WikiLeaks founder wants Flanagan charged over flippant assassination comments
Posted Dec 3, 2010 12:42:38 PM.
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OTTAWA – The founder of WikiLeaks says Stephen Harper’s former adviser, Tom Flanagan, should be charged with incitement to commit murder for suggesting he should be assassinated.
Julian Assange was speaking in an online forum run by Britain’s Guardian newspaper and was asked about flippant comments Flanagan made on a television broadcast this week.
Assange says Flanagan and others are “seriously making these statements” and should be charged with “incitement to commit murder.”
Flanagan mused on a CBC political talk show panel that U.S. President Barack Obama should consider using a drone or other means to assassinate Assange.
The University of Calgary professor has since apologized for the remarks, saying he wasn’t seriously suggesting Assange should be killed.
Flanagan has not been a Harper adviser for years and the Conservative government has disavowed all connection to him in recent days.
