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

[Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro]

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On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Norbert Klein <nhklein at gmx.net> wrote:

> Thanks, Carlos.
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> Norbert Klein
> Cambodia
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> On 8/20/2012 4:59 AM, Carlos A. Afonso wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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
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>> --c.a.
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