Tom Flanagan Calls for Assassination of Julian Assange
LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – Tom Flanagan has called for the assassination of Julian Assange, Ecuador doesn’t want Assange either, and Assange’s lawyer says his client is being persecuted in Sweden.
Tom Flanagan is currently a Canadian political science professor at the University of Calgary. But this week, the former chief of staff to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said that Assange should be assassinated by the U.S.
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The remarks came during a CBC news program Tuesday evening. As transcribed by British news, Flanagan said: “I think Assange should be assassinated, actually. (laughs) I think Obama should put out a contract or use a drone or something…. I wouldn’t feel happy, uh, unhappy, if Assange disappeared.”
Interpol, reports NPR, has issued a Red Notice for his Assange’s questioning. But Assange better not head to Ecuador; the country has retracted its safe haven offer.
The offer by Kintto Lucas was retracted Tuesday. Lucas had said “We are open to giving [Assange] residency in Ecuador, without any problem and without any conditions”. “[The offer] has not been approved by Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino – or the president,” President Rafael Correa said in a news briefing yesterday.
Meantime, Assange’s lawyer Mark Stephens says that his client is being subjected in Sweden to a “a persecution and not a prosecution.”
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on December 1st, 2010 at 9:16 am
email tflanaga AT ucalgary.ca to tell him what you think.
Also…. repost his email address so it stays at the top of the comments!
Personally, I think people who want others to be killed for? just speaking the truth about injustices, should themselves be killed.
on December 1st, 2010 at 11:01 am
On Tom Flanagan s remark: what is your definition of hate speech.
on December 3rd, 2010 at 9:14 am
Wow. What an idiot! And he was in the cabinet of the Canadian prime minister? Is that the solution that the former canadian government would offer to anybody that challenges authority, kill them? Seriously, what an idiot. WL is doing the world a favor by exposing major lies of governments. You should say “thank you” you idiot, because WL is making the world a more transparent place by its actions, and fighting for freedom of all people.