The promise of WikiLeaks was exposure of wrongdoing, anywhere. Assange ran it as his personal score-settling service to help Russia.
Small man wants to run his own personal foreign policy he can rot in prison for all I care.
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The promise of WikiLeaks was exposure of wrongdoing, anywhere. Assange ran it as his personal score-settling service to help Russia.
The US war crimes in Iraq back then didn't help Russia as much as the Russian war crimes in Ukraine now don't help the US. Both are crimes against humanity. It is impossible that they 'help' anyone.
They're referring to all the shenanigans before the 2016 election when they decided to release a bunch of hacked info on Dems while holding back anything critical of Republicams.
Also while coordinating and conspiring with the Trump campaign on Twitter DMs.
In fact, "shenanigans" is far too soft a word for what they did.
There are no heroes in this story, only villains.
his own personal foreign policy
Assange is an Australian.
Yes, so why was he trying to influence the US Presidential election through selective leaking?
Fuck Assange with a rusty spoon.
I'm just pointing out that he doesn't have any more allegiance to US foriegn policy than any other non-American has.
If you have a problem with people trying to influence election results in other people's countries, then you should have just as big a problem with the CIA as you have with Assange.
I'm far from being a fan of his but I am a fan of human rights and this whole thing has been a travesty. And something I notice a lot is the sentiment that Assange should have been loyal to US interests.
She's mostly right, other than that there never was any moral high-ground outside the propaganda of the western press. We have always been hypocritical on human rights and justifications for invasions.
The indictment is sealed as far as I know. But I think the question is did Assange help Chelsea Manning break into a US Government server to steal documents. If the jury says yes, he is then guilty of computer crimes and stealing US property. Yes, he would then go to jail. Too bad.
We’ve all (anyone with a soul, at least) accepted that Manning was right in leaking. Why are people so hellbent on prosecuting another person for the same moral act? Because he sucks? Come on.
It scares me how human rights goes out the window when it comes to people who are disliked.
Manning went to jail. She broke the law that's a fact. It is also a fact that there is an indictment waiting for Assange. Are we a nation of laws or just feelings on what's right?
Oh so you’re a fascist
Oh so you're a reductionist
Wrong. It is possible to think that someone did the right thing by breaking the law, that does not mean they are not guilty. The question is should they be punished, and to what degree not "lets pretend this did not happen".
It is quite possible that the answer the the "to what degree" question is Zero even if found guilty.