Julian Assange's speech at the Ecuadorian embassy

[jonb]

My personal feeling are that one of the things that is outstanding about European, American, Australian etc culture is the individual, that people who are creative and awkward and don't fit in can be driving forces for the whole culture, and a protection of that individual has been the ability to escape from the jurisdiction of the rulers he has just upset, like Voltaire, Wagner, Paine etc. It seems we need countries which are against our governments to safeguard our liberties.