Assange in Court
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Assange in Court
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#2In 50 years, people will look in disgust and utter disbelief at our treatment of Assange.
Or maybe this is too optimistic. Maybe our grandsons will indeed understand us. They will understand us too well, and be ashamed of us.
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#3"Extradition shall not be granted if the offense for which extradition is requested is a political offense."
If an American journalist in UK is publishing Chinese military secrets, he will not be extradited to China.
If an Australian journalist in UK is publishing American military secrets, will he be extradited to America?
This is the question now...
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#4Holy crap, HN mods you should edit this title and make it more sensational, like the most posts on HN. I feel this post is not receiving the attention it deserves
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#5If even a quarter of this went down as described in the article this is seriously fucked up beyond measure.
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#6How is it possible there is not yet a huge mob gathering near the court and threatening to burn everything. Because, this is literally revolting. How many people support that? And how many people are disgusted by that? Would nobody regret doing nothing?
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#7This is an atrocious, heinous crime being committed in front of all of us, and we should be rioting in the streets. This can happen to any of us now - nobody is safe from torture by the state.
This is the end of civilized society in the West, people.
Where Julian Assange goes, so go we.
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#8I think it is important to look at this with the lens of objectivity:
Accusations that Assange is actively being not just harassed but outright tortured to the point where he "might not survive the proceedings" in jail...
... to claims that "members of the US Government" were there and "controlling procedures"
and claims that the judge had been instructed what to say:
> possibly she had not properly memorised what Lewis had been instructing her to agree with
Apropos of anything else:
> Baraitser took her cue from Lewis and stated categorically that the date for the extradition hearing, 25 February, could not be changed.
> Lewis received his American instructions and agreed that the defence might have two months to prepare their evidence (they had said they needed an absolute minimum of three) but the February hearing date may not be moved.
As far as I can tell the hearing date is over four months away.
These are all very large claims and should be considered within the spectrum of someone who is as equally friendly towards Assange as he claims the state is against him.
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#9"The charge against Julian is very specific; conspiring with Chelsea Manning to publish the Iraq War logs, the Afghanistan war logs and the State Department cables. The charges are nothing to do with Sweden, nothing to do with sex, and nothing to do with the 2016 US election"
I'd like to call out the popular and prolific users of hacker news who previously were all about Sweden, sex and election interference and who are very silent now.
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#10But is it possible that actually the judge is prepared to deny the extradition, and cannot say anything just yet because of the secret duty? If she thinks all of that is torture for Assange, maybe she is right to want it to end as soon as possible, especially if she already has taken her decision.