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Assange lawyer grounded by authorities?

April 19, 2012 11:17

Human rights activist and WikiLeaks lawyer Jennifer Robinson was stopped at a London airport on the basis that she is on an “inhibited fly list.” Her Australian colleagues reacted with uproar, demanding an explanation.

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Michael (unregistered) 23.04.2012 02:19

It amazes me, after all the information that has come out from wiki leaks, and who do they want to charge, not the Barclays people who have been helping some customers to systematically assist clients to avoid huge amounts of tax they should be liable for across multiple jurisdicti ons., no, that would be too easy. Trafigura the Minton report assesses an incident involving this company and the Ivory Coast town of Abidjan—possibly most culpable mass contamination incident since Bhopal. Again no. What about Tony Blair for his lying to the government and the British public over the “weapons of mass destruction” in Iraq .Once again no. They want to prosecute the guy who made the information public knowledge. Now, this has been a lesson for reporters, don’t print things we say not to print or you will be next. Not that most of the media haven’t been doing just that for the last ten years, most of them belong to friends of the government. What have we learned from this, we have learned that it never pays to tell the truth, especially when it involves he governments of the world,, and big business.

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jojo manjo 21.04.2012 15:44

The US/Europe are behaving like the despots of South East Asia eg Suharto, Marcos, Lee Kwan Yew, Dr Mahathir, the Burmese generals, and of course the Thais. Looks more and more like the infamous Gang of Four from China, except it is more than Four.The world is power crazy and greedy. Pity the poor countries.

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zooropa 19.04.2012 23:07

Oh Glenn ! It's that same clip again ! Have you still the link on the one about what the Ruskies are planning ?

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lmllr1 19.04.2012 23:06

This is indeed ridiculous. If lawyers need to fear taking on "contraversial" clients, we have no hope of maintaining a "justice" system worthy of that name. Lawyers are paid to do a job; they should never be implicated in the activities of their clients.

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truthworld 19.04.2012 22:50

jews community are panic, assange is coming.anglo/jews day are number.

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zooropa 19.04.2012 22:42

Hi Glenn ;-)  Off to watch your vid..

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AussieJohn 19.04.2012 21:43

Dex wrote in #18
COMEON! AUSSIES IS THIS WHAT WE GET FOR FREEDOM OF SPEECH, To hell with the British and Australian goverments. We must stop paying taxes to the monarchy. At least I am a proud Aussie and no one can take that away.
I wasn't aware that Aussies pay taxes to the monarchy. It's the carzy greenie controlled government that our taxes go to and sadly not for a good cause but to waste and to destroy Australian economy.As far as freedoms go then Australia has had very strict movement control over its citizens for at least 15 years. While the UK and US never checked people leaving the country then Australia always did. For me it is always a very unpleasant procedure as one never knows what the almighty computer may say about a person. Australian immigration computer is linked to Centrelink and the Tax office and these guys are well known for wanting citizens for an "interview" over nothing. To make things even worse, an Australian citizen cannot be absent from a country for more than 13 weeks. After that s/he becomes a non-resident which will lead to the loss of residency, unless there is a trip back to Australia. Can you believe this? An Australian citizen will lose residency if s/he is absent from the country for longer than the government likes! I do not know any other country in the world with more oppressive rules than this.

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wild sausage 19.04.2012 17:39

   : )    slow clap  &nbs p; very clever   - did nothig exept expose another idiot against truth  &nb sp;    ;   & nbsp;  &nb sp; -    mr assange did nothing wrong in his show just stating the obvious   - please please please  the public need a list of those public servants unfit for there duties

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Dex 19.04.2012 16:39

COMEON! AUSSIES IS THIS WHAT WE GET FOR FREEDOM OF SPEECH, To hell with the British and Australian goverments. We must stop paying taxes to the monarchy. At least I am a proud Aussie and no one can take that away.

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zoo 19.04.2012 15:49

@smj  There is something going on with the HAARP project btw...

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duncan.lucas@btinternet.com 19.04.2012 14:50

Well I better not try and go abroad .Denied entry=denied entry.to western countries.The UK is only copying the USA .She would be "held for questioning" for several days.As most of the posters here said the UK/USA are turning their countries into a far right "HELL" for its citizens as regards FREEDOM of speech=freedom of travel=ALL your communications monitored! I thank GOD I am old =But I really feel for young people who grow up in these countries.The amount of restrictions that will be applied to them ALL their lives.Wont be able to speak out or they will be "CLASSIFIED" as "enemy of the state".At least I remember how we had some freedom The young people never will!

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zooropa 19.04.2012 14:34

@smjTouche !  My sense of humour's not what it used to be.  I maybe used your mail to get a point across.

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The Beak 19.04.2012 13:48

The British Capitalist protect Press Freedom when it can be used to fool people as Captian Rupert Murdoch. He made millions illegally supporting various British Govts regardless of Party. Labour or Conservative it doe not matter once to System is in place for Capitalist exploitation. These contradictions will be resisted until socialism emerge by consesus. Karl Marx said " Workers of the World Unite and Fight you have nothing to loose but your chains". Now the English together with the Europeans workers will loose their shirt and pants and starve to death while Murdoch and Company print sensationalism masking reality blinding the working man.  

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SMJ 19.04.2012 13:47

Zooropa - I apologise I wasn't being serious it was a joke. If you look at the comments left on any article relating to anything on this RT website - someone will blame the Jews/Zionists for it - yes even natural disasters like earthquakes it's all their fault! I was just trying to point out how utterly ridiculous it is to blame them for everything and the constant claims that they are taking over the world or somehow control it secretly is utter rubbish - anyone with half a brain cell and a decent grasp of international politics or a vague understanding of how the world works will tell you so. In any case the fastest growing religion on the planet is indeed Islam - Islam on the other hand is evil and really does cause earthquakes (JOKE!)

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Ricky1962 19.04.2012 13:45

SMJ wrote in #10
But wait a minute fellow RT nuts I have just read on a seperate website about our dear friend Julian that he/Wikileaks employs 'a number of Jews' and enjoys lots of Jewish support across the world - surely not! Aren't we supposed to hate the Jews because they are obviously trying to take over the world (or have they taken over the world already? I can't keep up) especially in China it's filled with Jews over there! In fact I know for a FACT that the Chinese are All secretly Jewish Zionists waiting to take over the world) and of course the Jews and Zionists cause earthquakes, tsunamis and tornadoes on a regular basis - global warming too aren't the Jews to blame for global warming? We should be told.  You are a Zionist disinformationist.

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zooropa 19.04.2012 13:36

@smj  Stuff should never be about 'jews'. Look at the growing numbers of jews across the world (including Israel) who are protesting against the warmongering policies of Israel & the US/UK etc. There is a nasty faction within the Jewish community, which we know as zionists. But don't play the old Jew-hater card. The only way not to be labelled anti-semitic these days is if you actually kill 100 Muslims.

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