Harper Advisor Calls for Assassination of Wikileaks Director

[Hissyspit]

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looncanada | November 30, 2010 | 61 likes, 34 dislikes

In a shockingly flippant comment to a Canadian television news anchor Evan Solomon of the CBC News Network on live TV, Tom Flanagan, a senior advisor and strategist to the Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper today called for the assassination of Wikileaks director Julian Assange . It is believed to be the first ever televised "fatwa" since the edict by the Iranian leadership of the late Ayatollah Khomeini against British writer Salman Rushdie in February 1989. Amazingly, although news anchor Solomon afforded Flanagan the opportunity to retract his statement, Flanagan balked at doing so and instead reiterated that U.S. President should put out a "contract" on Assange or use "a drone" and that he would not be unhappy if Assange "disappeared." Flanagan who is a trusted member of PM Harper's inner circle of Tory strategists joins Sarah Palin in calling for the death of the Wikileaks director as retribution for the website's release of confidential diplomatic and intelligence "chatter" this week.

[Nostradammit]

1. Rumor has it this is dude's e-mail addy -

[e-mail]


Can't verify, but maybe we should all say "hi" to him.

[tomm2thumbs]

2. that guy is harboring some real issues, no?

wondering what the file must have on him

[florida08]

3. he's feeling manly?

Arm chair warriors often fail and we've been poisoned by these fairy tales

[Tunkamerica]

4. Um... Pat Robertson calling for Hugo Chavez's assasination.

[BrklynLiberal]

5. Oh crap...the "disease" is spreading to the North.

[polly7]

6. Day by day they get more disgusting.. Harper and his psycho little band

of useless, puppet armchair warriors need to go ....... now. My stomach reels ......

[cascadiance]

8. How would he feel if someone else called for his assasination for doing this?

He's advocating a crime (and claiming he's doing so because he's feeling "manly").

If he feels it justified to advocate one crime to go after someone he doesn't like, then he should perhaps wonder if others might do the same to him.

[polly7]

9. Our own little Carl Rove.

"It doesn't have to be true. It just has to be plausible." - Flanagan.

[TatonkaJames]

7. Iran and it's Arab neighbors

How long have we been reading comments about our "partners" in the ME not talking trash or
standing up with us against Iran ?
Well, now that Iran knows how Saudi Arabia and it's neighbors feels, I would think this leak was a good thing ?

[DeSwiss]

10. If you want to "feel manly...."

...don't use Old Spice, have someone assassinated.

- I am so sick and tired of these goddamned creeps!

K&R