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Vancouver SunComplaint filed over call to assassinate WikiLeaks founder BY MIKE BARBER, POSTMEDIA NEWS DECEMBER 6, 2010 12:09 AM
A B.C. lawyer has filed a complaint with the Vancouver police, urging them to investigate whether Tom Flanagan, a former campaign manager for Prime Minister Stephen Harper, broke the law when he said WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should be assassinated.
Gail Davidson, a co-founder of the group Lawyers Against the War, wrote in the complaint that, on Nov. 30, Flanagan "counselled and/or incited the assassination of Julian Assange contrary to the Criminal Code of Canada," while commenting on the CBC program Power & Politics. Flanagan, a political-science professor at the University of Calgary and Harper's campaign manager in 2006, said he thought Assange "should be assassinated, actually. I think (U. S. President Barack) Obama should put out a contract and maybe use a drone or something."
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Flanagan has since issued a statement apologizing and said that he was not being serious.
Assange, for his part, has said the professor "should be charged with incitement to commit murder." "We can't just take to the airwaves suggesting that various people be killed," Davidson told Postmedia News on Sunday. "I know that if it were me, if he had said, 'I'd like to see Gail Davidson assassinated,' I wouldn't take it lightly."
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