[governance] Tangential (On Exceptionalism Wikileaks) America's vassal acts decisively and illegally

[Norbert Klein]

Thanks, Carlos.

Norbert Klein
Cambodia


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

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