So Wikileaks is down this morning, and conservatives across the world are calling for murder of the messenger. I took a tiny stand today to the National Post. The NP were strong defenders of press freedoms when the Liberals came calling on them, maybe they can pushed to help others too.

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I was extremely disappointed to see Tom Flanagan’s comments advocating Julian Assange “should be assassinated” relegated to only a short blurb, without editorial comment. Tom Flanagan is a driving force of the Conservative Party of Canada with senior access to their policy process. Such a person issuing the moral equivalent of a Fatwa on a reporter for leaking material needs to be held to the highest scrutiny. Other conservatives in the U.S. are also calling for his murder, and this will be seen as international support at an official level from Canada.

Regardless of how any organization feels about the legality of publishing leaked material clearly what Mr. Assange has done is no different morally than what the National Post and every major media organization in the world has done when they have published portions of the same material made available to them. Will you protest after they come for your writers who are doing the same as Wikileaks, or will you stand for freedom of the press now?