LINK“As WikiLeaks stands under threat, so does the freedom of expression and the health of our societies,” said Assange.
“We must use this moment to articulate the choice that is before the government of the United States of America. Will it return to and reaffirm the values it was founded on? Or will it lurch off the precipice dragging us all into a dangerous and oppressive world in which journalists fall silent under the fear of prosecution and citizens must whisper in the dark?”
“I say that it must turn back,” he continued. “I ask President Obama to do the right thing. The United States must renounce its witch hunt against WikiLeaks. The United States must dissolve its FBI investigation. The United States must vow that it will not seek to prosecute our staff or our supporters.”
Assange, who was recently granted political asylum by the government of Ecuador, has been held up in the country’s embassy in London since June 19, 2012. The UK has stated that it will not grant Assange safe passage out of the country.
A drone strike (or a late night visit from the Navy Seals) would be the right thing to do. His head on a pike would be the right thing to do. Disemboweling him and making him watch would be the right thing to do.
This cretin thinks he can indirectly kill dozens of our covert operatives, call it freedom of expression and suffer no consequences?
I would put him and Bradley Manning in a room with two knives and tell them that whoever survived would only suffer castration rather than death.
