{"id":6722,"date":"2010-12-05T10:41:44","date_gmt":"2010-12-05T14:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=6722"},"modified":"2010-12-06T11:34:45","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T15:34:45","slug":"police-complaint-filed-after-tom-flanagans-fatwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/12\/05\/police-complaint-filed-after-tom-flanagans-fatwa\/","title":{"rendered":"Police complaint filed after Tom Flanagan’s “fatwa”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Consistency, people! If we condemn Islamic leaders who call for the death of people who “offend” Islam, we should also condemn Canadian political operatives who call for the assassination of Julian Assange<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Vancouver lawyer Gail Davidson filed a written complaint today (December 4) with Vancouver police and the RCMP against Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s former campaign manager, Tom Flanagan.<\/p>\n

Davidson alleged that on a November 30 CBC television broadcast, Flanagan “counselled and\/or incited the assassination of Julian Assange contrary to the Criminal Code of Canada”.<\/p>\n

Assange is the founder of Wikileaks, which is releasing 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables.<\/p>\n

On the Power and Politics<\/em> program hosted by Evan Solomon, Flanagan said: \u201cWell, I think [Julian] Assange should be assassinated, actually. I think Obama should put out a contract and maybe use a drone or something.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I doubt that the case will go very far, and it may not be meant to: it’s communicating a message.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Consistency, people! If we condemn Islamic leaders who call for the death of people who “offend” Islam, we should also condemn Canadian political operatives who call for the assassination of Julian Assange: Vancouver lawyer Gail Davidson filed a written complaint today (December 4) with Vancouver police and the RCMP against Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s former […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,84,9,10,53],"tags":[158,343,217,258,644],"class_list":["post-6722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-government","category-law","category-liberty","category-politics","tag-barackobama","tag-crimeandpunishment","tag-rights","tag-stephenharper","tag-wikileaks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1Kq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6722"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6757,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6722\/revisions\/6757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}