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The Persecution Of Julian Assange
I disagree with the release of so many confidential diplomatic messages. I see no benefit from it at all but I will defend, with my life if necessary, the right of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks to publish them.
Those vile and fascist Americans who have called for his assassination are guilty of incitement to murder. If they set foot on British soil they should be arrested immediately. They disgrace their great country and its constitution.
Assange is a fool and WikiLeaks is irresponsible but these are questions of degree and judgement. If there is wrongdoing in the information they have it should be released. If it is just mischievous exposure of confidential and private correspondence then it is wrong.
I am in great difficulty over the denial of bail. The charges are clearly preposterous, incredible and politically motivated. He surrendered voluntarily to the police. On balance, particularly given the sureties offered by John Pilger, Jemima Khan and Ken Loach, he should not have been remanded in custody. He is to apply again and I pray that British justice, so often wanting of late, will rise to the challenge.
Release Julian Assange. Protect him from the Americans.
Idiotic Israelis, Insane Islamists
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It astonishes me the bigotry, intolerance and crass stupidity demonstrated by so many who write for one side or the other on the terrible conflict in the Middle East.
Many of them are erudite and eloquent, passionate and caring – but only of their own cause.
I thought (maybe I’m wrong) that part of the idea of blogging was to comment on each other’s writing and participate in debate.
No chance!
So many of these obviously intelligent people censor comments that they disagree with and deem anyone who disagrees with them as a fascist, racist or xenophobe. The vitriol I’ve attracted from some is almost unbelievable. They can’t understand that in one article I can condemn the evil behaviour of the Israelis and in the next I condemn the great evil that Islam has become. I can call some Israeli behaviour fascist. I can call some Islamists perverters and defilers of Islam.
Some of these bloggers write (rant) at the most incredible length. They probably don’t have the benefit of my experience from which the most important thing I’ve learned is that even those people who agree with you will get bored if you go on and on and on and on and on…
It’s just a tip which you can ignore if you want but if you can’t get your point across in a couple of hundred words then maybe you should think again!
One individual (who I won’t embarrass by linking to), told me today that offering a link to my post on the subject was “an advert”, referred me to his “comments policy”, suggesting that I am a “xenophobic bigot”.
I explained to him that my comments policy is “please do”!
Written by Peter Reynolds
June 9, 2010 at 3:45 pm
Posted in Politics, The Media, What is this blog about?
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