[Marxism] Assange: Australia has abandoned me
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This brings into question what does it mean to be an Australian citizen - does that mean anything at all? Or are we all to be treated like David Hicks at the first possible opportunity merely so that Australian politicians and diplomats can be invited to the best US embassy cocktail parties.'' http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/australia-has-abandoned-me-20101204-18kpq.html -- “Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is humanity’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.” — Oscar Wilde, Soul of Man Under Socialism “The free market is perfectly natural... do you think I am some kind of dummy?” — Jarvis Cocker Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Assange: Australia has abandoned me
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Naive, no? - Original Message - From: Stuart Munckton stuartmunck...@gmail.com Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Assange: Australia has abandoned me
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Naive, no? What else is he meant to say? He has big support in Australia, with anger over Australia's disgraceful treatment of him. Surely the right thing to do is condemn and expose this to seek to build pressure on Australian government to reverse this. There will be protests in Wikileaks defence and against Australian government joining persecution of Assange. Stuart Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Assange: Australia has abandoned me
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I mean it's not like there isn't lots of evidence of Australia towing the US line in the past, sacrificing its democracy to ensure good relations with the US. I do think making this a question of his rights as an Australian citizen can confuse some people over what, IMO, is the central issue: - which is the political struggle, the class conflict at the heart of US actions, at the heart of the US diplomatic cables, the nature of capitalism generating war, deceit, destruction, distortion, as part of its everyday reproduction. It's like making the arrest of anti-war activists an issue of free-speech, or civil liberties rather than manifestations of a social conflict. Look, he didn't leak all these documents because he agrees with US policy. The US isn't after him because he leaked documents-- there after him because of the content of the documents. There's nothing wrong, and everything right with defense of Wikileaks and against the Australian government, but attempts to build pressure on the Australian government to protect Assange's democratic rights as a citizen risk canalizing the conflict into one of due process into one of form, rather than one of content, opposition to power. Now that being said-- I have already contributed to his defense fund... and will distribute as many of the documents as I can if the site gets taken down. - Original Message - From: Stuart Munckton stuartmunck...@gmail.com To: sartes...@earthlink.net Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
