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FREEDOM OF SPEECH: IF IT AIN’T BROKE, DON’T FIX IT
FREEDOM OF SPEECH: IF IT AIN’T BROKE, DON’T FIX IT

There are clear lines of demarcation between free speech and the criminal offences associated with inciting racial disharmony, or obscene behaviour. Parenthetically, the question of whether it is the role of the State to proscribe standards of obscenity might be left for another day.

MARIA EXPOSTO: SENTENCED TO DEATH AFTER BEING SCAMMED
MARIA EXPOSTO: SENTENCED TO DEATH AFTER BEING SCAMMED

Romance scammers target everyone, the person does not have to be single and looking for love, they can be married, separated, divorced, widowed, deaf, blind and disabled.  Victims can be correctional officers, scholars, military personnel, clergy, teachers, doctors, celebrities, nurses, cleaners… everyone is a potential victim of a scam.  If you have an online presence, you can be targeted by a scammer.  Romance scams are ever evolving, where new sites open and Wi-Fi is introduced to new countries, romance scammers will follow. 

JULIAN ASSANGE'S NEW ZEALAND LAWYER CRAIG TUCK: "IT'S A TRAIN WRECK" - PRESS RELEASE
JULIAN ASSANGE'S NEW ZEALAND LAWYER CRAIG TUCK: "IT'S A TRAIN WRECK" - PRESS RELEASE

In what is turning out to be a train wreck of arbitrary decision making by authorities, an Ecuadorean judge authorised the seizure of Julian’s belongings, so that US prosecutors could help themselves to items including manuscripts, legal papers, medical records and electronic equipment. Tuck describes the situation as utterly bizarre.

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