Wikileaks Calls for Sarah Palin's Arrest

[Joanne98]

The official Twitter account for Wikileaks has posted a press release this evening drawing a comparison between the controversial rhetoric from public figures that some believe contributed to the attempted assassination on Saturday of Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and the even more explicit calls from public officials for violence against Wikileaks spokesperson Julien Assange and others. The organization called for public figures making such calls to violence to be arrested and charged with crimes.

Assange is attributed the following quote in the release: "No organisation anywhere in the world is a more devoted advocate of free speech than Wikileaks but when senior politicians and attention seeking media commentators call for specific individuals or groups of people to be killed they should be charged with incitement -- to murder. Those who call for an act of murder deserve as significant share of the guilt as those raising a gun to pull the trigger." The release pointed to specific high-profile calls for Assange's assasination by Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee and others and concluded with a link to the website PeopleOKwithMurderingAssange.com.

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/wikileaks_calls_for_sarah_palins_arrest.php

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[ananda]

1. Good for them!

I just get so upset when good guys get targeted.

[valerief]

2. It's sedition! nt

[Demeter]

3. Hear! Hear!

It is incitement to murder, and should be dealt with the full force of law.

[midnight]

4. I happen to agree..... Palin and crew have been inciting much

violence.....

[Raschel]

6. I suppose she didn't mean any harm by that.

She compared him to Al Quaida and the Taliban and says Assange should be "pursued" in the same way.

But she hates violence and war.

[femrap]

5. I agree w/ him....

our culture has lost all civility...we are now to the point to inciting murder. They should be held accountable.

Palin took down her 'map of targets' because she knew she was guilty.