Complaint Filed Over Call to Assassinate WikiLeaks Founder

[Hissyspit]

Source: Vancouver Sun

Complaint filed over call to assassinate WikiLeaks founder
 
BY MIKE BARBER, POSTMEDIA NEWS DECEMBER 6, 2010 12:09 AM
 
A B.C. lawyer has filed a complaint with the Vancouver police, urging them to investigate whether Tom Flanagan, a former campaign manager for Prime Minister Stephen Harper, broke the law when he said WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should be assassinated.

Gail Davidson, a co-founder of the group Lawyers Against the War, wrote in the complaint that, on Nov. 30, Flanagan "counselled and/or incited the assassination of Julian Assange contrary to the Criminal Code of Canada," while commenting on the CBC program Power & Politics. Flanagan, a political-science professor at the University of Calgary and Harper's campaign manager in 2006, said he thought Assange "should be assassinated, actually. I think (U. S. President Barack) Obama should put out a contract and maybe use a drone or something."

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Flanagan has since issued a statement apologizing and said that he was not being serious.

Assange, for his part, has said the professor "should be charged with incitement to commit murder." "We can't just take to the airwaves suggesting that various people be killed," Davidson told Postmedia News on Sunday. "I know that if it were me, if he had said, 'I'd like to see Gail Davidson assassinated,' I wouldn't take it lightly."

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[whatacountry09]

1. if only we took breaking the law that seriously...

look at all the complaints that would've been filed against all our Fox News "government officials".

[rpannier]

2. Ahhh... The old "I was joking." defence

It's pathetically lame.
Everyone knows he wasn't joking.
But no one in power will do anything about what he said.

[Billy Burnett]

6. Indeed. And Rushed Limpballs, Sean Insannity, and Glenn BeKKK are comedy acts.

:eyes:

[activa8tr]

3. Hmm... there are now about a half dozen regular faces on Fox News who have ...

called for the same thing! Can we get them arrested ? I'd LOVE that!

Huckabee, Gingrich, Hannity, Beck, O'Reilly... I'm sure I'm leaving someone out. Sarah something?

[melm00se]

4. it's not the ones that loudly

proclaim that they are going to do something that you need to worry about. It's the soft spoken one sitting in the corner, appearing to mind his own business that you have to worry about.

[InkAddict]

5. You've got it wrong again...

Loud or quiet, those with the exceptional portfolios are the most worrisome - economic terrorists, all, since loud public words only have consequences for those without the means to attract an exceptionally louder lawyer or those who are quietly complicit to bigger crimes they don't want exposed.