Julian Assange : “Credit should be given where it is due, but it should be withheld where it is not”

At the 67th General Assembly, Thursday 27 September 2012, Julian Assange addressed the representatives of the United Nations member countries on Human Rights via satellite and blasts “absurd McCartyhism”.

Fine words languish without commensurate actions. President Obama spoke out strongly in favor of the freedom of expression : "Those in power," he said, "have to resist the temptation to crack down on dissent”
He could not be more spot-on, as Obama's empty promises in Ghana, Cairo and in the white house to young African entrepreneurs. Support for dictators reaches heights.
Julian Assange : "There are times for words and there are times for action. The time for words has run out".

Made his address from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he took shelter in June after losing a court battle to avoid extradition to Sweden. The WikiLeaks founder fears that Sweden, which wants him for questioning over allegations of sexual assault, will extradite him to the US for his role in leaking thousands of secret diplomatic and military cables.

Highly critical of US involvement in the Arab Spring, denounced Obama as audacious for exploiting it, adding that it is "disrespectful of the dead" to claim that the US has supported forces of change : "Was it not audacious for the US President to say that his country supported the forces of change in the Arab Spring?”

“Tunisian history did not begin in December 2010, and Mohamed Bouazizi did not set himself on fire so that Barack Obama could be re-elected," he told the panel.

"The world knew after reading WikiLeaks that Ben Ali and his government had for long years enjoyed the indifference, if not the support, of the US, in full knowledge of its excesses and its crimes. So it must come as a surprise to the Tunisians that the US supported the forces of change in their country, and it must come as a surprise to the Egyptian teenagers who washed American tear gas out of their eyes, that the US administration supported change in Egypt", he added

The Ecuador FM : “Assange's right to freedom must be respected, I don’t know any case in history where diplomatic asylum did not end in freedom for the person. I hope this will not be an exception in history. Every country must respect the right of the country granting asylum and the person who was granted it."