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http://rt.com/art-and-culture/news/assange-westwood-t-shirt-892/
'I’m Julian Assange': Vivienne Westwood backs whistleblower with t-shirt range
Published: 03 November, 2012, 14:13
Image from www.viviennewestwood.co.uk
Renowned UK designer Vivienne Westwood has launched a line of t-shirts to show solidarity with Julian Assange. All profits will go to WikiLeaks, which she praised as a brilliant organization to combat misinformation and concealment.
By wearing the unisex t-shirt Westwood said you can show your support for a “real hero.”
“WikiLeaks has had 90 per cent of all donations blocked by Visa, MasterCard, Western Union, PayPal, Amazon and Bank of America, so all profits from the sale of this t-shirt will go directly to them," said Westwood. The flamboyant designer added that Assange is working in the interests of the public “to expose the facts concealed and misinformation published by the authorities for their own protection.”
Credit card companies began to block donations going to the whistleblowing site following a statement by Australian PM Julia Gillard in 2010, condemning the release of US wires on WikiLeaks as “illegal” and “grossly irresponsible.”
Assange is now taking steps to sue Gillard for defamation as her statements continue to “directly affect the financial viability of WikiLeaks.''
The t-shirt has the 71-year-old’s face emblazoned on the front with the tag line “I am Julian Assange” in the top left corner.
The WikiLeaks founder has now been holed up for over four months in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he claimed asylum to dodge extradition in Sweden.
Miss Westwood was seen by press sporting the new t-shirt on the way to visit the whistleblower in the embassy on Tuesday.
The UK and Ecuadorian governments are currently at loggerheads over Assange’s fate. Ecuador granted his appeal for asylum in August, but he is unable to leave embassy premises as British authorities have resolved to arrest him should he set foot on UK soil.
The British government says that they are obligated to deliver Assange to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning over allegations of rape and sexual assault.
The WikiLeaks found denied the allegations and claims that once in Sweden he will most likely be handed over to US authorities, which have been preparing a lawsuit against him for the leaking of thousands of diplomatic cables through his website.
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WARNING FROM RAEL: For those who don't use their intelligence at its
full capacity, the label "selected by RAEL" on some articles does not
mean that I agree with their content or support it. "Selected by RAEL"
means that I believe it is important for the people of this planet to
know about what people think or do, even when what they think or do is
completely stupid and against our philosophy. When I selected articles
in the past about stupid Christian fundamentalists in America praying
for rain, I am sure no Rael-Science reader was stupid enough to believe
that I was supporting praying to change the weather. So, when I select
articles which are in favor of drugs, anti-Semitic, anti-Jewish, racist,
revisionist, or inciting hatred against any group or religion, or any
other stupid article, it does not mean that I support them. It just
means that it is important for all human beings to know about them.
Common sense, which is usually very good among our readers, is good
enough to understand that. When, like in the recent articles on drug
decriminalization, it is necessary to make it clearer, I add a comment,
which in this case was very clear: I support decriminalizing all drugs,
as it is stupid to throw depressed and sad people (as only depressed and
sad people use drugs) in prison and ruin their life with a criminal
record. That does not mean that there is any change to the Message which
says clearly that we must not use any drug except for medical purposes.
The same applies to the freedom of expression which must be absolute.
That does not mean again of course that I agree with anti-Jews,
anti-Semites, racists of any kind or anti-Raelians. But by knowing your
enemies or the enemies of your values, you are better equipped to fight
them. With love and respect of course, and with the wonderful sentence
of the French philosopher Voltaire in mind: "I disapprove of what you
say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it".
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"Ethics" is simply a last-gasp attempt by deist conservatives and
orthodox dogmatics to keep humanity in ignorance and obscurantism,
through the well tried fermentation of fear, the fear of science and
new technologies.
There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history,
it is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.
On the contrary, let us embrace Science and the new technologies
unfettered, for it is these which will liberate mankind from the
myth of god, and free us from our age old fears, from disease,
death and the sweat of labour.
Rael
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