US State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland has angrily condemned both WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and the nation of Ecuador today, after the former criticized the US “war on whistleblowers” in a speech from the Ecuadorean embassy.
She accused Assange of making up “wild accusations” about US plans to prosecute him in an attempt to distract attention from sex crime allegations in Sweden. The US has neither confirmed nor denied plans to prosecute Assange in the past, but US officials have called him a “terrorist” and several Congressmen have demanded his summary execution related to leaked State Department cables.
Nuland likewise condemned Ecuador for calling an emergency meeting of the Organization of American States last week, calling it a “sideshow” and that the OAS has “no role” in the situation. Ecaudor called the meeting after British FM William Hague threatened to attack the embassy and take Assange by force.
Assange is stuck in the Ecuadorean embassy for the foreseeable future after Ecuador granted him asylum and Britain ruled out letting him leave the country. His application for asylum was based on fear that if he went to Sweden for “questioning” (he faces no charges) they would send him to the US and he would disappear into a virtual legal black hole.
Julian Assange could have sex with any women, his name alone is that sexy, making any women, the right one, to have sex with him. But those two Swedish women, one a member of the Swedish social democratic party whom actually invited him to her apartment to have sex with Julian, and the other a SAPO agent who is no where to be found so as the other women for interview. The side show of the matter is the Syrian war organized by the US stat department secretary Hillary Clinton and her boss Barack Hussein Obama and other bosses like Saudi and UAE and Turkish government, thats the side show by an “democratic” elite of those who call this matter a “sideshow”, then again everything to these people is a show which shows that they must be from Hollywood and not talking about real things and matter involving democracy or peoples life.
People in the U.S. State Department need to get a life.
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2012/07/19…
The U.S. hates truth-tellers with a passion. It doesn't want the truth to upset the zombies within its borders. They might panic, might take flight, might start to put two plus two together and get four! Yeah, feed them B.S. and keep them in the dark just like you do with mushrooms.
Assange is dead meat. He upset the Masters of the World, the Killers of Peace! They will get him, render and torture him, then he will disappear or be publicly executed as a warning to others.
Sieg Heil, America!
Well, Mr. Prez, better call Chuck Norris and send in Delta Force to grab Assange, and blow up the Ecuadorean Embassy. Oh, and remember to crank up a couple of B-2 stealth bombers and nuke Ecuador itself while you're at it.
We will Hail Victory when the forces of good prevail over the darkness and evil.
Is that why he was advised not to step out onto the balcony?
Notice that the US hits out at anyone but the guilty. Freedom of speech in the USA now means only freedom to spend lots of money to buy elections.
If the State Department was soooo concerned about its confidential schenanigans it should not have given access to hundreds of thousands of persons, including privates in the military who have nothing to do with the State Department. There has to be some responsibility and accountability within the State Department for this breach of "security" which was not a brach of security but rather a breach of confidentiality. Sorry Hillary. I guess you would rather see Manning in jail than yourself.
I take this condemnation to mean that Assange/Correra are doing something right.
America is alienating itself from more of the world over this confrontation. The world watches how America turns its nose up against due process and diplomacy. The people of the world become changed once again, little by little, understanding that America is a friend of nobody – it´s belligerence is surpassed only by its belligerence. Every day America looses more and more friends and respect. In this sense, both Assange and Ecuador are winning, and the longer this drags on the more despicable American becomes in the eyes of the people of the world.
I really don´t know if America´s leaders don´t understand this or just don´t give a damn. Personally I believe the later to be the case.
Of course, as Julian Assange said, those politicians fear the public. They want to work hidden and at night.
The "wild accusations" are those against Assange in Sweden. Are we really to believe that all this is over him not wearing a condom during sexual intercourse? We aren't even dealing with a violent crime or "legitimate rape." Britain is willing to destroy international relations with Ecuador over the fact that he is wanted for not wearing a condom? For history, women have been sent out to entrap men.
Americans are calling him a terrorist? The whole idea makes me wonder, what the hell is a terrorist these days? Anyone who questions the validity of wars with valid information? You can prosecute him for publishing information that was given to him. That does NOT constitute as terrorism. He didn't strap a bomb to himself and blow up buildings and he isn't funding any terrorist organization. He is just speaking the truth, and he is a hero to many.
And we who proclaim the truth should take heart,
for it is absolute, light always forces the darkness
to give way.
I was digging into my memory and up popped the old news that the main 'rape' victim had left Sweden shortly afterward, heading to Israel/Palestine and didn't seem interesting in cooperating with police nor in pursuing any charges against Assange. I found it here: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/09/assange-acc…
Additionally, my memory seems correct that Assange was questioned by the Swedish police at the time the complaints were made, and he was let go without any restrictions on travel, etc. So the police didn't believe they had a criminal case to begin with and he was free to travel to the UK; he didn't 'flee' Sweden.
