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Assange:
WikiLeaks to release over a million new docs in 2013
RT,
"My freedom is limited, but I am at least able to communicate. Unlike Gottfrid Svartholm, Jeremy Hammond, Nabeel Rajab, Bradley Manning," Assange said.
“Every country in this world!” he reiterated, trying to speak over the crowd of cheering supporters.
The WikiLeaks boss also mentioned his plans to run for a seat in the Australian Senate, indicating confidence that he would win next year’s federal election. “In Australia, an unelected senator will be replaced by one that is elected,” he stated.
Assange praised the Ecuadorian government and other Latin American governments for showing how cooperation and shared values can embolden countries to “stand up to coercion and support self-determination.”
“Their governments threaten no one, attack no one, send drones at no one – but together they stand strong and independent,” he stated.
“Ordinary people here in the West are now the enemy of governments, an enemy to be watched, an enemy to be controlled,” he said. “True democracy is the resistance of people armed with the truth against lies, from Tahrir to right here in London.”
Supporters of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange hold a vigil ahead of his appearance and speech at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London December 20, 2012.(Reuters / Luke MacGregor)
Despite
all the difficulties the WikiLeaks faced in 2012, Julian Assange
vowed to publish some 1,000,000 new documents in the coming year. In
his Christmas speech he called for people to continue fighting for
democracy “from Tahrir to London.”
RT,
20
December, 2012
WikiLeaks
founder Julian Assange appeared on the balcony of London’s
Ecuadorian embassy at 19:00 GMT welcoming the cheering crowd in the
street.
The
whistleblower, who took shelter there in June, said he was very
grateful to people who provided him refuge and supported WikiLeaks
and recalled the names of those who were “unlike
him in prison tonight.”
"My freedom is limited, but I am at least able to communicate. Unlike Gottfrid Svartholm, Jeremy Hammond, Nabeel Rajab, Bradley Manning," Assange said.
WikiLeaks
already has over a million documents nearly ready for release
– “documents
that affect every country in the world,” according
to Assange.
“Every country in this world!” he reiterated, trying to speak over the crowd of cheering supporters.
The WikiLeaks boss also mentioned his plans to run for a seat in the Australian Senate, indicating confidence that he would win next year’s federal election. “In Australia, an unelected senator will be replaced by one that is elected,” he stated.
‘We
continue to stand up to bullies’
Assange praised the Ecuadorian government and other Latin American governments for showing how cooperation and shared values can embolden countries to “stand up to coercion and support self-determination.”
“Their governments threaten no one, attack no one, send drones at no one – but together they stand strong and independent,” he stated.
The
power of people uniting to speak up and resist terrifies corrupt and
undemocratic powers, Assange said, adding that every day ordinary
people teach us that democracy is free speech.
“Ordinary people here in the West are now the enemy of governments, an enemy to be watched, an enemy to be controlled,” he said. “True democracy is the resistance of people armed with the truth against lies, from Tahrir to right here in London.”
Supporters of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange hold a vigil ahead of his appearance and speech at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London December 20, 2012.(Reuters / Luke MacGregor)
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