Does anyone still believe in the rule of law? How can these people talk so casually about assassination?

The Georgia Straight, Vancouver, Canada: Police complaint filed after Tom Flanagan calls for assassination of Wikileaks' Julian Assange .

Oakland Ross in the Toronto Star: Senior fellow at the august Brookings Institution, [Michael] O’Hanlon has just been asked what he would do if he were to find himself seated across a table from one Julian Assange... His rejoinder — 'BLAM!'.

While these comments may be passed off as rough and ready, frontier-style, humour, I believe people in our two countries are still considered innocent until proven guilty. My feeling is that, if Wikileaks makes one politician think twice before telling a bare-faced lie, they should put up a statue to Julian Assange, not talk glibly about blowing him away.