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Absolutely disgusting how radlibs turned on him as soon as the media blamed Wikileaks for “aiding Russia”
The r/worldnews thread is full of people calling him a Russian agent, traitor, etc.
Even back when Wikileaks stories first broke and I was a lib I was shocked at how bloodthirsty everyone around me was for him. Same thing with Snowden and Manning - the most humanist-seeming libs will drop all that shit instantly if you can be portrayed as an enemy,
So yeah not surprised at all that Stormfront is in full on “enemy of the state” mode.
Fucking idiots will turn on anyone the media tells them to.
I remember talking with my ex about him, I remember her saying “I used to be very interested in what he had to share, but when he started going after Hillary I thought, wait a minute… who’s side are you on?” I’ll never forget the way she said that. Like, this dude is exposing grotesque violations of human lives, but he dared to cast a stain on the golden goddess Hillary Clinton, so it’s actually cool and good that he should rot in prison forever.
Also had an argument with this ex where I brought her to the jaw-dropping admission that she believed Cuba should surrender to the US’s siege and give up their right to self-determination, purely because it would mean the people of Cuba would theoretically suffer less under the rule of the empire whose boot is currently upon their throat.
Yeesh, wonder why they’re an ex
The democratic west out there engaging in one of the longest and most dramatic repressions of a journalist in history.
Amazing. He needs to move to a decent country and then write a book about the horror he experienced once he gets some psychological counseling for the PTSD. This man’s a fucking hero.
I’m glad he’s free but goddamn I don’t think he’s going to be straight for awhile, dude is really going to need some time to heal. Solitary confinement is torture and it’s crazy how the prison system uses it with such ease.
Incredible news.
I don’t think it can be understated just how much damage this man did to US credibility through wikileaks. I have no idea if he has the skillset he once had or the connections that enabled it but they incredible damage to the US and they hunted him relentlessly for it to set an example. And it worked flawlessly. Other outlets became considerably more on the side of the US in the aftermath of crackdowns on Assange and police raids of any news org that was publishing anything the US didn’t like, the UK Guardian being an obvious famous example of this when the authorities raided them for Snowden’s harddrives and forced them to take angle grinders to the drives while GCHQ operatives observed.
I wonder what “negotiations” took place. Is he allowed to go back to journalism if he wanted to?
Fuck the US, seriously
Huh, was kinda never expecting to see the day.
Obviously a very good thing he’s free but it sucks he had to spend so long in such awful conditions, I imagine you’d never fully get over that sort of experience (real doomer hours from me tonight I guess).
I thought he was going to quietly break his hyoid bone at some point TBH.
Same
if I were him you would not catch my ass in any country with a US extradition treaty
The dude needs to flee to Russia asap and never leave.
Sentenced to transportation to Australia
as is tradition
no fucking way he’s free? holy shit he’s free!
It sounds like the people around him are confident it’s a done deal, with his time in Belmarsh acting as ‘time served’ for a more minor breach of thae espionage act.
But I’d still be worried the US pulls some shit as:
Assange is scheduled to appear in a federal court in the Northern Mariana Islands, a US commonwealth in the western Pacific, where he is expected to plead guilty to one charge under the Espionage Act of conspiring to unlawfully obtain and disseminate classified national defence information. The extradition request is expected to be dropped and Assange won’t face any other charges.
The hearing is taking place in the Northern Mariana Islands because of Assange’s opposition to travelling to the US mainland and the court’s proximity to Australia.
Prosecutors have agreed to a sentence of five years, but have said the time already served in a British prison will count towards this. This means that he will probably walk free after the sentencing.
The guilty plea must still be approved by a judge, but if it is, he is expected to return to Australia after the sentencing.
What if the judge says ‘no’ and gives him a much harsher sentence to be detained by the US?
What if they just straight up black bag him?
On a tiny Island with only one or two witnesses instead of a busy city with a (nominally) free and interested press.
I hope this is the end of the ordeal for him, I truly do, but I don’t think I’d ever believe it until I was safely in a country I was sure would never extradite or collaborate with the US. Although right now it’s clear he doesn’t have much of a choice.
On a tiny island? They can just chuck him out the back of the plane like the US funded death squads in Latin America did
Hell yes, good news for once
Sorry to hear about his impending accidental death
Australia is even more subservient to the US than the UK. He should not be going to Australia.
Yeah I don’t get that decision
