My apologies but I had intended to send this message to a friend in the US. Had no intention of posting it to the list. MY MEGA APOLOGIES!!!! We are in the middle of a huge rain storm and it started to thunder so I quickly sent my messages before shutting down and did not notice my mistake. Again my sincere apologies for posting a private political message to the whole list!!!! Peter ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter A. Kincaid" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 8:52 PM Subject: [KINCAID] Wikileaks >I wonder how regular Americans like yourself is looking > at the Wikileaks situation. What seems to be the > consensus there? > >>From an outside perspective listening to American media > the West is taking a big hit on this. It is not from the release > of the information though, but on how American officials are > reacting to it. The US is supposed to be for free speech and > rule of law but are openly calling for the assassination or jailing > of Julian Assange without him being charged with any crime. > There was a crime committed but it was by an American in their > own system. The New York Times published the same data but > nobody is trying to assassinate them or bring financial ruin on > this newspaper. Some top American officials (Lieberman for > one) called for Assange to be brought to the US and charged > with treason. Treason is a crime against one's own country. > Assange is an Australian and never was an American. > > All in all, the US is looking real bad as these people seem to > think that when someone pisses them off then their laws > to get them should apply to the whole world. On the other > hand their free speech rights and rule of law rights don't apply. > I am hoping that the warped perspective only applies to the > American media. > > Peter > > P.S. Don't get me wrong in that I certainly don't blame the US > governement for trying to punish Wikileaks business wise. > To see the Kincaid of all spellings DNA chart in Excel: > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~adgedge/Research/April%202004/Kincaid%20%20DNA.xls > > To join the DNA project, go to: > www.familytreedna.com/group-join.aspx?Group=Kincaid&Code=J21027 > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message