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Today's WikiLeaks News
In today's episode of As WikiLeaks Turns we learn that WikiLeaks's main web site is back up less than 10 days after EveryDNS terminated the domain name over stability concerns. A 16-year-old Dutch boy suspected of being involved in the pro-WikiLeaks attacks on MasterCard and Visa has been arrested. But Dutch teenagers aren't the only Assange fans in the news. Many top journalists in Australia have sent a letter(PDF) to Prime Minister Julia Gillard today to express their support of WikiLeaks. The Sydney Police have written their own letter however to organizers of a pro-WikiLeaks rally saying that the police oppose a planned demonstration. Finally, special correspondent for The Times, Alexi Mostrous and freelance reporter Heather Brooke were given permission by the judge in the Julian Assange trial to post Twitter updates about the proceedings.
So go build an army and start a fascist revolution. If enough people support you, we'll get the sort of world you want.
Seriously? Someone is using him as a poster boy for a campaign against the paradox of pretrial incarceration in a free society?
That legal ship sailed a long time ago.
He's been charged. A judge has ordered him held. The law is being satisfied, as are his rights to due process.
He's not being tortured. Nobody is any more.
Fer fuck's sake, people with tiny minds have lost what little they had over this junk.