Espionage Act charges against Assange would criminalize journalism, no matter how often the government calls him a hacker
Archived version: https://archive.ph/sjTKJ
I’m just pissed off he got himself out of the rape charges by hiding in a closet for long enough.
The hiding I kind of have sympathy for because he was raised in an Australian cult named “The Family” - which was a matriarchy in which he and other children were made to silently hide in the walls when the authorities came.
So his issues with women and propensity to hide from authority figures I can kind of understand on a pathological level. Doesn’t make it excusable, I just have sympathy for being a bit messed up in his personal life.
Same. Instead of actually trying him for something he might have actually done, he’s being persecuted by US because they are embarrassed their dirty secrets got exposed.
He’s an information terrorist that’s why he’s going down. He had secrets about everyone but released only the ones that would help his side. That doesn’t make him a noble whistleblower, that makes him a manipulator.
You just described every single corporate journalist. They literally only work and release stuff that fits their company’s set narrative. That’s what freedom of press guarantees.
The guy who passed hacked intelligence from a Russian agent to the Trump campaign whilst pretending it was from DNC staffer Seth Rich (which was an alt-right conspiracy theory) even when he knew that wasn’t true, and even after Seth Rich was dead and he knew it wasn’t true?
The guy who meddled in election outcomes because he thought he had a better shot at being pardoned by Trump?
Trump did offer him a pardon if he exposed his source of the leak publically. He refused.
Perhaps you should read the first link in my comment and figure out who that source was, and step out of denial.
…and I guess you’re fine with him blaming a DNC staffer, whose parents on top of dealing with their son being murdered, then also had to face claims he was the source of tampering in one of the most controversial elections in US history?
Wow AND he was protecting Russia? How er… Great of him. \s