So there is obviously more going on than is apparent to the eye. The US wants Assange for giving them a black eye in front of the whole world, a bit of revenge. Of course, many other countries figured in the leaked documents and they are none too happy with him either.
Said the State Department representative: "We don't care about Assange, and we don't care about whistleblowers in general. We feel so strongly about this that we are taking this time to make an angry statement blasting everyone who is involved in the obstruction of us doing something we don't care about, weren't going to do and don't have any feelings about. Tomorrow we will be making a similar statement about the ownership of teddy bears by children, and those who would prevent that, if they existed, which they don't."
Or, as Wm Shakespeare said, the lady doth protest too much.
Nothing to see here–move along: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jun/…
SMH. Damn, it's embarrassing to be an American these days.
This news from RT:"The Swedish government will not extradite Assange to the US should he face the death penalty there, as any possible extradition request from Washington is then subject to strict conditions, an official from the country’s Justice Ministry declared.
“We will never surrender a person to the death penalty,” the deputy director of the Service for Criminal Cases and International Cooperation of Sweden’s Justice Ministry said in an interview with the Frankfurter Rundschau newspaper on Tuesday.
This means there should be strict guarantees from the US government that “the prisoner will not be executed in any case,” added Cecilia Riddselius. But, she added, so far her country has not received any extradition request from Washington".
THis is not true at all, the Swedish government under the Social Democrats have given people of interests to US where the evidence shows that they have been tortured by CIA and left to die in hands of another torturer in their respective countries, having said that: the Cecilia Riddselius comment on the case shows the fact that they will surrender Julian Assange to US if US asks, where such plan is already drown by the US government which will keep him in prison for rest of his life, so what is different between killing a man and keeping hime for life in prison and having him subjected to all kind of tortures for rest of his life…? As they are doing to Brady Manning and those whom are in US militarism bases in Afghanistan and those who are in Guantanamo prison in Cuba.
Look: these people are the NEO Liberalist in Sweden, partly religious, partly nationalist and partly open fascist, the question is: when the leaders of Social Democrats of Sweden have given those whom later found to be innocent to CIA where they have been tortured then what is the guarantee for these Liberal Fascist not doing so when asked, the fact is, what this women is saying is this, if US guarantee that US will not kill this man they will hand him over to CIA and from there gods knows where he will end up.
Look: the NEO LIBERAL fascism government of Sweden is no better then the English Neo Liberal fascist of David Cameron of England is, or for that matter the US government militarism regime, what they have promised is the fact that one way or the other they will silence those who spotlight their lies about their falsified democracy or liberalism.
And the rest of the world condemns the State Department. So?
They're going to attack the Ecuadorean embassy, Ecuador calls an OAS meeting, and Nuland says it's a 'sideshow'? She is smoking something Ecuadorean.
What an embarrasment for the diplomats of the "free world". First, publishing the information provided by whistleblowers has been defined as a crime. Security has been invoked as an sacred cow, when in fact, all that the public saw was cruelty of the imperial masters, their contempt for the world, and utter incompetence in discharging their duties. The resulting embarassment should have been turned into an internal search for failures, as well as reforms to fix the ridiculous, arrogant business we call diplomacy. But masters of the Universe can feel no shame, nor be capable of soul searching (they have none). As for Swedish Government, not much can be said. They turned over many a human being to torturers to disappear. They would with pleasure do it again. Not being charged with anything, wanted for questioning, he should put his life in the hands of incompetent, viscious imperial drones?
Isn't it obvious now, American "freedom" is freedom with very narrow limits indeed, as long as you don't protest, or embarass the powers that be you are "free". It's like what we always criticized countries like China for, you are free as long as you are not too political. Free to make money sure … just don't criticize the political system too much.
No voting isn't "too political" they have rigged that game near entirely, nor is at the moment an unknown person posting political rants on the internet (they don't have enough influence to bother with – but I do worry they will move to forbid even this). But dare to actually protest, dare to reveal the truth about the government and how it actually operates, and you WILL be punished. THAT is what the U.S. government really is. Bin Ladin and Julian Assange (and odd pair) have indeed exposed it.
In the old Soviet Union, people could also vote, albeit only for the Communist Party, and had freedom of expression, but protest against and criticize the government, and it was straight to the gulag or a mental institution. In Soviet Amerika today, you can vote for either side of a one-party system, Republican or Democrat, and have freedom of speech, but only in 'free speech zones". Make too much noise protesting or criticizing the government, and it's off to the U.S. gulag, or simply have your property stolen by the government, lose your livelihood and have your life essentially destroyed.
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