[–] 15118521? 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I don’t think he broke ANY laws. He published leaked info. He should be pardoned for anything they try to stick him with. He should be given a medal and set as the prime example for all journalists going forward. Wikileaks has never published a false document. Unheard of in today’s fake news world!
[–] 15122577? 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
There is NO LAW that he was legitimately subject to and broke. There is no legal basis for charging him with anything. This is no different than if we went into a foreign country and rendered a known officer of that country's intelligence service who had never set foot in the U.S. back to the U.S. to answer for gasp doing his job as another country's foreign intelligence officer based over there. Which is not to say we'd never do such a thing -- we're bastards enough that we just might under the right circumstances. But it's to say that there would be no legal cover for doing so, and should rightly elicit Khashoggi levels of outrage the world over if we did.
It's only because Julian Assange has been such a colossal thorn in the side of the Deep State, and the DS is global, that this is even being contemplated, and countenanced as remotely legitimate in official circles the world over.
Best outcome: Julian is charged and brought to the U.S. under heavy protection to answer those charges. He gets a proper legal defense that does an awesome job showing how meritless, dangerous, and unconstitutional all the charges against him are. A fair court is forced to acquit him on everything. No double jeopardy. He's a free man. In the meantime, during discovery, he gets to present everything he's got, top to bottom on the Deep State, it all comes out into the open and is recorded in the court proceedings, and everybody implicated is royally screwed.
As much as I hate to see a good man hauled across an ocean to answer clearly bogus charges, if we could get that outcome, I'd consider it a blessing and an operation well done. Just give the guy Secret Service protection while it's happening, please. He's every bit as much a target as is POTUS.
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[–] 15117070? 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago
GITM\O has recently undergone half a billion in upgrades.
Perhaps part of that was to build some safe, luxury apartments for patriots?
If Assange is sent there then perhaps he'll get to visit the Gitmo Zoo and throw stale bread at the animals?
[–] 15118764? 0 points 13 points 13 points (+13|-0) ago
By what right does the United States have to charge someone of breaking any laws outside of the United States?
At some point you either believe in the sovereignty of the state... or you don't. You can't say how "The US will not be beholden to the laws of the Hague or the UN." while at the same time saying "Everyone on the planet is beholden to the laws of the US."
This is obviously a very hypocritical stance. Technically, I can agree that Snowden might be charged, because he actually is a US citizen who maybe broke US laws while on US soil. But Julian Assange is NOT a US citizen, and anything he did was not on US soil. If you want to charge anyone - charge the US citizens who sent him info.
At some point, Americans will have to realize that their laws stop where their borders do. And if they don't - then they have no right to fight against agenda 21 or any other laws that the world tries to impose on the US. Either you believe in state sovereignty or you don't. Which is it? And if you do believe in state sovereignty, how can you support an indictment of someone who did nothing on US soil?
Riiiiight.... and I have a bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell you.
Assange has been stuck in the Ecuadorian embassy for years because he was afraid that they were using the pretext of a sexual assault (which even the woman at the center of the controversy finally said it wasn't an assault) to extradite him to the US.
If you want to protect someone - you don't indict them and ask for an extradition. You speak with them and get their approval for how to best keep them safe. If Assange is ever extradited to the US - he will probably meet the same fate as Whitey Bulger recently did.
[–] 15120356? 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
At some point, Americans will have to realize that their laws stop where their borders do
Oh please. Americans have their heads rammed so far up their own asses due to brainwashing they'll never fucking realise this.
The average American makes the average Chinese citizen look positively calm, balanced, and well informed regarding the state of their own country and the outside world. It's hard to imagine how a group with an average IQ so purportedly high could possibly manage to be that fucking uneducated, but they still manage it.
Their view on the world is the definition of "one rule for me, another for thee". What else would you expect from a nation of pets of the chosen people?
I agree - but I just wish that Q would address this at some point. It's all nice and good if Q is working with the NSA to clean up the swamp and working for unity. But if after doing so, they go back to pushing US hegemony over the entire planet... then what was the point? They'll just sink right back into the swamp they got out of.
[–] 15119262? ago
Charge him, plea to 'whattheFevah', and then immediately someone of largish stature hand delivers the Pardon, offers Mr. Assange a position or other accommodation.
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