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In reply to the discussion: All in favor of detaining journalists or their significant others, raise your hands. [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)NOT a crime, in any democracy. The Daily Telegraph is a Right Wing publication. The paper that supports the Conservative Government currently in power over there, blindly.
The Telegraph is wrong, btw, not surprisingly, since a spokesperson on the issue has stated that 'This was done to send a Message, to the Guardian, to Greenwald, to put a stop to them writing about this story'.
So, there we have it, from the Horse's Mouth so to speak. The REAL reason for persecuting an assistant to a Jouralist. There was not 'more to it'. It was not 'less sinister than we think'. In fact is even more sinister than we thought.
Surely now that we have this statement no Democrat would think of supporting this Third World Dictatorship behavior??
Look I asked a simple question, a question people around the world from South America to Europe to here are asking today. 'When did it become a CRIME to assist two well respected Journalists in the writing of a news story?