Julian Assange addressed permanent representatives to the UN General Assembly at a high-level talk on the legal and ethical legitimacy of diplomatic asylum.
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aussie
September 27, 2012 at 7:12 pm
Calling Assange ‘Enemy of State’ is their way of telling him he was not wrong to fear for his life, despite liberal-left journalists calling him ‘paranoid’.
THE US military has designated Julian Assange and WikiLeaks as enemies of the United States – the same legal category as the al-Qaeda terrorist network and the Taliban insurgency.
Declassified US Air Force counter-intelligence documents, released under US freedom-of-information laws, reveal that military personnel who contact WikiLeaks or WikiLeaks supporters may be at risk of being charged with “communicating with the enemy”, a military crime that carries a maximum sentence of death.
[see full article at the link]
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aussie
September 27, 2012 at 7:12 pm
Calling Assange ‘Enemy of State’ is their way of telling him he was not wrong to fear for his life, despite liberal-left journalists calling him ‘paranoid’.
US calls Assange ‘enemy of state’
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/us-calls-assange-enemy-of-state-20120927-26m7s.html
THE US military has designated Julian Assange and WikiLeaks as enemies of the United States – the same legal category as the al-Qaeda terrorist network and the Taliban insurgency.
Declassified US Air Force counter-intelligence documents, released under US freedom-of-information laws, reveal that military personnel who contact WikiLeaks or WikiLeaks supporters may be at risk of being charged with “communicating with the enemy”, a military crime that carries a maximum sentence of death.
[see full article at the link]