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struggle4progress

(118,285 posts)
Tue Dec 16, 2014, 03:18 PM Dec 2014

Assange inspires a new generation of activists!

Police have identified the man who took 17 people hostage at a Lindt cafe in Sydney's Martin Place on Monday as 50-year-old Man Haron Monis ... In December 2013 Monis was charged with being an accessory to the murder of his ex-wife, and given bail ... Monis was also facing more than 40 sexual and indecent assault charges ... Monis denied the charges against him, which he described as politically motivated. He compared the accusations of sexual assault to the case of Julian Assange, founder of the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks ...

Man Haron Monis: 'Damaged' and 'unstable'
16 December 2014
Last updated at 05:32 ET
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Assange inspires a new generation of activists! (Original Post) struggle4progress Dec 2014 OP
Quick, get that statue of Assange on its feet right fucking now! randome Dec 2014 #1
Discussing the accessory-to-murder charge will only confuse everybody struggle4progress Dec 2014 #2
 

randome

(34,845 posts)
1. Quick, get that statue of Assange on its feet right fucking now!
Tue Dec 16, 2014, 03:33 PM
Dec 2014

How does an accessory to murder rate bail?
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struggle4progress

(118,285 posts)
2. Discussing the accessory-to-murder charge will only confuse everybody
Tue Dec 16, 2014, 04:38 PM
Dec 2014

We need to focus on the fact that the authorities launched a campaign to intimidate this heroic journalist into silence, by filing forty charges of sexual assault against him. And the campaign is on-going: one day he posts on his website to expose the terrorism of America and their allies Australia -- and the very next day he's under arrest for allegedly taking hostages at the Lindt Cafe! And then suddenly the Prime Minister is claiming the man "has a long history of violent crime"

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