CELEBRITY journalist / publisher seeking free-speech protection

[pro2rat at yahoo.com.au]

Should the Mange present in court as a journalist / publisher seeking free-speech protection he
may be cross examined on these statements of his that he is a spy and/ or a combatant in a war
and a war propagandist. Media practitioners and their advocates routinely emphasize the
civilian and protected nature of their professional work when reporting on armed conflict. They
never claim to be spies and/or warfighters.
Any argument Assmange is a journalist - publisher confronts statements of his that contradict
this. For example. That WL are ‘spies for the people’ and that the organization is a peoples
intelligence agency. Journalism has rules, ethics; espionage has no rules/ethics.
Then - in May 2017 - Assmange suggest a ’ proper war is commencing’, calls for ’ acts of
resistance’ and sez WL is a ‘combatant’.
Journalists are neither combatants, nor spies. They are civilian non-combatants.