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Assange上周五在卫报网站上回答了一些读者的提问,辞锋很犀利啊。摘了几个问答在下面,全文见http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/12/03/wikileaks.assange.qanda/index.html
(读者问他对澳洲的感情)
Julian Assange
I am an Australian citizen and I miss my country a great deal. However, during the last weeks the Australian prime minister, Julia Gillard, and the attorney general, Robert McClelland, have made it clear that not only is my return is impossible but that they are actively working to assist the United States government in its attacks on myself and our people. This brings into question what does it mean to be an Australian citizen - does that mean anything at all? Or are we all to be treated like David Hicks at the first possible opportunity merely so that Australian politicians and diplomats can be invited to the best US embassy cocktail parties.
(读者问他对加拿大总理的前高级幕僚声称应该刺杀他有何看法)
Julian Assange
It is correct that Mr. Flanagan and the others seriously making these statements should be charged with incitement to commit murder.
(读者问他对西方国家对WIKILEAK的态度与言论自由之间的关系的看法)
Julian Assange
The west has fiscalised its basic power relationships through a web of contracts, loans, shareholdings, bank holdings and so on. In such an environment it is easy for speech to be "free" because a change in political will rarely leads to any change in these basic instruments. Western speech, as something that rarely has any effect on power, is, like badgers and birds, free. In states like China, there is pervasive censorship, because speech still has power and power is scared of it. We should always look at censorship as an economic signal that reveals the potential power of speech in that jurisdiction. The attacks against us by the US point to a great hope, speech powerful enough to break the fiscal blockade. |
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