President Correa on Assange in a recent interview.

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39. Ecuador's laws re libel and slander are similar to those in the UK.

It was used successfully against the right wing 'media' who were actually working for outside sources against their own government. And I can assure you that, 1st Amendment or not, if any major publication became a threat to this government by promoting violence and treason against the government, they would not just be sued, they would be charged.

And if you do not believe that, then look at the topic of the OP. Elected officials in this Government have called for the DEATH of a multi-award-winning Publisher and Editor of an International News Organization. And many more have called for the prosecution of that same journalist under the vile Espionage Act.

Thankfully we still have people like John Conyers who has opposed these frightening attacks on the rights of the Press to publish news. Surely, since you are so upset with a libel suit in Ecuador against a lying, vicious right wing propaganda machine, you must be outraged over the attacks on Wikileaks by our own government officials.