Defend Wikileaks and Julian Assange! Australia should break the military alliance with US!
Julian Assange.
By the Socialist Alliance (Australia)
December 7, 2010 – "The Australian government should defend and support Wikileaks and its founder Julian Assange and their efforts to expose the lies, duplicities and outright crimes of the US government and its allies", said Peter Boyle, national convener of the Socialist Alliance on December 7.
"We condemn the Australian government for collaborating with the US government in hunting Julian Assange down. The exposure of classified US government cables and other material by Wikileaks is an enormous plus for all those who are fighting for truth and democracy, and against war and exploitation. Wikileaks and Assange deserve our strongest support.
"The Wikileaks exposures are not a threat to life and safety. Rather, the forces that want to silence Wikileaks are the most deadly threat to human lives, as Wikileaks releases of US documents on the bloodbaths in Iraq and Afghanistan so dramatically show.'The Labor government must immediately guarantee that it will extend to Assange the basic rights of any other Australian citizen... It must also offer no assistance at all to the brutal US campaign to close Wikileaks and silence Assange.'
"The Australian Labor government must immediately guarantee that it will extend to Assange the basic rights of any other Australian citizen to return to Australia and get any consular support and assistance requested.
"It must also offer no assistance at all to the brutal US campaign to close Wikileaks and silence Assange.
"An Australian government acting in the interest of the people would do everything in its power to protect Assange from the grave threats that have been made to arrest or even assassinate him for what he has done.
"It would offer to help keep the Wikileaks websites up, in the face of mounting cyber attacks and denials of service and hosting. And it would refuse to cooperate with any attempts to have Assange detained and or extradited."
"A government for the people would also help maximise Wikileak's exposure of the war criminals and immediately break the Australian-US military alliance", Boyle said.
The Socialist Alliance is joining with other groups and individuals in a campaign of solidarity with Wikileaks, and to force Prime Minister Julia Gillard government to abide by its responisbilities to Julian Assange as an Australian citizen.
[Visit the Socialist Alliance website at http://www.socialist-alliance.org.]
I Agree
I agree to this. Not only Australia. Every country should break alliance with US on this issue. Wikileaks has done great for the humanity by disclosing the evil of US. Hats off to its founder.
Yes, I agree too!
Yep, absolutely. Not only that but every country should think careful of whether to continue with the US on this. A great discovery recently, really.
Lunar Right puppet Glenn Beck gives Socialist Alliance a plug
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcz912H0SeQ
Media coverage of Socialist Aliance statement and support for Wikileaks rally in Brisbane (same article):
http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/supporters-of-wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-to-rally-in-brisbane/story-e6frfku0-1225967503665
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/supporters-of-wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-to-rally-in-brisbane/story-e6frf7jx-1225967503665
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/8178453/assange-supporters-to-rally-in-brisbane
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/breaking-news/supporters-of-wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-to-rally-in-brisbane/story-e6freuyi-1225967503665
Where is our Freedom of speech ?!
I can't believe they did that to Wikileaks , whether it's on the newspaper or the web it's the same thing ! We should have our freedom to write anything we want !
Wikileaks is the only site that had the guts to expose the truth !
Wikileaks
Governments seem to be damn frightened of losing their credibility and power these times. Why would they otherwise fight Wikileaks that hard? Censoring has always focused public attention on the censored content. I'm afraid their second strategy is more clever: discrediting the leakers.
I wish Wikileaks all the best. Freedom of information and communication will be a crucial fight over the next years.