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20th May 2016 from TwitLonger
Assange statment on #AFPraids #ozpol #auspol
Friday May 20, 2016 13:04 AEST
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) raids on the opposition (ALP) cannot be tolerated. Raiding a suspected media source for a story embarressing to the government is bad enough. But to raid the opposition during a federal election campaign in order to hunt down the source of such stories makes Australia look like it has become an asian democratic backwater. Of course, it is hard for me to personally have much sympathy for the hypocritical ALP, which created what it called a 'whole of government' task force against me, which included the AFP, in-order to ingratiate itself with the US. But this isn't about ALP or the government. It is about the rights of all Australians to know what their government is up to. When the opposition and the media work together to publicly reveal infrastructure mismanagement they are doing their jobs and doing it well. When police conduct raids on the opposition during an election to hunt down media sources they are not only not doing their job--they're stopping all the rest of us from doing ours. It is not the role of policemen to interfere with elections, whether at their own iniative or at the behest of the government.
Julian Assange