Exclusive Julian Assange Interview With Cenk Uygur (Mirrored)

Transcript: http://tinyurl.com/24nwcxu

Cenk Uygur (host of The Young Turks) interviewed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan show. They discussed critics of Assange, the treatment of Private Bradley Manning and more.

Portion of Transcript:

CENK: Well Julian I want to get to as much as possible here so I want to give you a chance to respond one by one to your critics, first to Mitch McConnell who is of course the leader of the Republicans in the Senate and to Joe Biden who both said that called you a high tech terrorist how do you respond to Joe Biden the Vice President of the United States saying that to you?

JULIAN: Well let's look at the definition of terrorism, the definition of terrorism is a group that uses violence or the threat of violence for political ends now no one in our four year publishing covering over 120 countries has ever been physically harmed as a result of what we've done. Now that's not just us saying that, that's the Pentagon saying that, that's NATO and Kabal saying that. No one, not a shred of evidence. Now believe me if they could find or even easily manufacture a shred of evidence they would be doing that immediately so it's clear that whoever the terrorists are here it's not us. But we see constant threats from people, Republicans in the Senate trying to make a name for themselves, to people like Sarah Palin to Shock Jocks on Fox and unfortunately some members also of the Democratic party calling for my assassination calling for the illegal kidnapping of my staff and just a few days ago on Fox that was the phrase that was used "illegal, he should be illegally murdered if necessary, assassinated by the law if possible if not illegally" what start of message does that send about the rule of law in the United States? That is conducting violence in order to achieve a political end the elimination of this organization or the threat of violence to achieve a political end the elimination of a publisher and that is the definition of terrorism.

CENK: Now I want to give you a chance to respond personally though because here Mike Huckabee is making it very personal you saw that quote we had up, he says "I think anything less than execution is too kind a penalty for you" Sarah Palin saying that you are like Al-Qaeda and the Taliban and that you should be pursued with the same urgency so how would you respond to Mike Huckabee who is a top Republican leader, likely to run for President again. How would you respond to Sarah Palin, top Republican leader who might run for President again?

JULIAN: Oh it's just another idiot trying to make a name for himself, but it's a serious business I mean if we are to have a civil society we cannot have senior people making calls on national TV to go around the Judiciary and illegally murder people that is incitement to commit murder that is an offense you cannot have senior people on national TV asking people to commit an offense. That is not a country that obeys the rule of law. Does the United States obey the rule of law, because Europeans are starting to wonder whether it is still obeying the rule of law and it needs to be very careful is it going to descend into an anarchy where we don't have due process where those great Bill of Rights traditions about due processes thrown to the wind whenever some shock jock politician just thinks that they can use it to make a name for themselves? Or do we take things according to laws expressly made by the people and their representatives that is the way things should be done and when people call for illegal deliberate assassination and kidnapping of others they should be held to account they should be charged for incitement to commit murder.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Wikileaks
• Assange
• Hillary
• Clinton
• Alex
• Jones
• Gaddaffi
• Berlusconi
• Bradley
• Manning
• Antoine
• Dodson
• bed
• intruder
• cablegate
• leaks
• pentagon
• freedom
• press
• media
• journalism
• extradition
• terrorism
• treason
• 1984
• 2012
• nwo

[GIspecialty]

All what wars? Beside the war on terrorism what are you talking about? Dragging you in? What, you Aussies cannot make up your own minds? Your liberal concepts are absurd. Corrupt govts is something new to you? Corruption always exists in every enviroment and always will. You are an idealist and that way of thinking is dangerous when people are trying to kill you. You are weak. Julian Assange is a pathetic liberal with daddys money. Wake up and realize you have discovered nothing new.

[aliceincode]

@GIspecialty Your the idealist man .. for starters JA has no daddy and his mummy is far from got money ... so get out of here!!

[aliceincode]

@GIspecialty Go Away!!

[GIspecialty]

@aliceincode Excuse me for the error. When the reporter working with assange asked him how he felt that the info he was releasing could get afghan civilians killed, assange said any afghan cooporating with coalition forces deserves to die. He is a pathetic anitwestern antius scumbag who needs a hellfire missle lesson. he can no longer claim his innocence. he is advocating and aiding in the deaths of afghans and coalition forces. That makes him a legitimate target.

[franny231123DMT]

@Glspecialty: no one is attacking you. thats the 1st lie.

[aliceincode]

@GIspecialty It's not an Idea it's a fact .. look it up yourself .. go to the UN website and look up AGENDA 21

[GIspecialty]

@aliceincode I have to give you credit. That is the most deranged idea I have ever heard.

[aliceincode]

@GIspecialty Do you believe our Governments are working for our good then? .. they are not they are intending to bring the West down!! .. It's a plan they have been working on for some time now!! They are transferring the wealth of the West to the East where they have slave labor!! .. Obama is a Muslim do you really believe he gives two hoots about America!! .. cmon Man we have a lot of work to do and Assange is on OUR side!! I KNOW OK!!

[GIspecialty]

@aliceincode It would be nice to stop wars. But if the people that attacked you will not, then what do you do? Have them read Cablegates?One day you will realize that good intentions get more people killed than anything else. Read some world history and see what pacifism has done. Do not rely on these liberal idiots, assange, michael moore, bill maher, to give you a viewpoint. If you are serious about learning something then look for yourself.

[aliceincode]

@GIspecialty I do not HATE America .. I LOVE America .. I just wish you would STOP all the WAR and dragging us in with you .. You are now an army serving the Elite while they Rob you blind!! ... We been through a lot over here building our country out of nothing and the information Julian Assange has given us has allowed us to start pulling this corrupt governments apart .. same for the UK and all the other countries in the world .. you need to read the Cablegates (obvious you have not)