Worldwide Witchhunt Of Heroic Julian Assange Intensifies

[Lewinsky Stinks, Dr. Brennan Rocks]

Noose Tightens Around Wikileaks' Assange

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101202/ap_on_re_us/wikileaks

Funny... Anat Kam is an international heroine, while Assange deserves to be drawn and quartered without even a trial. At least this case is showing what whores rule all persons over the face of the earth, and what a farce the notion of "democracy" is. Guess "free speech" isn't so free after all... anywhere.

Let us all pray that miraculously, G-d protects this unwitting hero.

DBF

PS: One more thing, yimach schmo vezichro to that Obama-worshipping "Republican" animal Peter King (C-NY) (the C standing for "communist"). He is the terrorist, not Assange or Wikileaks.

The noose tightens around WikiLeaks' Assange
By RAPHAEL G. SATTER and MALIN RISING, Associated Press
– 36 mins ago

LONDON – The law is closing in on Julian Assange. Swedish authorities won a court ruling Thursday in their bid to arrest the WikiLeaks founder for questioning in a rape case, British intelligence is said to know where in England he's hiding, and U.S. pundits and politicians are demanding he be hunted down or worse.
The former computer hacker who has embarrassed the U.S. government and foreign leaders with his online release of a huge trove of secret American diplomatic cables suffered a legal setback when Sweden's Supreme Court upheld an order to detain him — a move that could lead to his extradition.
Meanwhile, Assange continues to leak sensitive documents. Newly posted cables on WikiLeaks' website detailed a host of embarrassing disclosures, including allegations that Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi accepted kickbacks and a deeply unflattering assessment of Turkmenistan's president.
Assange is accused in Sweden of rape, sexual molestation and coercion in a case from August, and Swedish officials have alerted Interpol and issued a European arrest warrant to bring him in for questioning.
The 39-year-old Australian denies the charges, which his lawyer, Mark Stephens, said apparently stemmed from a "dispute over consensual but unprotected sex." Stephens said the case is turning into an exercise in persecution.
While Assange has not made a public appearance for nearly a month, his lawyer insisted authorities know where to find him.
"Both the British and the Swedish authorities know how to contact him, and the security services know exactly where he is," Stephens told The Associated Press.
It was unclear if or when police would act on Sweden's demands. Police there acknowledged Thursday they would have to refile their European arrest warrant after British authorities asked for more details on the maximum penalties for the three crimes.
Scotland Yard declined comment, as did the Serious and Organized Crime Agency, responsible for processing European arrest warrants for suspects in England — where The Guardian claims Assange is hiding out.
In a statement, Assange's lawyer in Sweden, Bjorn Hurtig, suggested that Assange is being retaliated against for the leaks.
"I do find it somewhat strange and to say the least `coincidental' that Interpol has made the arrest warrant public simultaneous to Wikileaks releasing its latest revelations," Hurtig said. "My mind remains open as to whether the prosecutor has been influenced by any third-party considerations."
Stephens — who also represents the AP on media-related matters — said that if Assange is ever served with a warrant, he will fight it in British court. "The process in this case has been so utterly irregular that the chances of a valid arrest warrant being submitted to me are very small," he said.
The Swedish case has been subject to a great deal of back and forth, with Swedish prosecutors repeatedly overruling each other and disagreeing over whether to classify the most serious accusation as rape.
WikiLeaks spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson said late Wednesday that the organization is trying to keep Assange's location a secret for security reasons. He noted that commentators in the United States and Canada have called for Assange to be hunted down or killed.
Sarah Palin likened Assange to an al-Qaida propagandist and accused him, without offering any proof, of having "blood on his hands."
"Why was he not pursued with the same urgency we pursue al-Qaida and Taliban leaders?" she asked in a message posted on her Facebook page.
"I think Assange should be assassinated, actually," Tom Flanagan, a former adviser to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, told the CBC. "I think Obama should put out a contract or maybe use a drone or something." Flanagan, a U.S.-born professor of political science at the University of Calgary, later apologized.
In Washington, the top Democrat and Republican at the Senate Intelligence Committee called on Attorney General Eric Holder to prosecute Assange for espionage. Committee chairwoman Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and vice chairman Sen. Kit Bond, R-Mo., said in a letter Thursday that they believe Assange's behavior falls under the Espionage Act, which makes it a crime to willfully pass on defense information that could hurt the U.S.
U.S. government lawyers are investigating whether Assange can be prosecuted for spying, a senior American defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said earlier this week. WikiLeaks has not said how it obtained the documents, but the government's prime suspect is an Army private, Bradley Manning, who is in the brig on charges of leaking other classified documents to WikiLeaks.
State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said WikiLeaks is not a news organization and Assange is neither a journalist nor a whistle-blower, but someone with a political agenda.
"I think he's an anarchist," Crowley said. He said Assange is "trying to undermine the international system that enables us to cooperate and collaborate with other governments."
"What he's doing is damaging to our efforts and the efforts of other governments," the spokesman said.
One batch of the latest leaked dispatches — these from the U.S. Embassy staff in Turkmenistan — portrays the president of the former Soviet state in Central Asia, Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov, as "vain, suspicious, guarded, strict, very conservative, a practiced liar," and "not a very bright guy."
According to another one of the cables, Georgia's ambassador in Rome claimed that Berlusconi was promised a cut of the profits in energy deals with Russia. Berlusconi denied the allegation.
The documents also included a frank assessment from the American envoy to Stockholm about Sweden's historic policy of nonalignment — a policy that the U.S. ambassador, Michael Woods, seemed to suggest was for public consumption only.
Sweden's military and intelligence cooperation with the U.S. "give the lie to the official policy" of non-participation in military alliances, Woods said. He added in a separate cable that Sweden's defense minister fondly remembers his time as a high school student in America and "loves the U.S."
Woods cautioned American officials not to trumpet Sweden-U.S. cooperation in the fight against terrorism too openly, because that would open up the Swedish government to domestic criticism.
In England, meanwhile, a front-page story in The Guardian alleged that one of the leaked cables showed British politicians trying to keep Parliament in the dark over the storage of American cluster bombs on British territory — despite an international ban on the weapons. Britain's Foreign Office denied the charge.

