Maxwell judge is Comey’s daughter.
Could you elaborate?
Assange judge is 40-year ‘good friend’ of minister who orchestrated his arrest
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
In summary, it's as you say. Wikileaks has released a tonne of sensitive material which has often made the US look bad and revealed war crimes. The US wants to punish Assange as the leader of Wikileaks to deter others from doing the same. Most journalists and lawyers (although not all) believe that Wikileaks' activity is journalistic, and therefore that Assange can't be prosecuted for this activity. So the US is tryi…
Wikileaks have released a ton of material compromising physical safety and well being of people who confided with US diplomats. Wikileaks also went out of its way to share this information with regimes it had affinity to, like Lukashenka's Belarus. https://www.indexoncensorship.org/2011/02/wikileaks-belarus-...
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#24Whatever opinion you had about Assange, I think history will not look favourably on how he has been treated during this process.
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#25Kafkaesque
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#26The whole assange thing feels like a stitch up
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
But there's a special place in earth where it routinely happens: the US of A. What Assange is suffering pales against what happened in Guantanamo or Abu Ghraib. Nobody ever paid.
In the case of Abu Graib there were consequences for the soldiers directly involved. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_priso...
My feeling is that they were the perpetrators, but not those who were actually responsible for what happened.
Meaning that the event might or might not be isolated, but the chain of command is responsible for the mentality.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
In summary, it's as you say. Wikileaks has released a tonne of sensitive material which has often made the US look bad and revealed war crimes. The US wants to punish Assange as the leader of Wikileaks to deter others from doing the same. Most journalists and lawyers (although not all) believe that Wikileaks' activity is journalistic, and therefore that Assange can't be prosecuted for this activity. So the US is tryi…
> What has been clear is that the US will go to extreme lengths to get him into a US jail, from discussions about rendition, assassination, and faking evidence (e.g. with a key witness in this trial), to significant political pressure on allies and other states to cooperate with them on this. Right, and that's kinda messed-up given the standards we place on modern democracies and ourselves. Given the revelations, whe…
"Right, and that's kinda messed-up given the standards we place on modern democracies and ourselves."
And what standards would those be? US has never been "the good guy". They strike with impunity in disregard of collateral damage or decency, as long as domestic opinion can be kept in check.
Never mistake an actor with strong realpolitik leverage to an universal benefactor.
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#29Very little orchestration needed to arrest somebody that jumps bail.
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#30Obviously the judge will be “impartial” and not recuse himself. Only bad countries don’t have justice like China and Russia according to the main stream media.
Is there a word to describe the effect of someone ending a comment in a phrase (in this case “according to the [mainstream] media”) that instantly invalidates the rest of the argument to a reader?
Yes, it’s “prejudging”.