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Assange is explicitly and deliberately a politician. He stood as a candidate for the Australian Senate and used the brand 'wikileaks' for his party. http://ww
by sien 12y ago
Assange is explicitly and deliberately a politician.
He stood as a candidate for the Australian Senate and used the brand 'wikileaks' for his party.
http://www.wikileaksparty.org.au/ http://www.wikileaksparty.org.au/
They performed very poorly, getting only 0.62% of the vote.
Assange was popular as someone who enabled information to be available. As a politician with his own agenda he is not.
- danieltillett 12y agoActually 0.62% is not too bad for a candidate that got very little coverage. If he is a politician then he is not a very good one as the person who won the last senate seat Ricky Muir (we have 12 senators for each state) in Victoria (the state Assange was running in) only got 0.51% [1]. 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Muir http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Muir