In Online Interview With EL PAÍS Julian Assange Shares A PDF List Of The Threats He's Endured

[Turborama]

Julian Assange: "Geopolitics will be separated into pre and post 'Cablegate"

JOSEBA ELOLA - Madrid - 12/05/2010

Saturday the 4th of december. 6.41 pm. Julian Assange seats in front of his computer for a chat interview with EL PAÍS. Interpol is looking for him. His webite is under constant attacks. The 39 year old Australian, and Wikileaks founder, says he has a terrible headache. The last 24 hours were tough.

Q. I read you are taking steps to protect yourselves (you and other people from Wikileaks) after receiving many death threats ¿Where are those death threats coming from?

A. We have hundreds of specific death threats from US military militants. That is not unusual, and we have become practiced from past experiences at ignoring such threats from Islamic extremists, African kleptocrats and so on. Recently the situation has changed with these threats now extending out our lawyers and my children. However it is the specific calls from the elites of US society for our assassination, kidnapping and execution that is more concerning. These range from a US senate bill by John Ensign which seeks to declare us a "transnational threat" to assassination calls from former Bush speech writers such as Marc Thessian in The Washington Post and Bill o'reilly of Fox news.

Q. Your children? How were they threatened?

A. I believe it is better to not encourage these ideas too much by talking about them. However some rightwing sites also called for attacking me via my children*. I predicted this might happen since April, so since that time I have had to stay away from my family.

Wait a moment. I'll get you some evidence.

Assange sends a document with a list of all the threats the organization has endured these days. (8 page PDF) http://filebin.ca/jzzfz/ListPeople_AssangeCriminalized.pdf.

There are more. That is some one of our lawyers found.

Full interview: http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/Julian/Assange/Geopolitics/will/be/separated/into/pre/and/post/Cablegate/elpepuint/20101205elpepuint_3/Tes


*I've seen that some lunatic whackjob has made a blog post about using his son Daniel as bait for an assassination attempt. I've been reluctant to post a live link here and in respect of what he says above I'm glad I didn't.

He also says later in the interview that Obama should resign if he knew about and approved the espionage in the UN...

"Obama must answer what he knew about this illegal order and when. If he refuses to answer or there is evidence he approved of these actions, he must resign."

[kgnu_fan]

1. Read the PDF file.

[Turborama]

2. Nevermind

[stray cat]

3. He isn't in jail like the person he got to hand over the info - isn't he the true DU hero?

[northernlights]

5. they are both heros

Assange, not only for making the information public, but for deliberately making himself the primary target in order to protect the whistleblowers.

The whistleblower is in jail for sharing details of his whistleblowing with a hacker who turned him in.

[HipChick]

4. Condie Rice did the same things Clinton requested

So why isn't he calling her out and that administration....his agenda is slowly dripping out slowly, and yet he is celebrated as a DU hero here...

He has more chances of being felled by an STD...

[Catherina]

6. Rec'd. Appalling. Prosecute them all for inciting voilence. n/t

[HipChick]

7. Unrec'd..pdf is nothing more than a list of reactionary articles..He's playing victim now?

If he is all for transparency why isn't he naming names of all the kooky threats he's got?

What did he think was going to happen?


As another DU'er posted...He did what he did and now he's gonna have to live with the consequences. I really can't say I have a lot of sympathy. I'm not sure what his agenda is, I thought he has some cojones,but he certainly seems to be whining a lot lately.