+1 <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Norbert Klein <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nhklein@gmx.net" target="_blank">nhklein@gmx.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Thanks, Carlos.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Norbert Klein<br>
Cambodia</font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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On 8/20/2012 4:59 AM, Carlos A. Afonso wrote:<br>
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Leaving aside Adam's worry about which issues should be discussed here<br>
(and I think this is theme is directly related to Internet governance,<br>
as the network made viable the massive spread of info of which Wikileaks<br>
was the prime messenger, and this is part of freedom of expression and<br>
access to information over the net which is central to our rights-based<br>
debate), and as an asylum seeker in 1973 in Chile when I had, with my<br>
family, to seek refuge in the Panamanian embassy to escape Pinochet's US<br>
driven coup: I have to say that the blood-thirsty general adhered to the<br>
UN principles and let us out of Chile with full protection of its<br>
military from the Panamanian embassy to the airport.<br>
<br>
The Uk nowadays is not even capable of doing this in the Assange case,<br>
who has not been charged, whose supposed "sex violations" in Sweden<br>
include a girl who provided services for the CIA (strange coincidence,<br>
right?), and whose real "guilt" is in being a messenger -- as I said<br>
somewhere these days, Daniel Ellsberg during the Nixon era with Tony<br>
Russo were high-level employees of Rand and NASA, not simple privates<br>
like Manning, and were responsible for gathering and distributing the<br>
Pentagon papers to the NYT. Far "worse", if you wear the US<br>
establishment glasses, than Assange.<br>
<br>
I am really amazed at how low the UK has gone in this, not to speak of<br>
Australia, which in this situation unconditionally bows to the USA<br>
forgetting that Assange is a citizen of Australia.<br>
<br>
Whatever his personal style and private doings, Assange cannot be<br>
condemned for being a messenger, and ought to be granted the obvious<br>
international right to asylum. Or the UK would become like one more of<br>
those little governments which are even worse than the Pinochet regime.<br>
Well, the Cameron regime (can I say this?) had already proposed full<br>
censorship of networks during recent popular mobilizations in the<br>
country, what else to expect?<br>
<br>
frt rgds<br>
<br>
--c.a.<br>
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