[Meerkat]

wow, im actually agreeing with you. world governments are afraid of him because they are so corrupt.

[Ari Ben-Canaan]

"Collateral Murder".

What kind of hero slanders US troops like that?

[Spiraling Leopard]

Normally they wouldn't lift a finger if someone got raped.

[WestCoastJTF]

"Collateral Murder".

What kind of hero slanders US troops like that?

I agree.  Assange is an irresponsible, dangerous nutjob.

If he had something that embarrassed Israel and endangered Mossad agents, he'd release it tomorrow. 

In fact, I think Wikileaks will exist up until the time they release something about Mossad...after which Mr. Assange will suddenly vanish ;-)

And I will say good riddance.

[Lewinsky Stinks, Dr. Brennan Rocks]

I agree.  Assange is an irresponsible, dangerous nutjob.

If he had something that embarrassed Israel and endangered Mossad agents, he'd release it tomorrow. 

In fact, I think Wikileaks will exist up until the time they release something about Mossad...after which Mr. Assange will suddenly vanish ;-)

And I will say good riddance.

Read my OP. I said unwitting hero. I don't think anyone seriously buys that he has goodness in his heart. That being said, the stuff he is doing/releasing is unintentionally helpful to Israel and all persons around the world being kept in the dark by their traitor so-called "democratic" regimes.

If he really had stuff to make Israel look bad, my guess is he would have released it a long time ago. But Anat Kam already did that and she is being treated like royalty by the whole world, even in Israel.

[White Israelite]

No specific opinion, I don't defend Assange but it shows that government will do whatever they can including false allegations to shut down people who oppose Uncle Sam. Scary stuff.

If they wanted to shut him down, why not just use an espionage charge rather than false rape charges? That's pretty low.

[Lewinsky Stinks, Dr. Brennan Rocks]

You know why White Israelite, because they are trying to discredit him and an espionage charge would just further his worldwide appeal.

[serbian army]

He is a good spy who probably works for Russians.

[Lewinsky Stinks, Dr. Brennan Rocks]

He is a good spy who probably works for Russians.

I don't care who he works for, I hope he continues to expose the lies and hypocrisy of the "democratic" world.

[syyuge]

Till he is not working against the real Jewish, he must be OK.

[Baltimore]

Read my OP. I said unwitting hero. I don't think anyone seriously buys that he has goodness in his heart. That being said, the stuff he is doing/releasing is unintentionally helpful to Israel and all persons around the world being kept in the dark by their traitor so-called "democratic" regimes.

If he really had stuff to make Israel look bad, my guess is he would have released it a long time ago. But Anat Kam already did that and she is being treated like royalty by the whole world, even in Israel.

"Hero" is obviously a strong word for Assange, BUT DBF again is on point with his analysis of the situation. I don't care why Assange did this, all I know is that what he has done has flustered and annoyed all of the enemies of the free world inside and outside of this country.

[muman613]

Read my OP. I said unwitting hero. I don't think anyone seriously buys that he has goodness in his heart. That being said, the stuff he is doing/releasing is unintentionally helpful to Israel and all persons around the world being kept in the dark by their traitor so-called "democratic" regimes.

If he really had stuff to make Israel look bad, my guess is he would have released it a long time ago. But Anat Kam already did that and she is being treated like royalty by the whole world, even in Israel.

"Hero" is obviously a strong word for Assange, BUT DBF again is on point with his analysis of the situation. I don't care why Assange did this, all I know is that what he has done has flustered and annoyed all of the enemies of the free world inside and outside of this country.

What he has done is damaged diplomacy with all of Americas partners in the world. That is not a hero, but a criminal.

I really do not understand why anyone here would consider him a hero. You all seem to think what was leaked was helpful for Israel but I see the exact opposite of that. I think the leaks will damage Israel in the long run. Please explain how this is helpful for Israel? Do you think the rest of the world sees it like that? I read the news sites around the world and only one article seemed to suggest that the leaks were helpful for Israel.

