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Assange Agrees to US Prison If Obama Pardons Chelsea Manning (theverge.com)
"If Obama grants Manning clemency, Assange will agree to U.S. prison in exchange -- despite its clear unlawfulness," Wikileaks announced on Twitter Thursday. An anonymous Slashdot reader quotes The Verge:
WikiLeaks' statement was released one day before a Swedish appeals court decided to maintain a warrant for Assange's arrest over a 2010 rape charge. Assange has said that extradition to Sweden would lead to his eventual extradition to the US, where he could face charges related to WikiLeaks' publication of secret government documents... Assange has been living in political asylum at the Ecuadorian embassy in London since 2012...
Chelsea Manning, a former US Army private, was convicted in 2013 for providing a trove of documents and videos to WikiLeaks, and is currently serving a 35-year sentence at the US Disciplinary Barracks in Leavenworth, Kansas. She was hospitalized after a reported suicide attempt in July, and this month went on a hunger strike to seek treatment for her gender dysphoria. Manning ended her hunger strike this week after the military agreed to allow her to have gender reassignment surgery. She still faces indefinite solitary confinement due to administrative charges related to her suicide attempt.
The tweet also included a link to a letter from Assange's attorney, Barry Pollack, calling on the Justice Department to be more transparent about its investigation into WikiLeaks -- and citing the FBI's investigation into Hillary Clinton's handling of classified information. "Director Comey made it clear his conclusion was based on the necessity of proving criminal intent [and] noted that responsible prosecutors consider the context of a person's actions... Criminal prosecution is appropriate only when a person...was intending to aid enemies of the United States or was attempting to obstruct justice."
Chelsea Manning, a former US Army private, was convicted in 2013 for providing a trove of documents and videos to WikiLeaks, and is currently serving a 35-year sentence at the US Disciplinary Barracks in Leavenworth, Kansas. She was hospitalized after a reported suicide attempt in July, and this month went on a hunger strike to seek treatment for her gender dysphoria. Manning ended her hunger strike this week after the military agreed to allow her to have gender reassignment surgery. She still faces indefinite solitary confinement due to administrative charges related to her suicide attempt.
The tweet also included a link to a letter from Assange's attorney, Barry Pollack, calling on the Justice Department to be more transparent about its investigation into WikiLeaks -- and citing the FBI's investigation into Hillary Clinton's handling of classified information. "Director Comey made it clear his conclusion was based on the necessity of proving criminal intent [and] noted that responsible prosecutors consider the context of a person's actions... Criminal prosecution is appropriate only when a person...was intending to aid enemies of the United States or was attempting to obstruct justice."
minutes! Assange suffers attention deficient!
Because it's what's between the ears that counts.
So if I believe that I'm a helicopter then that makes me a real helicopter. Got it. But at any rate, that doesn't make any kind of a case for surgery.
And yes, prisoners are entitled to orthodontic care. That's part of good health for everyone, no controversy there whatsoever.
I really don't think you understand what orthodontic care means, and why it's not health related. In fact if you go to prison already having braces, chances are the only "care" you'll get is to simply have them removed. There's only super rare medical cases where orthodontic care is medically necessary, and chances are that if you were born with a medical need for orthodontic care, you'd have had it addressed long before you were even old enough to land in prison.
In other words, if you enter prison with crooked teeth, then you're coming out with crooked teeth. Having crooked teeth is perfectly healthy and is neither a disfigurement nor is it a birth defect, much in the same as being slightly overweight is perfectly healthy and doesn't call for liposuction.
Think of it - even when you're "thinking with your little head", it's the big head that's being influenced. Dicks do NOT have a mind of their own, despite what Barf says in Space Balls.
This is exactly why I don't like replying to your posts.
Same with the unborn male fetus, when the testes fail to produce enough testosterone at the 12th week, or when the receptors fail to react. In both cases, we can see the effects in the development of other structures that are growing at the same time - the finger bones. Just look up 2D:4D digit ratio. Kind of hard to deny something is going on differently when there's easily visible proof. To think that it wouldn't influence the rapidly developing brain at the same time is pretty much not believable.
If the case is strictly this, then there's practically no medical explanation for female to male trans people, nor would you be able to explain why about 10% of adult trans over 26 decide to return to their birth gender, or why around 70% of people under 26 spontaneously lose the desire for a sex change.