... fehlt nur noch der Verhaftungsgrund: "Es existiert kein passendes Gesetz, gegen das der WikiLeaks-Gründer verstoßen hätte." Und ich meine mich dunkel zu erinnern, dass in einem Rechtsstaat niemand verurteilt werden darf, wenn zum Zeitpunkt der Tat noch kein Gesetz seine Tat sanktionierte.

das von Glenn Greenwald:
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GOP Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who said of Assange: "I think the man is a high-tech terrorist. He’s done an enormous damage to our country, and I think he needs to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. And if that becomes a problem, we need to change the law." As usual, when wielded by American authorities, the term "terrorist" means nothing more than: "those who impede or defy the will of the U.S. Government with any degree of efficacy." Anyone who does that is, by definition, a Terrorist. And note McConnell's typical, highly representative view that if someone he wants to punish isn't a criminal under the law, then you just "change the law" to make him one.

But that sort of legal scheming isn't even necessary. The U.S. and its "friends" in the Western and business worlds are more than able and happy to severely punish anyone they want without the slightest basis in "law." That's what the lawless, Wild Western World is: political leaders punishing whomever they want without any limits, certainly without regard to bothersome concepts of "law."
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http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/12/06/wikileaks/index.html