What happens if Julian Assange is tried in the US?(aljazeera.com)
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What happens if Julian Assange is tried in the US?
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/julian-assange-battle-save-freedom-press-181121091032429.html
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He'll be locked up in a secret prison where he wont be able to communicate with the outside world.
https://www.ted.com/talks/will_potter_the_secret_us_prisons_...
https://www.ted.com/talks/will_potter_the_secret_us_prisons_...
The whole point of secret prisons are they are extrajudicial and technically outside the realm of the US justice system.
You do that with a person as visible as Asange and the entire international treaty system breaks down
You do that with a person as visible as Asange and the entire international treaty system breaks down
Oh look, this post vanished off the front page. This community censors more than Stalin. It’s a giant echo chamber and if you go against the grain you get shadow banned. Seriously, fuck this place.
This is where hacker news pretends to be in favor of free speech and freedom of the press while screaming for Assange to be prosecuted for exposing Hillary.
There is where people understand that working with military intelligence services to receive hacked materials isn't "Free speech", it's clandestine espionage, and "journalism" isn't any more of a cover for espionage and spying and military intelligence operations than "diplomat" is.
Actually, diplomat is a far superior protection for spying than journalism.
If Julian was smart enough to ingratiate himself to his masters earlier instead of playing his megalomaniac NGO power-info-broker game, he might not have voluntarily locked himself in an Embassy for half a decade. He might have found himself with a sweet Snowden gig, a little quid pro quo here and there and you get quite the setup in Russia.
But no American who believes in LIBERTY (not freedom. Liberty is freedom with common sense limitations. Anarchy tempered with rules for society and enforcement of rules) will have any problem with a spy being prosecuted for attacking our elections on the behest of a foreign power whose military intelligence this past month used a defense against Mueller charges in American courts of "America is the enemy, we were committing an act of war, it doesn't fall under civilian law"[1]. Great company, Julian!
[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russi...
Actually, diplomat is a far superior protection for spying than journalism.
If Julian was smart enough to ingratiate himself to his masters earlier instead of playing his megalomaniac NGO power-info-broker game, he might not have voluntarily locked himself in an Embassy for half a decade. He might have found himself with a sweet Snowden gig, a little quid pro quo here and there and you get quite the setup in Russia.
But no American who believes in LIBERTY (not freedom. Liberty is freedom with common sense limitations. Anarchy tempered with rules for society and enforcement of rules) will have any problem with a spy being prosecuted for attacking our elections on the behest of a foreign power whose military intelligence this past month used a defense against Mueller charges in American courts of "America is the enemy, we were committing an act of war, it doesn't fall under civilian law"[1]. Great company, Julian!
[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russi...
"free speech and freedom of the press" is a difficult topic when the person of interest acts like an foreign agent.
Basically, there has been a long push towards a "leaks are criminal activity" mentality. If publishing leaked information gets classified as a crime, soon there will be no real reporting left.
The moneyshot of the article is about third of the way in: "Reporters regularly publish stolen, hacked and illegally-obtained material. A case that defined such behavior as criminal conspiracy would be devastating. It would have every reporter in the country ripping national security sources out of their rolodexes and tossing them in the trash."
So whatever you may think of Assange the person, his case can have far-reaching consequences.
0: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/taibbi-j...