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This case has shown the absolute lawlessness of the US and UK and this nullification of legal process beyond using it as punishment.

This is a call to the world to rise up against the lawless and unethical abuse of power.

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In my opinion, to charge of espionage a foreign publisher who lives in another country and from there reports on our crimes is a demonstration of how low we have descended. The espionage charge should be rather directed to our president and previous president and VP who kept unprotected top secret documents in their homes .

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Jan 26, 2023·edited Jan 26, 2023

Moral arguments are meaningless to sociopaths, about as effective as quoting Bible verses to an armed robber.

Reward and punishment are the only language that they understand.

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Odyseus's trip from Troy to his home in Ithaca seems to offer the best analogy in literature to Assange's ordeal. And yet it could be ended by the stroke of a pen, if Biden would only drop the prosecution/persecution.

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The overwhelming message one recieves from the persecution of Assange is powerlessness. That no matter your nationality or the vagaries of legal systems, if you reside anywhere within the "Western" sphere of influence, if you dare to unveil the realities of so-called realpolitik with any kind of impact, and do so beyond the corrupting influence of existing power structures, you will be tortured without mercy. Your life is forfeit.

How could another nation effectively abduct and imprison someone for so many years, with so little legal justification? More importantly, where does it end? It's a sobering portent.

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Seems pretty speculative to me, considering that it was Trump and his man Pompeo who originally began prosecution of Assange.

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"We are familiar with the Master-Slave dialectic:

The two roles ineluctably get switched.

Whoever has colonized should not be surprised to find himself colonized in turn.

Whoever destroys the identity of another does not strengthen his own but makes it more vulnerable, more threatened still, in a world which has lost a little more of its diversity.”

“The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.”

---- Abraham Lincoln

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Much has been made of the extrajudicial aspects of Julian Assange's charges: particularly with regard to his alleged violation of the American espionage Act of 1917 while being an Australian citizen. It doesn't matter what nationality Julian Assange is in terms of violating the Act. This repeated fallacy, IMO, clouds the main issue of the specious nature of the charge. Chris, himself, repeats this fallacy in his interview. The Act has to do with whether one was spying and whether that spying added a foreign power. That's it. This, In my opinion (IMO) should be the focus of fighting the charge.

It has yet to be proven that Julian Assange was spying (that was done by Bradly Manning of the U.S. Army -- a crime for which he was convicted, served a partial sentence, and then pardoned by the same administration that prosecuted him--that should tell you something in itself). Further, there has been no evidence whatsoever that Julian Assange himself was spying or abetting spying operations, nor was the information (revelation of U.S. war crimes) aiding or abetting a foreign adversary. Therefore, the tenents of of the American Espionage Act of 1917 were not met in order to merit the charge. In fact, they were never met for the charge against Bradley Manning. Why? Because airing the dirty laundry of a country taints that countries image universally, not specifically to the advantage of a particular nation. That, IMO, was the purpose of Bradly Manning leaking the evidence of U.S. war crimes to the press. The U.S. simply didn't like it...and is attempting illegal retribution. Further, I believe the reason for the retribution coming in the form of Espionage Act violation charges is simply because the alleged perpetrator has no right to present a legal defense to the charge beyond whether they were accurately identified as the perpetrator of the crime. In other words, there is no possible legal defense and, thus, this is the ultimate charge for which the prosecution cannot be held accountable for a miscarriage of justice. IMO, this principle applies to the prosecution of Edward Snowden as well--and is the singular reason he has no intention of presenting himself before a shame court proceeding. These three, separate cases of Espionage Act charge, all involving the extrajudicial nature of the Espionage Act, illustrate its erroneous and ever growing use and should call for a closer examination and possible repeal of this wild west, vigilante styled "law". IMO, the best course of action in order to avoid continued misuse of this law is for every U.S. citizen to urge their congressional representatives to repeal the Espionage Act of 1917 and ask that the law be rewritten to allow for a reasonable legal defense. Nothing short of the validity of the U.S. Bill of Rights depends on it.

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