Three Berries
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So is Assange's extradition to the US a good thing?
Poor bastard. How does he cope?
And the Australian Gov won't support, doesn't give a fuck about its citizens.
This is a GREAT SHAME on the Westminster System. Poor bastard. How does he cope?
And the Australian Gov won't support, doesn't give a fuck about its citizens.
why should they care about a rapist?
And the british gov don´t like forgeigners these days anyway so letting the US have him doesn´t surprise me at all.
But you are right, about our respective governments - after all that´s why politicians get good salaries - in order to take care of their own people, right?
maybe the aussie foreign minister is mates with Boris Johnson.
One would think the Aussies would come to his defence at least from a preliminary standpoint but that window has closed for quite a while now. He is not an American citizen and so I fail to see any charges of "treason", ( to whom? ) and since he's not stepped foot in the US how can "espionage" be applicable? I'm not a lawyer but oftentimes common sense should rule?
While the same arguments cannot not be used for snowden, they certainly should be applicable to Assange who in my opinion which I realize doesn't mean anything, but in my opinion Assange should have never gone thru this in the first place BUT perhaps the larger lemon to squeeze is indeed snowden who if surfaced tomorrow we might indeed see a release of Assange and immediate detention for snowden who "can" be charged with treason and espionage. Will putin use him as a chip now?
Ahhh maybe, maybe not but there has to be a rat in the woodshed somewhere. Isn't there almost always a rat when somebody is in custody ?
Too far fetched and ridiculous? Too abstract?
Closer scrutiny of those 'rape' charges raise some serious questions. From the beginning, there were conflicting actions and statements by the primary accuser, and there was an apparent issue with jealousy preceding the allegations, involving the 2 women.
The twisted folks involved in Assange's extradition, to include the UK Judge whose spouse creates a glaring conflict of interest, should all be executed at town square. As a sort of a 'Beautify the Planet' effort.
Gosh, Moose! Well I agree wholeheartedly. (Sorry Cuddles but your comment re rape may tell more about yourself than about Assange.)
That is one theory, I would advance a different one.
The former prez was not real enthusiastic about going after the guy simply because he found him useful.
I thought the end of term statement about him pardoning he or Snowden was more than interesting.
I imagine that we will find out with the passage of time, that it was in fact Snowden he was considering pardoning,
and that it would have been at the behest of the agency.
Would dearly love to learn the back story of Vault Seven, and what the hell would have made Assange think was wise to release it.
The agency was pissed at him over the Vault Seven release. To the extent they wanted him.
Had drawn up plans that would have destroyed the sovereign territorial rights of two different nations.
When you get the agency upset you are going to end up on the raw end of things every time.
They will I expect extract the pound of flesh they demand. At the expense of what we call a free press and then some.
It represents a terrible precedent, and one which we can count on seeing less decent regimes emulate in the near future.
A disclaimer: I do not think the Independent is as independent as they would have us believe.
I find it simply fascinating, that the vast majority of news outlets which are being viewed today, did not even
exist prior to the advent of the Internet. It would seem very likely to me that some of them are in essence
being used as a means of "injecting what is desired into the news stream.
As usual, I am quite willing to concede that I may very well be altogether mistaken in my take on the
subject.
In the words of the infamous William J. Casey, "We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false."
Source of the above quote: Barbara Honegger
I'll second that statement. Today, the cleanest and most diligent PC installs will remain vulnerable to excessive user info collection. Now, even other OS alternatives are coming into unheard of corruption on a global level.Just look how wonky shit is on your 'puter these days. It's by no coincidence. We could see this shit 20 yrs ago, except now it has ramped up beyond all recognition.
You mean he wont hang himself off camera?Let me guess, Assange will have an accident like Jeffrey Epstein and they'll try to close the case.
You damn right PJ I ran Ubuntu from 2006 until 2017. The only reason I am not there, I can't code anymore, even with notes as I don't know what my notes mean anymore. For 11 yrs it was blissI'll second that statement. Today, the cleanest and most diligent PC installs will remain vulnerable to excessive user info collection. Now, even other OS alternatives are coming into unheard of corruption on a global level.
Personal use information and the collection thereof is out of control, big time.