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Ecuador to Expel Assange Within ‘Hours to Days,’ WikiLeaks Says

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Re: Ecuador to Expel Assange Within ‘Hours to Days,’ WikiLeaks Says

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I mean, it's possible that he's lost his mind during the 7 years of imprisonment without trial.

It’s disingenuous to imply he’s being held against his will in violation of his human rights when in fact the UK government has gone to great lengths to get him to show up to a criminal investigation, and his appeals in the courts were entirely ordinary.

In effect he is being held against his will, since he will almost definitely be extradited if he leaves the embassy.

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If nothing else, his persistence has been fairly impressive. I'm still bitter that he became so thoroughly partisan, though. Especially since his organization has or had the motto: "to publish fact-based stories without fear or favour".

>Especially since his organization has or had the motto: "to publish fact-based stories without fear or favour". I honestly can't believe why anyone thought this after he published the first thing that put Wikileaks on the map, the embarrassing Collateral Murder video. It's funny because before that came out, I considered donating money to Wikileaks because I thought it'd be more like an organization like Wikipedia.…

You don't think Collateral Murder should've been released?

Re: Ecuador to Expel Assange Within ‘Hours to Days,’ WikiLeaks Says

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>Especially since his organization has or had the motto: "to publish fact-based stories without fear or favour". I honestly can't believe why anyone thought this after he published the first thing that put Wikileaks on the map, the embarrassing Collateral Murder video. It's funny because before that came out, I considered donating money to Wikileaks because I thought it'd be more like an organization like Wikipedia.…

Wikipedia is extremely biased.

[citation needed]

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Clearly propaganda, and there was only the single source that as we can clearly see now was adversarial.

Consistent with many descriptions of what it was like to have Assange on one's sofa. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le3jrp6LzjI

Someone let him sleep on their couch and then was upset he didn't move over when they passively used body language to suggest they wanted to sit there. The very concept that this is notable at all amongst the severity of everything else around this situation makes it pretty obvious to me it's just a smear.

The dude is a slob so fuck em, let him rot in solitary for 30 years

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Well, I suppose he is learning that the world is a nasty place and that outing the truth has its share of consequences.

What an ignorant and snarky comment. The World IS a vile place not because there is any truth to learn but because the system is made with the intention of deception and corruption.

Snarky, maybe, but I wouldn't say it's that ignorant. Truth is just facts. If you're someone approaching it rationally it should empower you to make more informed decisions from then on. But I think we can agree that not everybody react to it or perceive it the same, people sometimes behave in ways completely unexpected. So there truly are consequences to laying it bare. Are all truths good to tell? It depends who you ask and it's often only in hindsight that we figure out that something should better have been disclosed or kept hidden.

Re: Ecuador to Expel Assange Within ‘Hours to Days,’ WikiLeaks Says

#36

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>Especially since his organization has or had the motto: "to publish fact-based stories without fear or favour". I honestly can't believe why anyone thought this after he published the first thing that put Wikileaks on the map, the embarrassing Collateral Murder video. It's funny because before that came out, I considered donating money to Wikileaks because I thought it'd be more like an organization like Wikipedia.…

Wikipedia is extremely biased.

Yes but that's inherent in how Wikipedia works. Wikileaks was just Julian Assange (and whoever else worked with him).

Re: Ecuador to Expel Assange Within ‘Hours to Days,’ WikiLeaks Says

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Consistent with many descriptions of what it was like to have Assange on one's sofa. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le3jrp6LzjI

Someone let him sleep on their couch and then was upset he didn't move over when they passively used body language to suggest they wanted to sit there. The very concept that this is notable at all amongst the severity of everything else around this situation makes it pretty obvious to me it's just a smear. The dude is a slob so fuck em, let him rot in solitary for 30 years

No one in this thread has said anything remotely like "The dude is a slob so fuck em, let him rot in solitary for 30 years". He can be a bad house guest and not deserve to rot in prison, right?

I think it's pretty clear to anyone even attempting to be objective that Assange has a "difficult personality". Even if you broadly approve of him, he's burned a lot of bridges and appears to have quite an ego.

Re: Ecuador to Expel Assange Within ‘Hours to Days,’ WikiLeaks Says

#38

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I mean, it's possible that he's lost his mind during the 7 years of imprisonment without trial.

He lives in a diplomatic compound that he is free to leave at any moment. He's gone without trial by choice. The real victims here are the poor Ecuadoran diplomatic staff, and his ex-cat. Oh, and his victims, of course.

What victims?

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Keep up the great Wikileaks! “In one of the messages, sent at 6:35 p.m. on the day of the election, Wikileaks wrote, "Hi Don if your father ‘loses’ we think it is much more interesting if he DOES NOT conceed [sic] and spends time CHALLENGING the media and other types of rigging that occurred—as he has implied that he might do." Wikileaks reportedly claimed contesting the election could help his father further delegit…

"created: 33 minutes ago" just to post this?

Re: Ecuador to Expel Assange Within ‘Hours to Days,’ WikiLeaks Says

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>Especially since his organization has or had the motto: "to publish fact-based stories without fear or favour". I honestly can't believe why anyone thought this after he published the first thing that put Wikileaks on the map, the embarrassing Collateral Murder video. It's funny because before that came out, I considered donating money to Wikileaks because I thought it'd be more like an organization like Wikipedia.…

You don't think Collateral Murder should've been released?

No I don't think an organization that was ostensibly trying "to publish fact-based stories without fear or favour" should have published the highly edited and misleading video which was packaged to go viral. That told me everything I needed to know about his intellectual honesty and what to expect from Wikileaks. I guess no one else had the same takeaway.
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