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Australian Prime Minister cannot name any laws that Julian Assange has broken, opposition spokesman says he has broken no laws
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 1174986:MV8xMjgwMzgyXzIwOTE1NDM2X0VDOTQzMDNG] [quote:Anonymous Coward 1185500] Julian is guilty of refusing to be subservient to tptb. They will find some 'law' to breech him on, so they can silence him. They've got a Parliament, they could try MAKING a law to lock him up with. However, there is no guarantee they could get the law through the House of Representatives and the Senate. And plus it would probably make "whistleblowing" illegal. [/quote] I read a story about a guy who tried to blow the whistle on corrupt Centrelink employees. They pretended to be his friend and interested in his facts. In the meantime, they were investigating him, looking for a way to frame him to discredit him. They then enacted a law, under which to prosecute him, and then erased the law once they had used it, just the once. The law itself didn't even make sense. They can do whatever they want, to whomever they want. Do they care about the PR affect of their actions in the long term. Na! [/quote]
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They want to lock up Julian Assange. But he hasn't broken any laws in Australia or USA. So how can they lock him up??? (Nobody knows what will happen to him in Sweden.) They can't lock him up just because they don't like him or what he does. That would be dictatorship.
"Prime Minister Julia Gillard again has been unable to name any Australian laws broken by the controversial WikiLeaks website or its founder Julian Assange."
"Opposition legal affairs spokesman George Brandis accused Ms Gillard of being "clumsy" with her language on the issue of illegality.
"As far as I can see, he (Mr Assange) hasn't broken any Australian law," he told Sky News.
"Nor does it appear he has broken any American laws."
Senator Brandis, a Queen's Counsel, called for any debate about the publishing of the cables to have a well-defined understanding of the difference between something which appeared to be morally wrong and an act which was illegal.
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