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Assange calls on President Obama to end the witch-hunt against Wikileaks
The founder of WikiLeaks Julian Assange used the balcony of the Ecuadorean embassy on Sunday to berate the United States for threatening freedom of expression and called on President Barack Obama to end what he called a witch-hunt against his whistle-blowing website. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesHmmm... he didn't say ANYTHING about braking bail or the sexual assault case, a little weird. I think he's making himself look a lot more guilty...... But then again he's some kind of conspiracy theorists folk hero so who cares about the law?
Aug 20th, 2012 - 07:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0The speech was hilarious when you think about it. Everything he condemned, Ecuador is guilty of. I would imagine there were awkward moments in the embassy after that rant.
Aug 20th, 2012 - 08:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0Good morning Ms Elaine :)
Aug 20th, 2012 - 08:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0It is pretty funny to watch, tho i feel sorry all the poor deluded sycophants standing around the front of the embassy. Why support this man?. And i gess they're havn't looked too far into Ecuador's brilliant civil liberties. (retards)
#2 “Everything he condemned, Ecuador is guilty of”
Aug 20th, 2012 - 09:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0When did Ecuador invade Iraq?! And are you really so indoctrinated that you can't see the difference between regulating Murdoch style corporate lie sheets and persecuting a website that tells the truth?
@4 Um, he did not mention Iraq in his speech. What were you watching?
Aug 20th, 2012 - 09:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0However this line “a dangerous and oppressive world, in which journalists fall silent under the fear of prosecution and citizens must whisper in the dark?” perfectly sums up Ecuador under Correa.
@3 Good morning to you too.
President Obama regarding Assange. “Who?”
Aug 20th, 2012 - 11:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0Aide explains who he is. “Well tell him to be a man and face his accusers in Sweden.”
Aide explains the situation with Ecuador. “Where?”
And so on and so forth.
Assange is really full of himself if he believes the US would lose one moments sleep over him, let alone persecute him.
By the way Assange, where is your proof that the USA is out to get you?
Assange championed by Ecuador such an advocat for Human rights, :)
Aug 20th, 2012 - 12:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What a Farce! good luck getting him to Ecuador “a safe haven for crims”
the longer Assmange puts himself under house arrest the better, as his sentence if found guilty is yet to be served :) unless of course he plans on living out his life at an ecuadorian embassy, nice move, lets hope he never needs hospital treatment, or theres a fire or any threat to the building, or if ecuador sends their UK ambassador home, The UK will do likewise which im guessing The Ecudorian embassy will no longer be existent, rendering it British soil once again.
Whens the lease up on the building? does it need fumigating? any asbestos need removing?
Assmange clearly no mention of his sex case against him, funny how he left that out of his speech, one would of thought that would of been high on the messiahs agenda to clear his name and reassure his disciples that he is the chosen one and still “Holy than thou”, but no..........nothing!
@4 saddam threatened his neighbours with chemical weapons yet again, the same weapons he used on 3000 Kurds,Men women and children killing them, the war criminal gambled and he lost, we had the better hand! You say “invasion” as you would,we say “prevention” as it was, and look he hasnt killed anyone since has he “Bullsh1tting_Kirchnerist”? :)
Assange is nothing more than a self annointed moral monitor of the world. He feels that he and only he can justify the means by the end results. He broke laws everywhere (before his rape allegations)in pursuit of what he felt was morally wrong and now the time has come for reconciliation.
Aug 20th, 2012 - 02:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Correa and Ecuador is the perfect dichotomy to Assange. I say let him go as he will never leave Ecuador, the country that persecutes oppostion media and fines them as musch as 42 million ( El Universo) and reporters can face 5 years in prison if el presidente deems an article defamatory. I say let the hypocrit go and face his new found and beloved country.
@8 I think “we” should put a bullet through his head as he steps on to Ecuadorian soil.
Aug 20th, 2012 - 02:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#9 Ultimately I think that is what will happen. However.....not from a Seal or Delta Force of anyone from the USA, UK. As I stated before,this whole scenario diverts Correa's persecution of the free press and the corruption allegations, not to mention empowers to a degree to his other SA leaders, afterall.....he is standing up to the evil capitals and power mongers. Nothing more would please Correa than to continue diverting the press from his limits to freedom of speech and corruption and in the same time, take a slice at the USA or UK.....more so the USA. His plan:
Aug 20th, 2012 - 03:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Assange is a pawn in Correa's plan. When he gets to Ecuador and thats a big if, in a short period of time he is assasinated or mysterously dies, only to blame to the Gringos......furthering the rage against the USA and even possibly permanently moving the press away for his doings in Ecuador.
Probably not.....but damn, all those SA's have conspiracy theories, we should too. lol
Bradley Manning is a soldier in the Army of his country. What is more he his a soldier in that Army because he volunteered to be so. He was not conscripted, he was a volunteer. Now can anybody tell me of any army of any country in the world, where a soldier steals classified materials and supplies it to a foreign source and it is not classed treason or a serious breach of military law.
Aug 20th, 2012 - 06:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The worlds foremost political prisoner my arse, he is a gullible fool, taken advantage of by Mr Assange and now he is going to have to pay the consequences for it.
China, North Korea, Russia, Iran, Syria, (South America trading buddies because of their human rights records) and most anyplace in the Middle East, southwest and south east asia and asia.
Aug 20th, 2012 - 07:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0However treason is most difficult to prosecute here in the USA as defined by our constitution. As crazy as it sounds, proving treason here requires “two witnesses testifying they ssaw the accused perform an overt act against the country”.
He will be tried on espionage charges when they complete their investigation.
Assange sold Manning down the river end of dit, he is a slimey self indulgent arse who has been backed into a corner and looking for anyway out, Ecuador have fell for his crap, and to a point so has Britian however our way out is to let him rot in the embassy and not give an inch to Ecuador, they say they now want talks, I say tell them to do one, made your bed now lay in it, talk sense or don't talk at all. Silence is a great weapon!!!!
Aug 20th, 2012 - 08:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0In my previous post I meant to say that thes countries would have executed him already.
Aug 20th, 2012 - 08:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I suppose Maning went to Assange with the material. Assange must have thought it was all his birthdays and christmas' rollled into one and had the equivelant of a journalistic orgasm! what did he think would happen to Manning? I expect he did not give a ferk about him! probably still does not, accept sick, pathetic clout he can now get from the world of shit he was responsible for dropping him in!
Aug 20th, 2012 - 09:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0”Assange is actually in the pay of the US government. His job is it undermine the credibility of wikileaks, whilst at the same time taking down the government of Ecuador. If he's successful there he'll move on to Venezula and then the rest of South America.
Aug 21st, 2012 - 10:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0He has (allegedly) been paid a 6 figure sum to do this and been granted immunity from prosecution.”
This is the latest conspiracy theory.
I'm posting it on every thread just to annoy Guzz. :0D
Just watched a piece on sky about Alexander Barankov. He is the true story here, not Assange. Appears the Ecuadorian Justice Ministry will announce their decison on his extradition shortly.
Aug 22nd, 2012 - 07:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0Commenting for this story is now closed.
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