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Wikileaks Co-founder Julian Assange Arrested in London (theguardian.com)
Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange has been arrested at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where the WikiLeaks founder was granted refuge in 2012 while on bail in the UK over sexual assault allegations against him in Sweden. From a report: At the time, Assange claimed that if he was extradited to Sweden he might be arrested by the US and face charges relating to WikiLeaks's publication of hundreds of thousands of US diplomatic cables. The journalist and Assange supporter John Pilger called last week for people to "fill the street outside the embassy and protect him and show solidarity with a courageous man." US authorities have never officially confirmed that they have charged Assange, but in November 2018 a mistake in a document filed in an unrelated case hinted that criminal charges might have been prepared in secret. London's Metropolitan police released a statement which said officers had executed a warrant after the Ecuadorian government withdrew asylum.
7 years of self enforced jail time which is probably longer than he'd have got even if he'd been found guilty in sweden for rape (which was a long way from a dead cert). Any moral authority he may have had he's long since lost and now he just appears as some sad middle aged man who escaped justice. Whatever happens now his days as any kind of go-to guy for privacy concerns are long since gone and who would trust this man with their whistle blowing secrets after the way he's behaved?
Maybe the USA has had time to cool off. Me? I'm betting he'll be over there within three months.
I doubt it. Notice the timing of this: this is happening immediately after the Mueller Report completely exonerated Trump of having any ties to Russia. The US Deep State is still trying their hardest to find some reason to explain why Trump's election was "invalid" due to "Russian interference" and now that they can't blame Trump directly, they're moving on to blaming anyone they possibly can. Since Wikileaks provided the emails that proved that the Democratic primaries were rigged for Hillary, that means that they're the next target in the absurd "Russian rigged the election" conspiracy theory.
(And, yes, I'm aware that the Mueller report did "not exonerate" the president of other charges unrelated to Russia. But unlike people who like to quote just that phrase, I can understand context, and know that it's not referring to the Russia charges and that it's also saying that there was no evidence discovered to prove the charges it was related to.)
You're assuming he ever sees a proper legal process and isn't immediately whisked away to some US black site.
Trump might be willing to pardon him, but that involves him being properly prosecuted by proper legal channels and not the deep state hiding him in some secret prison. Already we're seeing the left-wing rage machine try and bury this story to make it easier for his whereabouts to be hidden. Shadowbans on Twitter are hiding messages of support for Assange and the left-wing media is refusing to cover the story.
Trump does what he is told.
What you are saying confirms that governments, the US government in particular, do whatever they please without having to follow any kind of law. It confirms that power and violence are the only "laws". So why should we follow those laws? Why can't we use violence to fight whoever we don't like?
You have a very active imagination there, Boris.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
I love getting you true cowards spun up. Seems your hero Assange is out of a job, so why don't you troll around for traitors and take up his recently vacated position.
You can think that all you want, people with a brain know Assange has been stalked with trumped up charges from the very corrupt people he's been exposing,
And the earth is flat, the moon landings were a hoax, O'Blama is a Kenyan citizen, and Chemtrails are loaded with chemicals that emasculate males, and Pizzagate is real and ongoing.
Do go on though, I love what you post. Do you have a newsletter, or at least T-shirts.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.