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Originally Posted by finnbow

Two points to counter the lovely Sarah -

1. Nobody has kept silent about Assange. It's all over every newspaper and TV news show. Silence, indeed. Maybe it's because she doesn't read newspapers.

2. By definition, Assange is un-American. He's Australian.

She gives ignorance a bad name.

Finn - when you take a quote out of context and put your own spin on it, you can make anyone sound ignorant. By "silence", her quote was an observation that some organizations/individuals fear the reprisals that have been visited on her, Mastercard, Paypal, the Swiss government, etc. by the Wikileaks "cyber-mafia" hacker commuity. It wasn't about "media" silence.

Un-American - yes, an incorrect modifier. "Anti" would have been a more appropriate modifier, and would be quite descriptive of the apparent mindset of Mr. Assange, as well as some on the left in our own country.