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WikiLeaks boss Assange acted as a foreign spy, Uncle Sam exclaims in fresh rap sheet

Sanguma

Re: This will be fun to watch...

"the US Constitutional protections do not only apply to citizens but to all." "the free speech, due process and self-incrimination ones are not so restricted"

And you'd be right. The United States through the medium of a group of rectal cleaners known otherwise as the Organization of american States, has given birth to an American Convention on Human Rights

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Convention_on_Human_Rights

which in keeping with standard US practice, it refuses to ratify - because, horror of horrors, the victims of US interference in the Americas over the past century or so, might want to take it up with Uncle Sam, and Uncle sam doesn't like having his feet held to the fire ...

And then there's the European Convention on Human Rights

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Convention_on_Human_Rights

which given that Assange is a resident in one of the signatories, happens to apply. Not forgetting that Assange is an Aussie, and the Commonwealth of Australia is a signatory to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Covenant_on_Civil_and_Political_Rights

which again Uncle Sam has signed but refuses to ratify.

There is a very strong presumption that Uncle Sam is violating the plain words, let along purpose, of the US Constitution by arguing that publishing information on illegal US activities is espionage, when it seems to me it is merely being a middleman between the suppliers of the information and the journalists who use it. As far as I can see, the case most similar to it would be the Pentagon Papers one, the NY Times versus Uncle Sam, in which Uncle Sam got roundly trounced.

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