It’s safe to say who will come out best here. The lawyer for Julian Assange is making noise about prosecuting Sarah Palin if she ever goes to Australia.

In a Facebook post in December, Sarah Palin wrote that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should be “pursued with the same urgency as al-Qaida and Taliban leaders.” Robert Stary, an Australian lawyer for Assange, tells National Public Radio he’ll pursue a “private prosecution” of Palin if she ever sets foot on Aussie soil. Her remark is essentially a call for Assange’s execution, Stary says.

Our main concern is really the possible extradition [of Assange] to the U.S. We’ve been troubled by the sort of rhetoric that has come out of various commentators and principally Republican politicians – Sarah Palin and the like – saying Mr. Assange should be executed, assassinated.” …

Anyone who incites others to commit violence against his client, even outside Australia, Stary says, is violating Australian law and can be held accountable for it.

“Certainly if Sarah Palin or any of those other politicians come to Australia, for whatever purpose, then we can initiate a private prosecution, and that’s what we intend to do,” Stary said.

Of course it’s only posturing and attention-whoring but nevertheless it says a lot about his state of mind. He’s supporting Assange’s right to free speech but not allowing Sarah Palin hers. One rule for one, eh? And apart from the fact that she didn’t actually call for his assassination which renders the whole point rather moot, you’d hardly think that Oz public opinion is going to rally behind an organisation who have further risked the lives of the 1,500 Diggers currently serving in Afghanistan.

From The Anchorage Daily News via GatewayPundit