WikiLeaks founder and destroyer-in-chief of American military credibility, Julian Assange, is not a very well-liked chap.

Last week he leaked literally tens of thousands of US Military Afghan War Logs to the press after posting them on WikiLeaks.org.

The logs detail the nitty gritty details of the nine-year US occupation of Afghanistan. Assange himself claims the logs detail war crimes committed by US forces, whereas critics have accused Assange of endangering the lives of individuals named and described in the logs.

Daily Beast journo, Tunku Varadarajan in particular, goes straight for the kill in his piece on Assange.

With his bloodless, sallow face, his lank hair drained of all color, his languorous, very un-Australian limbs, and his aura of blinding pallor that appears to admit no nuance, Assange looks every inch the amoral, uber-nerd villain, icily detached from the real world of moral choices in which the rest of us saps live. Call him the Unaleaker, with apologies to the victims of Ted Kaczynski.

Well sure, the guy hasn’t endeared himself. And ol’ Tunku isn’t alone in his intense loathing of Assange. Calling the American military, and by extension, the American nation “bastards” probably wasn’t a hot PR move.

But watching Assange wallow in the attention that has followed his voluminous data dump, one is struck by his strut, his hubris, his palpable vainglory. “I enjoy crushing bastards,” he crowed to Der Spiegel, one of the publications favored with the right to publish his dubiously acquired material. “The most dangerous men are those who are in charge of war,” he harrumphed. “And they need to be stopped.”

But ascribing “palpable vainglory” to a man who shares a physical similarity with a peeled onion basking in afternoon sunlight seems a little far fetched.

Here are five much, much better reasons to dislike Julian Assange.

1. He’s Australian
2. He’s Australian
3. He’s Australian
4. He’s Australian
5. He’s Australian

[Source : DailyBeast]

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