WikiLeaks Founders Prosecution: A Brazen Effort to Kill Alternative Media & The Internet

Kurt Nimmo
http://www.infowars.com/
http://www.prisonplanet.tv/
Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Now that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is in custody, we can expect the U.S. government to request his extradition and prosecute the Australian for espionage. "Any such proceedings would set up a test of whether the First Amendment's protection for a free press extends to a website with a worldwide audience," notes McClatchy today.

The Supreme Court rejected a Nixon administration effort to stop the New York Times and the Washington Post from publishing the Pentagon Papers.




In 1917 the United States enacted the Espionage Act, a law that has made it a crime to "willfully communicate" secret government information that could expose national secrets held by officialdom. Since the law was passed, however, the government has avoided prosecuting journalists for publishing classified information.

"The First Amendment's freedom of speech and the press has protected journalists in the past, though it is not clear whether the courts would consider Assange a journalist," writes McClatchy.

Assange's "actions are not those of a responsible journalist that would enjoy the protection of the Constitution," opines Jeffrey H. Smith, a former general counsel at the CIA. Government, of course, will decided what is responsible and irresponsible journalism and the high court will enshrine this in law.

The establishment -- including its highest court -- may eventually restrict the First Amendment and have its protection apply only to selected corporate media journalists and other propaganda functionaries of the elite.

Any such ruling by the Supreme Court will send a message to investigative journalists and alternative news organizations and publications -- you will be prosecuted for revealing "government secrets," in short it may soon be illegal to report information the government wants to keep hidden from the American people.

According to a Congressional Research Service analysis, the Supreme Court has not resolved the question of "whether, in cases where information has been acquired unlawfully by a newspaper or by a source, government may ever punish not only the unlawful acquisition, but the ensuing publication as well."

In 1971, the Supreme Court rejected a Nixon administration effort to stop the New York Times and the Washington Post from publishing the Pentagon Papers. Nixon's effort to prosecute leakers Daniel Ellsberg and the late Anthony Russo -- who were not journalists, but RAND corporation researchers -- was dismissed due to "prosecutorial misconduct."

The Supremes indicated, however, that it would have been possible for the government to prosecute the newspapers involved.

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[seansuxatcs]

Alex has warned us a week ago that his channel has been banned from Youtube and Google! Do not listen to any of his videos after November 29th!

The globalists are using Alex to lead us to break more and more laws in order to imprison us, torture us and shut us up! They want to label us as DEVIANTS! This is what real Alex has been warning us about! They are creating false perception and delivering manipulated messages to control us like A BUNCH OF PUPPETS!

THIS IS NOT THE REAL ALEX JONES!

[smokescreen767]

The politicans assholes who send our troops to die in a warzone are not terroist, but Julian Assange who reports the atrocities of the war is a terroist. When the government starts shooting the messenger that is the down fall of our society. We The People do not have any power.

[anewgift4u]

Alex has an important role in working for the conspiracy. If it were not for him I would never have heard of half this shit. None of it has come to fruition and where does Alex get all this information from? Where's his staff? How can he afford to do this service and why hasn't he developed a solution? Because whether or not he is aware of his role being one knowingly, he is effectively providing the function of alarming you to their plan. Alex, what are you doing to provide an answer?

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[EngineerAdams]

Jesus you people are insane.

[fabes0011]

hey, assange is australian citizen. so US govt and other govt's should back off. another thing, that socialist gillard is a moron. she said that he and wikileaks committed crimes and are illegal. then the AFP (australian federal police say he committed no crimes and now is saying he is being irresponsible. amazing, simply amazing. and now assange is thinking about suing gillard. that is funny. well, you don't have believe in the 9/11 and the other things to see that something is wrong here.

[JagdtygerII]

whether you think Asange is a CIA plant to further the NWO or a crusading journalist, as long as he and those like him exist, we have a slim chance of finding out the Truth.

Without the Freedom of the Internet, we are doomed to be controlled and manipulated by whom ever controls the Media, just like the Citizens of Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia.

[orchoose]

@LordFeeblelongdick how sad world u live u:(

[orchoose]

maybe its just what i was waiting for... he mentaly breaks... there is to many issuess he try to cover and he belive, that this all have to take some cost on his mental healt.. I think he did some great work in the past , but now? u realy want him to have some real power? srsly?:D

[fablan6]

@seansuxatcs And who is he? A robot? I never seen this show before anyway.

[TheNavigateur]

@seansuxatcs Funny, hehe

[justinotherguy1000]

@seansuxatcs You're prob right, I don't know whether to trust Alex anymore. He's starting to make me think he might be a part of the propaganda machine. If he was "for the people" why doesn't he let us comment on his website anonymously, you have to "sign up". Then, what happens Alex? Do you sell your user lists?

NOT SURE WHO IS TELLING THE TRUTH ANYMORE.

He does sound like he's trying to incite violence.

Prove me wrong Alex...let us comment anonymously. Restore my faith!!!!!