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Julian Assange arrested in London

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Re: Julian Assange arrested in London

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Post by pzone »

Spooky23 wrote: post #427
tabs_masterrace wrote: post #326

Very sad day. Remember this all started with the leak of the "Collateral murder" video. That's when the Interpol notice went out, and he had to seek asylum at the embassy. It was already quite disgusting how powerful entities were able to seemingly fabricate sexual charges as needed. Later on he made very influential enemies by exposing corruption in the democratic political party. Instead of any follow up on that fr…

Give me a break. This guy was a useful idiot who if he didn’t start as a tool of the FSB, became one. The idolization of this guy on web forums is like the college kids of the 90s wearing Che Guevara T-shirt’s.

Seriously. Assange doesn't carry a cross on his back, he has histrionic personality disorder.

Re: Julian Assange arrested in London

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Post by firethief »

collyw wrote: post #748
IntelMiner wrote: post #418

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Australia is run by a bunch of corrupt neoliberal oligarchs burning the place to the ground on the way out the door They have "better" things to do than worry about some "peasant". Like their six figure pensions and lobbying deals

Is there a country who's citizens don't think their government is corrupt?

Many North Koreans hold their leadership in high regard

Re: Julian Assange arrested in London

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Post by firethief »

CryptoPunk wrote: post #794
IntelMiner wrote: post #418

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Australia is run by a bunch of corrupt neoliberal oligarchs burning the place to the ground on the way out the door They have "better" things to do than worry about some "peasant". Like their six figure pensions and lobbying deals

Do you really need to put "neoliberal" in front of oligarch? It imparts on them a commitment to principles that they don't uphold. This is a government that undermines core liberal values like private property rights and privacy rights, with a multitude of financial regulations, surveillance state anti-money-laundering laws, and prohibitions on unrestricted use of encrypted communication.

But we have to know which team they're on!!

Re: Julian Assange arrested in London

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Post by markbnj »

collyw wrote: post #748
IntelMiner wrote: post #418

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Australia is run by a bunch of corrupt neoliberal oligarchs burning the place to the ground on the way out the door They have "better" things to do than worry about some "peasant". Like their six figure pensions and lobbying deals

Is there a country who's citizens don't think their government is corrupt?

If true this could be because all governments tend toward corruption.

Re: Julian Assange arrested in London

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Post by nostrademons »

gcb0 wrote: post #773
panarky wrote: post #746

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The actual indictment: https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/press-release/file/1153481... Snowden: The weakness of the US charge against Assange is shocking. The allegation he tried (and failed?) to help crack a password during their world-famous reporting has been public for nearly a decade: it is the count Obama's DOJ refused to charge, saying it endangered journalism. https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/11163365508733…

Interesting, as the current narrative (on thehill.com, a left-center bias news source no less) is that this is all caused by fears from the Obama administration personnel: https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/394036-How-Comey-int... Though it is also the narrative on russia propaganda sites https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201806271065837436-comey-as...

TheHill is right-center (although it's right-leaning in the old Bush/Romney sense, not the newer Trump sense):

https://www.adfontesmedia.com/product/media-bias-chart-4-0-d...

Re: Julian Assange arrested in London

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Post by wybiral »

PatrolX wrote: post #767
wybiral wrote: post #723

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It's not directly about leaking or espionage though. The indictment [1] says that he conspired to help crack passwords from classified government databases. [1] https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/press-release/file/1153481...

They are in possession of some very specific irrefutable evidence, that's what it's about.

This is ambiguous... Who are "they"? "Evidence" of what?

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Post by emanuensis »

belorn wrote: post #487

I would like to locate all HN comments which said he never would get arrested on behalf of the US, and that Assange objections was all just pretense for trying to escape justice from the UK/Swedish legal system.

Arest footage: https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/11/media/ruptly-rt-julian-assang...

>Russia has long expressed support for Assange. Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Maria Zakharova said in a Facebook post after the arrest that "the hand of 'democracy' squeezes the throat of freedom."

Fair. Real time reportage:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/live/2019/apr/11/wikileaks...

>According to the Guardian, after it started to seem in recent weeks that an arrest might be imminent, big UK broadcasters had formed a "pool" arrangement to take turns staking out the building. If something happened, the footage would be shared among the pool members. >That effort appeared to have been abandoned when the arrest failed to materialize. The BBC, ITN and Sky News did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Are we not doing our ZaZen? Arest footage/story:

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/11/uk/julian-assange-arrested-gb...

>It was a moment that global news organizations were desperate to show their audiences. Yet it wasn't captured by leading UK broadcasters like the BBC, Sky News or Independent Television News (ITN). >Instead, the only media organization with video of the controversial moment was an obscure outfit called Ruptly. Ruptly, which has carved out a niche for itself by recording events around the world and selling the footage to other broadcasters, is a subsidiary of Russian state-backed media outlet RT. >Founded in 2013, the operation is headquartered in Berlin

Re: Julian Assange arrested in London

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Post by Miner49er »

techntoke wrote: post #453
Crosseye_Jack wrote: post #383

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> or have his ashes thrown into the sea the same way as they did with Osama bin Laden. The UK won't extradite if the death penality is on the cards. http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/41/section/94

This is ridiculous. No one is talking about death penalty except people trying to inflame the situation.

Trump has called for the death penalty for people working with/on Wikileaks. It's definitely a possibility.

Re: Julian Assange arrested in London

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Post by darpa_escapee »

mikeyouse wrote: post #802
sigi45 wrote: post #793

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I can't imagine that this is a true story. Which country is throwing someone into jail for 1,5 years for offering to sell someone lsd?

Especially Federal prison (most crime in the US is under state jurisdiction). It doesn't add up at all.

If the forest is a national park or otherwise federal property, it does.
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