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In reply to the discussion: Assange didn't ask for consul meeting - PM [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)you. This is not the first time Assange has had to hide from an oppressive regime. Chinese dissidents, eg, journalists in places like El Salvador or now, Honduras, Cuba and elsewhere would be entitled to asylum based on being persecuted, and many times killed as in Honduras right now, because of refusing to be silenced.
Wikileaks' founding included many Chinese Dissidents who wanted to get around their own government's oppression of the press after Tiananmen Square.
Journalists are always at risk in oppressive states and have many times sought asylum because of the threat to their lives.
I do not know why you are trying to so hard to defend the oppression of a multiple award-winning International News Organization founded BECAUSE of the persecution of the press and whistle-blowers to give them a venue to get the truth out without being identified.
As I said, Wikileaks was revered by the Left from the time of its inception because it was the answer to the suppression of actual news throughout the Bush years when the US Media sunk to third world status on the Free Press chart worldwide.
What happened? Does the 'left' no longer support freedom of the press? What a terrible shame to see this flip flop here in the US ON the left. I used to think that we on the left had real principles and would stick to them no matter what. I learned a lot over the past few years.