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struggle4progress

(118,268 posts)
Fri Sep 28, 2012, 11:27 AM Sep 2012

Assange mocks Obama via video at U.N. event (Reuters via Chicago Trib)

September 26, 2012|Brian Winter | Reuters

... Assange mocked Obama for defending free speech in the Arab world in an address to the United Nations on Tuesday, pointing to his own experience as evidence that Obama has "done more to criminalize free speech than any other U.S. president" ...

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-09-26/news/sns-rt-us-un-assembly-assange-ecuadorbre88q03v-20120926_1_britain-and-ecuador-european-government-sources-ecuadorean-embassy

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Assange mocks Obama via video at U.N. event (Reuters via Chicago Trib) (Original Post) struggle4progress Sep 2012 OP
I am so very tired jehop61 Sep 2012 #1
+1000..n/t monmouth Sep 2012 #2
Same here leftynyc Sep 2012 #4
GOLDSTEIN!!1 frylock Sep 2012 #3
his story has just begun because he is right. Assange was just the publisher and is not guilty of larkrake Sep 2012 #5
But he may be guilty of rape and he's avoiding prosecution for those allegations. pnwmom Sep 2012 #6

jehop61

(1,735 posts)
1. I am so very tired
Fri Sep 28, 2012, 11:30 AM
Sep 2012

of reading about this little man. His fame has peaked and do we really have to see what he has to say about anything? Let him face the authorities in Sweden and explain his innocence (if he is ).

 

leftynyc

(26,060 posts)
4. Same here
Fri Sep 28, 2012, 12:09 PM
Sep 2012

An attention whore. We've got bigger things to deal with. Hope he enjoys living in that embassy.

 

larkrake

(1,674 posts)
5. his story has just begun because he is right. Assange was just the publisher and is not guilty of
Fri Sep 28, 2012, 12:24 PM
Sep 2012

espionage. It is Hillary who is behind this-she was embarrassed and she does not forgive. Obama merely gave her this bone.

pnwmom

(108,973 posts)
6. But he may be guilty of rape and he's avoiding prosecution for those allegations.
Fri Sep 28, 2012, 02:35 PM
Sep 2012

That's what the extradition is about, no matter how Assange and his lawyer try to throw sand in our eyes.

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