What to the following people and organizations all have in common?
Bill Kristol
Bill O’Reilly
Sarah Palin
Mike Huckabee
Kathleen McFarland
Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs
Mark Joyella
Jeffrey Kuhner
Tom Flanagan, spokesman for Stephen Harper
New Gingrich
Bob Beckel
Bo Dietl
Marc Thiessen
John Hawkins
Christian Whiton
Jonah Goldberg
Answer: They have all called for the murder of Julian Assange.
Attorney General Eric Holder and Vice President Joe Biden are more restrained – Biden only called him a “terrorist.” Under the “who says A must say B” dictum, that is as good as a death sentence. Holder is merely pursuing Assange with all his heart and soul, apparently working with Karl Rove* to capture him and bring him to American justice via Sweden.
His crime? Journalism. It is not widely practiced here, and usually punished.
Here are some pithy quotes from Ms. Assange:
“For four years, [documents were leaked] and his life wasn’t in any threat. But then when the documents came to the Wikileaks drop box on America, things all changed. For some reason, it was alright to produce documents about other countries, but as soon as the United States was embarrassed, his life became threatened.
From the beginning, politicians and news commentators were screaming out for his murder in the most brutal way. There seemed to be no filter at all on how they were feeling, calling out for brutal forms of murder, inciting murder against my son.
Indeed, as threats by people on the list above (most of whom are American journalists) demonstrate, Assange is badly in need of asylum. The question is, can Ecuador protect him from American assassins?
I doubt it. The “lone nuts” are probably lined up, cleaning their weapons even as we speak. From the Rolling Stone interview:
Assange recently spoke to someone he calls a Western “intelligence source,” and he asked the official about his fate. Will he ever be a free man again, allowed to return to his native Australia, to come and go as he pleases? “He told me I was fucked,” Assange says.
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*The linked Andrew Kreig article explains the Rove/Obama alliance in this matter as “strange bedfellows.” If only … if only people understood that Obama and Rove are only perceptually in opposite camps. They play enemies on TV. They are allies.
Piece of Mindful 
Would you have defended the Rosenbergs?
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That’s daft! Are you really equating the two? Do you understand the meaning of the word “journalism?” (Hint – it is not mindlessly repeating what people in power tell us.)
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I see little difference, secrets given to our enemies.
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The only people kept in the dark here are the American people. “Journalism” means to learn what powerful people are doing and reporting back to us. How were our “enemies” informed of anything they didn’t already know when Wikileaks disclosed the murder of civilians from that helicopter?
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Let’s get back to basics here – is it right to call for the murder of a person without due process – judge, jury, trial and all of that? Isn’t that like bing a thug, a mobster? Are you some kind of Obamabot, thinking it is OK just to murder people when you feel like it?
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