[LINK] Getup joins the WL party

[Rick Welykochy]

Someone on Link as the pertinent question: where is GetUp?

They took a few days to get rolling, but are now publishing an
ad in the form of a letter in the New York Times. You can sign
the statement before it goes live here:

<http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/Wikileaks>

The statement:

Dear President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder:

We, as Australians, condemn calls for violence, including assassination,
against Australian citizen and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, or for
him to be labeled a terrorist, enemy combatant or be treated outside the
ordinary course of justice in any way.

As Thomas Jefferson said, "information is the currency of democracy."
Publishing leaked information in collaboration with major news outlets,
as Wikileaks and Mr. Assange have done, is not a terrorist act.

Australia and the United States are the strongest of allies. Our soldiers
serve side by side and we’ve experienced, and condemned, the consequences
of terrorism together. To label Wikileaks a terrorist organisation is an
insult to those Australians and Americans who have lost their lives to acts
of terrorism and to terrorist forces.

If Wikileaks or their staff have broken international or national laws, let
that case be heard in a just and fair court of law. At the moment, no such
charges have been brought.

We are writing as Australians to say what our Government should have: all
Australian citizens deserve to be free from persecution, threats of violence
and detention without charge, especially from our friend and ally, the United
States.

We call upon you to stand up for our shared democratic principles of the
presumption of innocence and freedom of information.


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cheers
rickw


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