Julian Assange is being charged under the Espionage Act which was developed for spies in war time. It hails from early last century, WW1.
He will be the first journalist/ publisher to be charged using the Act in its 100 year existance. He faces 170 years.
Why aren't journalists marching in the streets? Why do they cheer their own doom? Are they paid for or scared? Or gutless?
It's a bizzare world where this is being prosecuted and happens concurrently with little things like murders in embassies, slave markets in Lybia and beheadings in Saudi Arabia; that wonderful kingdom where us atheist are classed terrorists and face death if we say stuff like "I respect the prophet, but I think his followers are a bunch of fuckwits, especially those Wahhabi wankers".
Bizzare world.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.They only want to punish him for revealing the truth about the horrible things America has done around the world.
AnonySchmoose
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May 24, 2019
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Assange has acted like more like an activist than a journalist, which is now a problem for him. Think he'll be facing a rape charge before any espionage trials, though.
And yes, the world is a fucked up place. Always has been, and it's proven to be a long hard slog to even make it a little better - because some people really, really suck.
1of5
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May 24, 2019
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1of5:
@powder Assange picked and choose the info to release based on his political views, just as the examples you cited (although it was another entity, the government itself, the news organizations were getting a majority of thier info from, and other news organizations did in fact question the validity).
It also appeared he encouraged and even help people break the law by breaking into data they had no clearance for. That's not being a clearing house for data, that's actually espionage.
I’d like to know where Australia is with all this. No noise at for one of our citizens. We make so much fuss when a fuckhead drug mule gets caught in SE Asia and demand them back.
The government’s silence on the matter is deafening.
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