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Wikileaks Founder Advised To Avoid American Gov't
eldavojohn writes "Media darling Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, has been told by his lawyers to avoid the United States on the grounds that the US military would like to ask him a few questions about his source of the Collateral Murder video. Assange claims to be holding yet more video (of a US attack on a village that allegedly killed 140 civilians in May of 2009), as well as a quarter million sensitive cables relating to the current foreign war operations from the US State Department. Assange surfaced for the cameras in Brussels while speaking about the need for the freedom of information. Can he build a high enough profile to protect himself from danger?"
Our US thuggery is fairly predictable. I'm sure the CIA or equivalent has already been given hit orders. It will be made to look like an accident (small plane crash, car crash, mystery disease, etc). Such is necessary for plausible deniability.
Poor bastard, he will be missed.
They want the guy making the leaks, because the people that were in charge aren't going to be prosecuted. Given the degree to which the White House was involved in the war crimes, it's an absolute embarrassment that not a single Bush administration official will be put on trial, let alone sent to prison for committing what are very clearly war crimes. I can sort of understand not wanting to convict CIA operatives, but at very least the people who ordered the criminal activities must be brought to justice or there's no saying how often it will happen in the future.
Granted a trial is no assurance of future compliance with international law, but it does give people that are considering violating the law something to think about.
"And if they were actually knowingly murdering innocent people then they should be condemned. But the fact is that you dont have all the facts, and yet you want desperately to see them all hanged along with the entire US military establishments. You casually ignore the attrocities commited around the world, many of which we have military might in place to help prevent."
And many of which US military helped to create in the first place.
Wish I had some points to give you.
darjen lives in some fantasy world where being pacifist will always get the result you want. Not true. See ArcherB's list.