Could someone who supports the leaks please provide me a link by a news source which indicates that these leaks are helpful for Israel? That may sway my opinion of this... But I am really at a loss as to why anyone would support someone who posted stolen information which was classified secret by the American government, on foreign web servers, it seems like an act of war to me...

http://news.google.com/news/search?aq=f&pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&q=wikileaks+israel

[muman613]

Look at how this leftist site twists these leaks to indicate that America is trying to pursued the world into attacking Iran...



http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/46339
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War crimes in the Middle East

The leaked cables reveal how much US “diplomacy” in the Middle East has involved attempts to extend its “war on terror” to Iran.

Several Middle East countries including Israel, Saudi Arabia and Jordan were revealed to have urged the US to attack Iran to eliminate its nuclear program. Saudi ruler King Adbullah said the US should “cut off the head of the snake” and take military action against Iran.

The cables also revealed Saudi nationals remain among the biggest donors to Al-Qaeda and that the US considers Qatar an unreliable ally in the “war on terror”.

Afghanistan’s then vice-president Ahmed Zia Massoud was discovered carrying US$52 million in cash through Dubai airport in October 2009. A key US ally in Afghanistan, he was able to keep the money.

Most of the cables between Israel and US officials detailed “defence” cooperation and plots against Iran.

In April 2009, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told US diplomats: “If Iran goes nuclear, peace will fail.” In another cable, the United Arab Emirates military said it believed Israel would attack Iran “with little or no notice”.

A report from the US embassy in Tel Aviv said: “Netanyahu praised President Obama’s commitment to missile defense, and commented that US-Israeli cooperation on missile defense sends a strong signal to Israel’s enemies.”

Yet another cable said Netanyahu described Israel’s main threats as “Iran’s nuclear program, the build-up of rockets and missiles in Lebanon, Syria and Gaza and the Goldstone report”, which details Israeli war crimes — including the use of toxic white phosphorous on civilians — during its 2008-09 war on Gaza.

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[IsraeliGovtAreKapos]

Read my OP. I said unwitting hero. I don't think anyone seriously buys that he has goodness in his heart. That being said, the stuff he is doing/releasing is unintentionally helpful to Israel and all persons around the world being kept in the dark by their traitor so-called "democratic" regimes.

If he really had stuff to make Israel look bad, my guess is he would have released it a long time ago. But Anat Kam already did that and she is being treated like royalty by the whole world, even in Israel.

"Hero" is obviously a strong word for Assange, BUT DBF again is on point with his analysis of the situation. I don't care why Assange did this, all I know is that what he has done has flustered and annoyed all of the enemies of the free world inside and outside of this country.

What he has done is damaged diplomacy with all of Americas partners in the world. That is not a hero, but a criminal.

I really do not understand why anyone here would consider him a hero. You all seem to think what was leaked was helpful for Israel but I see the exact opposite of that. I think the leaks will damage Israel in the long run. Please explain how this is helpful for Israel? Do you think the rest of the world sees it like that? I read the news sites around the world and only one article seemed to suggest that the leaks were helpful for Israel.

Could someone who supports the leaks please provide me a link by a news source which indicates that these leaks are helpful for Israel? That may sway my opinion of this... But I am really at a loss as to why anyone would support someone who posted stolen information which was classified secret by the American government, on foreign web servers, it seems like an act of war to me...

http://news.google.com/news/search?aq=f&pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&q=wikileaks+israel

Are you an American or a Jew?

[muman613]

Read my OP. I said unwitting hero. I don't think anyone seriously buys that he has goodness in his heart. That being said, the stuff he is doing/releasing is unintentionally helpful to Israel and all persons around the world being kept in the dark by their traitor so-called "democratic" regimes.

If he really had stuff to make Israel look bad, my guess is he would have released it a long time ago. But Anat Kam already did that and she is being treated like royalty by the whole world, even in Israel.

"Hero" is obviously a strong word for Assange, BUT DBF again is on point with his analysis of the situation. I don't care why Assange did this, all I know is that what he has done has flustered and annoyed all of the enemies of the free world inside and outside of this country.

What he has done is damaged diplomacy with all of Americas partners in the world. That is not a hero, but a criminal.

I really do not understand why anyone here would consider him a hero. You all seem to think what was leaked was helpful for Israel but I see the exact opposite of that. I think the leaks will damage Israel in the long run. Please explain how this is helpful for Israel? Do you think the rest of the world sees it like that? I read the news sites around the world and only one article seemed to suggest that the leaks were helpful for Israel.

Could someone who supports the leaks please provide me a link by a news source which indicates that these leaks are helpful for Israel? That may sway my opinion of this... But I am really at a loss as to why anyone would support someone who posted stolen information which was classified secret by the American government, on foreign web servers, it seems like an act of war to me...

http://news.google.com/news/search?aq=f&pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&q=wikileaks+israel

Are you an American or a Jew?

What kind of question is that? Do all Jews have to support this? I asked a question and you avoided answering it... Please show me how this helps Israel...

[muman613]

The only way I could see that you would think this is good for Israel is if you think that Israel will attack without the support of America. I do not see that happening. Just explain to me why you see this as being beneficial for Jews and for Israel?

[Debbie Shafer]

I don't think the guy has a prayer!