U.S. Celebrates Wikileaks Arrest By Announcing Press Freedom Day
Wikileaks’ Julian Assange is arrested on suspicion of rape; today U.S. State Department drops this gem: “The United States is pleased to announce that it will host UNESCO’s World Press Freedom Day event in 2011 in Washington, D.C.” Oh my. The undercurrent of the rape charges brought by two women in Sweden has been—by some, not all—that they are trumped up in an attempt to silence Assange. Be that as it may, they at least deserve their day in court. That something as relatively incidental to international security as a sex crime has been pursued by the likes of Interpol, however, does little to dispel the idea that perhaps Assange is getting special attention because of his day job.
