Lula Defends WikiLeaks, Offers Brazil’s ‘Solidarity’

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

Source: Bloomberg

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva defended Julian Assange, founder of the WikiLeaks.org website that published more than 250,000 of U.S. diplomatic cables sent to or from embassies around the world.

Lula, a former union leader, said Assange did less harm than the classified documents’ authors, and offered his “solidarity” with the jailed Australian national.

“I’m surprised they arrested the man and I didn’t see any protest,” Lula said at an event today in Brasilia. “The guy was just posting what he read.” (...)

Leaked cables from Brazil shed light on U.S. government attempts to solicit Brazil’s help in isolating Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and showed U.S. diplomats discussing anti- American members of the Lula government.

Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-09/lula-defends-wikileaks-offers-brazil-s-solidarity-with-jailed-founder.html

[Hell Hath No Fury]

1. Go Lula! Go Evo!

:applause:

[Joanne98]

2. YAY

[Fearless]

3. Looks like the Reagan era is coming back to bite us in the ass...

With South American governments in Bolivia and now Brazil supporting wikileaks.

[tomm2thumbs]

5. good observation! Like they say, 'friends come and go, but enemies accumulate'

[goforit]

17. very interesting.

[defendandprotect]

4. Good ... FREE JULIAN ASSANGE --

[laughingliberal]

6. K & R nt

[Dawson Leery]

7. The Nixon/Reagan reign of terror against South America has ended.

The governments and peoples of South America remember those days and understand that they must never prop up their enemies.

[Peace Patriot]

8. Ha! Please see my comment on Bolivia's hosting of Wikileaks cables...

Comment #80 (in reply to Goldstein1984 who said, "Be careful, President Morales") at
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4648845#4651471

All these new Leftist leaders in Latin America are on the U.S. target list, but they have learned to STICK TOGETHER--which is dramatically changing the dynamic in U.S./Latin American foreign relations. It is increasing the hysteria and desperation of our Corporate Politicians and their masters as to re-conquering what they consider to be their "back yard," and it is increasingly baffling them in that purpose. They keep trying to expand U.S. military bases in the region--against mounting resistance--and keep pouring our tax dollars into rightwing groups throughout Latin America, through agencies like the USAID (not to mention the CIA)--costing us billions and billions of dollars--and they've been running a rampant anti-Left corporate media propaganda campaign for half a decade, and they are getting virtually nowhere because of the new, Leftist leader-organized, unity among Latin American countries--especially strong in South America--on principles of sovereignty and social justice. The U.S. just can't defeat democracy, no matter how hard it tries. Ain't that a shame?

Not.

Go Lula! Go Dilma! Go Evo! Go Hugo! Go Cristina! Go Fernando! Go, Jose! Go Rafael! Go Daniel! Go Alvaro (Colom)! Go Mauricio! May you win Latin American independence! May your democracies succeed! May peace and open government--of, by and for the People--prevail!

:applause: :bounce: :thumbsup: :bounce: :applause: ...especially, today, to Evo and Lula!

[madmax]

13. Obrigado Presidente Lula

A proud Portuguese/American.

Mom was born in Rio, she'd be proud.

[PufPuf23]

29. The support rather than the undermining of emerging Latin American

democracies is in the interests of the USA and morally correct.

Neo-liberals suck (added just to make my mindset clear).

How can a democrat and American support random repression and death in Latin America (or the Middle East)?

[qb]

9. Workers of the world unite!

:bounce:

[pberq]

10. Kick! nt

[me b zola]

11. K&R!

:applause:

[Blue_Tires]

12. sweet...

[Goldstein1984]

14. Headline: "U.S. Peasants Unite Around Lula"

I wonder, will this rising tide of dissent go anywhere?

[Judi Lynn]

15. He's one tough, strong, and wonderful Brazilian leader whose strength has been forged

by the fire of a fascist Brazilian government earlier in his life.

Look how well the country fared with his guidance.

Look how low they fell under the weight of the grotesque murderous, torture-loving, dissent-smashing, U.S. supported military dictatorship several decades ago.

Brazilians who have seen life under both kinds of leadership know the difference. Only the sociopaths would EVER want the fascists back again.

Glad he got a chance to see how things operated behind his back, via Wikileaks. From the article:

Leaked cables from Brazil shed light on U.S. government attempts to solicit Brazil’s help in isolating Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and showed U.S. diplomats discussing anti- American members of the Lula government.

Lula said that WikiLeaks “exposed a diplomacy that seemed to be untouchable.”

Thank you, Commie Pinko Dirtbag! :bounce:

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

18. "Brazilians who have seen life under both kinds of leadership"

You called?

(And yes, I do know the difference.)

[Judi Lynn]

25. Whoa! Didn't know you were there then! Yikes! Congratulations for survival tactics.

:hi: :bounce: :toast: :woohoo:

Can't have been all that enjoyable. I guess you didn't know at the time corporate media in the States kept us TOTALLY ignorant of what you were experiencing with the support of the U.S.

Unbelievable.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

30. Actually, I just watched it all happen.

There was no political activity to speak of at my school, and I never was the activist type.

[Judi Lynn]

32. I suddenly imagined you were much older than you are! Sorry. Miscalculation.

http://bryanjoiner.files.wordpress.com.nyud.net:8090/2010/07/stupid.jpg

[PufPuf23]

28. Brazil is the slumbering giant of the western hemisphere

and Brazil has become progressive and emerged from the shado of the past.

Latin America, for all its faults, is a bright spark of humanity IMO in 2010.

[myrna minx]

19. +1

[goforit]

16. ROFLMAO!!!.....LULA with the world unites against the US & elevates

ASSANGE to Martyrdom!!!

[Jefferson23]

20. Beautiful! n/t

[EFerrari]

21. LULA!

LOL

:applause:

[Vidar]

22. Viva Lula!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

23. Content!!!! It's about CONTENT!!!!!!....... AAAAARGHHHHH..... Heehee..... nt

(inside joke)

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

26. Yargle Blargle Flatulence AXN Blarrrgh.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

27. Add the words intelligence agency without a state to that and you have a word by word transcript. n

[Taverner]

24. Is it any surprise who's on our side?

The Sudamericano left may have its pockets of problems, but the goal is working

[sabrina 1]

31. Good for him. They know what it's like to be under the thumb

of the U.S. and the horrors endured by their people during those times. South America is emerging from that influence, while Europe appears to be the new arena where governments are bought and sold for the Empire.

He should have fled the country and gone to live in one of the new, emerging and real Democracies in S. America.

This country is a disgrace. Charging a news organization with espionage is a new low for them. And where are all our brave journalists, other than Glenn Greenwald who better watch it or he too will be charged with spying? Why are they so silent?