tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512362.post958069290319606104..comments2024-03-10T13:59:19.230-04:00Comments on xpostfactoid: Leadership alert: Obama's salute to Liu XiaoboAndrew Sprunghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17601269968798865106noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512362.post-69383197411064389352010-12-11T08:15:20.241-05:002010-12-11T08:15:20.241-05:00Sorry, but that's a false equivalence. There&...Sorry, but that's a false equivalence. There's a huge difference between persecuting a critic of the government and advocate for free speech and prosecuting a soldier who leaks classified documents. For Assange, the picture is more ambiguous, since he didn't steal the documents and has no obligation to the U.S. government, and prosecuting those who publish leaked documents is a dangerous precedent. But no government can simply brush off the massive indiscriminate release of documents chronicling its inner workings. There's a world of difference between trying to find a way o sop such massive disclosure and simply quashing dissent.Andrew Sprunghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17601269968798865106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512362.post-34255056038212636142010-12-11T01:23:32.355-05:002010-12-11T01:23:32.355-05:00Before we get all lathered up here, we had better ...Before we get all lathered up here, we had better make the odious comparison between China and the U.S. as to “freedom of speech” and such efforts to obtain and keep the rights of citizens vis a vis the persecution of overpowering governments. There Liu Xiaobo, and there’s Julian Assange and Bradley Manning.پیش ساختهhttp://www.ptec.conoreply@blogger.com