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Wikileaks NOT illegal
You can't have AssangePM confirms finding by AFP Mark Dodd, December 18, 2010 12:00AM WIKILEAKS whistleblower Julian Assange had not broken any Australian laws, Julia Gillard said in a humiliating backflip from her earlier comments which revealed outrageous political harassment of an individual citizenyesterday. In an earlier statement, the Australian Federal Police said it had completed an evaluation of available material following the release of thousands of sensitive diplomatic cables and had found no breaches of Australian law. good The Prime Minister stressed that she was not suggesting the media had broken the law by publishing material from the cables. The "criminal act" she believed the affair was based on was the original theft of the classified material from the US military. Ms Gillard backed rapidly away from a comment she made on radio a fortnight ago that: "I absolutely condemn the placement of this information on the WikiLeaks website. It's a grossly irresponsible thing to do." But she said she still considered their publication grossly irresponsible. My people are enraged by the government interference in civic life and the meddling in the independence of the judicial process. She will support Assange or she will be out. Australian citizen Queensland-born Mr Assange, 39, who is fighting a bid by Swedish authorities to extradite him from Britain to face sex charges, was freed on bail yesterday by the High Court in London. Yesterday, lawyer Geoffrey Robertson QC, Another Australian who I am quite proud of right now who is representing Mr Assange, questioned why Swedish state prosecutors publicly accused his client of rape before any charges were laid. well obviously because it was a politically motivated holding charge designed to pin Assange down, hamper his work and keep him in custody till the US can ram through laws to convict him then extradite him from Sweden. That is Government interference in the judicial process, wiping away hundreds of years of the independence of courts/policing. Goodbye freedom and the right of the individual to be free from state persecution. Assange is now our Aung San Suu Kyi. Mr Robertson told ABC radio the Australian government should call in the Swedish ambassador to seek an explanation. or just expel them Ambassador Sven-Olof Petersson said in Canberra yesterday the issue had become too politicised. that's rich coming from him He said the Swedish government upheld the independence of its judiciary what a joke. nobody believes that of sweden now. and would not intervene in the Assange case. 'I'm really surprised that a highly respected judge (Robertson) should think the (Swedish) government should intervene with the Swedish judiciary." Mr Assange is staying with a friend at a country manor in Suffolk before his next court appearance on February 7 to contest the extradition request. Good luck Julian. For those who are interested they can check out the full page ads my countrymen have paid for in the New York Times. I'm not kidding: if you touch Assange ANZUS is dead and we will take our chances with the Chicoms and the Indos. Posted by: anon1 2010-12-17 |
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