Assange: Reelected Obama a 'wolf in sheep's clothing'

Published time: November 08, 2012 12:49
Edited time: November 08, 2012 16:51
Julian Assange (AFP Photo / Miguel Medina)

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange sees no reason to celebrate the reelection of US President Barack Obama. The US aggressively pursued and “persecuted” the whistleblower site under a Democratic administration, he explained.

“Obama seems to be a nice man, and that is precisely the problem,” the 41-year-old told AFP, speaking from his room in London’s Ecuadorian embassy.

“It's better to have a sheep in wolf's clothing than a wolf in sheep's clothing,” he said. “All of the activities against WikiLeaks by the United States have occurred under an Obama administration.”

Assange was equally critical of the Republican, saying it “has not been an effective restraining force on government excesses over the last four years.”

"There is no reason to believe that will change – in fact, the Republicans will push the administration into ever greater excesses," he added.

The WikiLeaks founder sounded hoarse, but refused to comment on his health. Last month, Ecuador said it had requested a meeting with British officials to discuss claims that Assange was losing weight and suffering vision problems.

Assange claimed asylum in the embassy in June to escape extradition to Sweden for questioning over sex crimes allegations. He denies the charges, and believes that if extradited he would then be sent to the US, which regards him as an enemy of the state, where he would face prosecution and possibly the death penalty.

WikiLeaks angered Washington in 2010 by publishing hundreds of thousands of classified US documents on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as diplomatic cables from US embassies around the world. Washington retaliated by forcing companies to cut off WikiLeaks’ sources of funding.

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Mish (unregistered) 15.12.2012 06:33

Quote: 2cents (unregistered) wrote in #19 We need wikilieaks to find out who these puppets like NObama n Hitlary are taking orders from behind the scenes.  These telepromt readers are just hores to the real evil behind the curtain.  We need to expose who's behind the curtain for any chance to survive.Unquote: I can tell you the answer of your question. The people running this circus is The Rothschild Family in connection with the Rockefellers. All the power comes from finance capital. The bankers and thier families. That is the top of thier pyramid so to speak.

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D'artagnan 11.11.2012 22:38

Obama is not the problem but an out of control intelligence and military is. Now that Petraeus is exiting the world stage big changes are going to be possible. Such as an easing of the U.S. pressure on Great Britain to grab Julian. Also the way is now much clearer to seeing the U.S. finally out of Afghanistan and Iraq soon.

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J.S Church 11.11.2012 14:35

Allie F. (unregistered) wrote in #10
“The danger to America is not Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America . Blaming the prince of fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince.   The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools, such as those who made him their President.”
If we're all fools then why do we rule the world? What does that say about the rest of you?

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