Assange points finger back at Palin, Republicans

[kpete]

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange wrote this Op-Ed for The Australian today:

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“In the race between secrecy and truth, it seems inevitable that truth will always win,” Assange quotes a young Murdoch as saying in 1958.

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WikiLeaks is not the only publisher of the U.S. embassy cables. Other media outlets, including Britain‘s The Guardian, The New York Times, El Pais in Spain and Der Spiegel in Germany have published the same redacted cables.

Yet it is WikiLeaks, as the coordinator of these other groups, that has copped the most vicious attacks and accusations from the U.S. government and its acolytes. I have been accused of treason, even though I am an Australian, not a U.S., citizen. There have been dozens of serious calls in the U.S. for me to be “taken out” by U.S. special forces. Sarah Palin says I should be “hunted down like Osama bin Laden,” a Republican bill sits before the U.S. Senate seeking to have me declared a “transnational threat” and disposed of accordingly. An adviser to the Canadian prime minister’s office has called on national television for me to be assassinated. An American blogger has called for my 20-year-old son, here in Australia, to be kidnapped and harmed for no other reason than to get at me.

And Australians should observe with no pride the disgraceful pandering to these sentiments by Prime Minister Gillard and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have not had a word of criticism for the other media organizations. That is because The Guardian, The New York Times and Der Spiegel are old and large, while WikiLeaks is as yet young and small.

more:
http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/mediadiary/index.php/australianmedia/comments/julian1/

[CJCRANE]

1. K & R! nt

[DirkGently]

2. The very ugliness of these attacks explains why we needed Assange to do what he's done.

[Catherina]

4. +1 n/t

[chimpymustgo]

5. Yes. This is very frightening.

[malaise]

8. Well they have kidnapped people's children

and they have 'taken out' people so this is normal speak for ReTHUGS

Then that semi-literate jackass Lady Blah Blah will shriek in that 'chalk meets blackboard' tone that 'they hate us for our freedoms'.
They are fucking crazy fascists. They don't believe in either free speech or the right to life.

[kestrel91316]

3. Anybody who so stupidly accuses this man of "treason" against the US when

he isn't even a US citizen and therefore no such charge could EVER be brought, needs to be forcibly and permanently committed to a rubber room.

[Catherina]

6. Don't speak too soon. They're doing some very underhanded things right now

to do just that. They'll add new provisions to the current laws to classify him as a terrorist and take it from there. Lieberman's working on it right now. Though I agree with you about committing those people to a rubber room.

[gratuitous]

7. Well, if you're not willing to murder in the name of freedom

You're not very serious about loving freedom. Same goes for blanket reprisals, kidnapping and abuse of family members, and other stuff supposedly outlawed by some quaint old documents. We'll show those fuckers what freedom means, by golly!

[Dawson Leery]

9. Sarah Palin is filth.

She is an authoritarian. And she is a dire threat to this world!