[Peace-discuss] Gracias, Ecuador!!

[Carl G. Estabrook]

Exactly. The Obama administration is the most repressive toward free speech since the First World War.

That's not an abstract comparison. Obama has already used Wilson's draconian Espionage Act (which is about suppressing political opinions, not spying) at least a half dozen times against journalists - more than twice as often as it was used in all the years between its passage, in 1917, and Obama's inauguration. Obama's violations of the Constitution here should be added to the list that includes assassination (even of American citizens) and claims of the power of indefinite detention without trial. 

What will it take to restore the Constitution in the US? --CGE


On Aug 16, 2012, at 10:54 AM, Rohn Koester <rohnkoester at gmail.com> wrote:

> Today's NYT story includes the fact that Assange once stayed with a friend and apparently didn't flush the toilet often enough. Thanks for that.
> 
> Is this real-time irony? Even now, secret diplomatic cables are being sent back and forth about the possibility of storming the Ecuadoran embassy and/or generating the right combination of incentives to prompt Correa to change his mind and turn over Assange. Unless someone like Bradley Manning risks his life to send these communications to some outlet like Wikileaks, and someone like Julian Assange risks his life to publish them, we won't ever know. The Obama Administration is willing to torture and kill to maintain that silence.
> 
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Karen Medina <kmedina67 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yay, Ecuador. 
> 
> 
> 
> GREAT NEWS -- Ecuador came thru for Assange!! 
> 
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