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FF4m3
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Re: Assange makes 1st public appearance in 2 months

said by Name Game:

Ok.. treason is off the table ..

Perhaps not completely -

Government considered Assange treason charge - March 12, 2011:

The Australian government discussed the charge of treason - the most serious of federal offences and one that carries a mandatory life sentence - when it examined the WikiLeaks matter last year.

The advice, in a departmental briefing for the Attorney-General, Robert McClelland, was among several documents published yesterday by the department in response to Senate estimates questions.

It was provided by a senior officer in the Attorney-General's Department in September, after WikiLeaks published 90,000 US military reports filed during the war in Afghanistan.

In December, after WikiLeaks released 250,000 confidential US State Department cables, Mr McClelland instructed federal police to examine whether any Australian laws had been broken. The police said no Australian offence had been committed.

However, on September 20 the department gave Mr McClelland's office a briefing note that mentioned treason under the heading ''Commonwealth offences relating to unauthorised disclosure of information''. It said: ''This offence carries a penalty of imprisonment for life.''

Only the most trenchant critics of WikiLeaks have discussed treason. In November the Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee said whoever gave the material to WikiLeaks was guilty of treason and ''anything less than execution is too kind a penalty''.

Sarah Palin said the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, should be ''hunted down'' and an adviser to Canada's Prime Minister called for his assassination.

Don't know if this is still an active consideration.

Name Game
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Name Game

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did you research it then ?..in any case..Australia is not looking for him or want him to come home..so I think it is out of the equation if you are trying to make him a martyr..Sweden get's him first.

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FF4m3

Anon

said by Name Game:

if you are trying to make him a martyr

I posted a factual article published in The Sydney Morning Herald. What's your problem?

Link Logger
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said by FF4m3 :

said by Name Game:

if you are trying to make him a martyr

I posted a factual article published in The Sydney Morning Herald. What's your problem?

The posted article is pretty clear and even clearer now after a year and a half from when the article was published, the Aussies are considering their options and responsibilities (given Assange is Australian) and have yet to exercise anything concerning Assange (and unless something changes, I doubt they ever will), which means the hair under those tin foil hats has gotten much longer and much stinkier for nothing so far, but by all means keep them on as I'm sure a vicious commando strike by the aussies is just around the corner (and by vicious I mean they will be short a case of Fosters and a couple of shrimp for the BBQ). This attack will likely take place sometime mid September to the end of October 2015 with aussie commandos posing as rugby players for the 2015 Rugby World Cup which was ingeniously planned to occur in England just for this raid on the Ecuadorian embassy in London.

How long can the spin doctors keep spinning?

Blake

FF4m3
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FF4m3

Anon

said by Link Logger:

The posted article is pretty clear and even clearer now after a year and a half from when the article was published, the Aussies are considering their options and responsibilities (given Assange is Australian) and have yet to exercise anything concerning Assange

Correct.
said by Link Logger:

I'm sure a vicious commando strike by the aussies is just around the corner (and by vicious I mean they will be short a case of Fosters and a couple of shrimp for the BBQ). This attack will likely take place sometime mid September to the end of October 2015 with aussie commandos posing as rugby players for the 2015 Rugby World Cup which was ingeniously planned to occur in England just for this raid on the Ecuadorian embassy in London.

You're getting lots of use from your time machine. You should give a heads up to the TSA and pitch your plot to the SyFy channel.

Link Logger
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Link Logger

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said by FF4m3 :

pitch your plot to the SyFy channel.

More likely the comedy channel with Ben Stiller as Julian Assange.