Assange Hearing Day 2

I don't think this is anything to be concerned about - and I believe building courts attached to prisons where people are held pending arraignment or trial is common practice in many countries for the same practical reasons, including some which are arguably in the interests of the defendants (it facilitates a speedy trial for example and can offer them and their defence team better physical security where they might be widely hated eg terrorist suspects or high profile murder trials).

Fine. But you can't expect the US government and its allies to accept that theory...

1) I'm a US citizen (I'm not).

2) Mexicans are shot at the border when trying to get through normal US customs checks, like in an airport (They're not).

3) that the Mexicans that are actually being shot on the border by the border guard is seen by the international community as acceptable (It isn't).

But, for the sake of refuting what you _actually_ said, lets go with "Western as an economic definition":

From Wikpedia:

-----8The term "Western world" is sometimes interchangeably used with the term First World or developed countries, stressing the difference between First World and the Third World or developing countries. This usage occurs despite the fact that many countries that may be culturally "Western" are developing countries – in fact, a significant percentage of the Americas are developing countries. It is also used despite many developed countries or regions not being Western (e.g. Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao), and therefore left out when "Western world" is used to denote developed countries. Privatization policies (involving government enterprises and public services) and multinational corporations are often considered a visible sign of Western nations's economic presence, especially in Third World countries, and represent common institutional environment for powerful politicians, enterprises, trade unions and firms, bankers and thinkers of the Western world.

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So, "Western" is often used interchangably with first world; Countries in the first world, also according to wikipedia:

-----8Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, West Germany, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

The Western-aligned countries included:

Australia, New Zealand, Israel, Japan, South Africa, South Korea, and Taiwan

The neutral countries included:

Austria, Finland, Ireland, Sweden, Switzerland, and (now former) Yugoslavia.

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This is because "First world"/"Western" has roots in the cold war.

"Second world" == Soviet bloc

"Third world" == everywhere else. (yes, that's a tepid definition when you think about it because most people take it to mean impoverished)

In fact, Assange made extra efforts to warn the White House that the leaks had been published with cleartext names.

So no, nobody died because Assange published leaked data. If anybody got into trouble at all because their names were revealed, its because German journalists published the password to decrypt the files containing the names of informants involved.

So, this is an even worse travesty of justice on top of the existing torture, already.

The judge, Vanessa Baraitser, said that.