QT: If Assange was in China doing the same thing, the West would have called him a dissident and giv

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QT: If Assange was in China doing the same thing, the West would have called him a dissident and given him a Nobel peace price.
--Marce Elizeche Lando

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[brocktownsend.livejournal.com]

Right on!

[schrathe.livejournal.com]

He would also be dead.

[lds.livejournal.com]

Beat me to it. I was going to add, "...posthumously."

[ernunnos.livejournal.com]

No, we don't generally give peace prizes to partisans. Julian Assange's primary concern is not human rights, it's defeating the U.S. in Afghanistan. The 1st Amendment is just one of the weapons he thinks he can use in that fight. He's not even asserting that anyone's rights are being trampled, much less trying to restore them. He's taking it for granted that he has those rights, in service to a different goal.

This is actually a form of back-handed compliment. If this were China or Russia, he'd already have committed suicide with two shots to the back of his own head. It's not, and he knows it. Counts on it.