner and party guests over the holidays......."could you speak a little louder into the mint/olive/clove in your drink, sir!" [they'll be wiring his bedroom now, if all the rooms aren't already - likely!] One can't blame hiim for his familiy. He did server in the military and has apparently funded some somewhat progressive films....we need a bit more on this man and his 'club'. I don't know if he is to be suspect or he, as well as Assange are being uused...but, agreed, very strange territory and a few steps up from Anna's student digs! [Eat your heart out Anna.....] More and more this is looking like a 'turning point' none could have predicted and out of the hands of even those who are trying to spin and control it. See here for an interesting perspective on this aspect. Mad Hatter's Tea Party might be apt to describe where we are, as a group.....
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"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass