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struggle4progress

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Fri May 31, 2013, 06:58 PM May 2013

How to lose friends: pastmaster Julian Assange disses another fan [View all]

31 May 2013

... Dominic Shelmerdine had stood outside the Ecuador embassy .. since June last year for several days a week to support the WikiLeaks founder.

Ten days ago .. the “staunch Tory Thatcherite” was minded to give up standing vigil on account of Assange’s failure to respond to his request to meet him for 10 minutes ... “Afterwards ..” Shelmderdine tells me, “.. I was called an MI5 agent by some of the demonstrators. While I have every respect for the dedication of the few (two) now left as regular outside supporters, I have definitely given up ... Assange takes them for granted and has a .. self-centred ego. He should go to Sweden, and stop wasting police time ... Jemima Khan was right ... he is making a mockery out of WikiLeaks. It is Bradley Manning .. who took the risks.”


http://www.standard.co.uk/news/londoners-diary/how-to-lose-friends-pastmaster-julian-assange-disses-another-fan-8639502.html

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