Two of us, Ellsberg and Noam Chomsky, testified for Assange at his extradition hearing last year. In Ellsberg’s words then, the WikiLeaks publications that Assange is being charged for are “amongst the most important truthful revelations of hidden criminal state behavior that have been made public in U.S. history.” The American public “needed urgently to know what was being done routinely in their name, and there was no other way for them to learn it than by unauthorized disclosure.”
The crime he is alleged to have committed isn’t “telling the truth”. He is being pursued for playing an active part in the crimes that Chelsea Manning was convicted of. The US government alleges he told her which files to get and might have actually played part in obtaining them.
The US government is not pursuing charges against Assange merely for speech but rather they allege he took part in the crimes directly.
That’s called “telling the truth”
Just because you attempt to hide crimes doesn’t mean people have no right to expose them, it’s simply a matter of being upset someone found out
And like I said, the US doesn’t even deny any of the leaks, so the only reason they want to persecute an innocent person is an overtly authoritarian show of force. If we’re going to simply abandon our principles willy-nilly whenever we feel like it then we’re not a democratic country
It isn’t an act of speech when you directly hack government computers. It is not an act of protected speech to direct people in how to perpetrate crimes.
The notion that he is being charged for speech rather than taking an active role in the crimes is false. You can see it in the charges themselves.
He is being prosecuted for alleged acts he has allegedly taken not for sharing the information obtained from those hacks.
Then you either work for the government or you’re a Trump voter, there’s no other option here
Or you really bad at thinking. That’s the third and almost certain option as Im neither of those things.
The charges are public. You can see what he has been accused of. It is not a secret.
you’re misinformed and making a silly argument based on your misinformation.
"On 11 April 2019, the day of Assange’s arrest in London, the indictment against him was unsealed.[60] He was charged with conspiracy to commit computer intrusion (i.e. hacking into a government computer), a crime that carries a maximum 5-year sentence.[61][62]
The charges allege that Assange sought to help Chelsea Manning crack a password hash so that Manning could use a different username to download classified documents. This “would have made it more difficult for investigators to identify Manning as the source of disclosures of classified information”.[63][64][65][66] This allegation had been known since 2011 and is a less serious charge than those levelled against Manning, and carries a maximum sentence of five years.[67][68] The US pointed to chat logs and filed an affidavit that said they were able to identify Assange as the person chatting with Manning using hints he made during the chats and that Manning identified him as Assange to Adrian Lamo.[64][69]"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indictment_and_arrest_of_Julian_Assange#:~:text=He was charged with conspiracy,a maximum 5-year sentence.
No Im right on the money here
What did they charge Al Capone with?
Tax evasion as they could prove that. There is evidence that Assange was directly involved in the hacks. He is being charged with that.
That the US law forbids such acts is a no brainer. But it’s still “Telling the truth”. imho this qualifies him for the nobel peace price rather than incarceration.
No it isn’t telling the truth. He isn’t being pursued for sharing the info but rather in directly committing crimes to get the info. The NYT could publish the Pentagon Papers because they did not steal them.
Assange is accused of being involved in the theft. He’s also now a Russian stooge so probably deserves nothing other than what the US prison system will give him.
Debatable. But even if he did, that means he helped uncover the human rights abuses of the US and it’s allies and their unbelievable collateral damage(~60% of deaths in Irak where civilians). Again maybe legally wrong, but ethically it was the right thing to do.
I don’t know where you get that info from, but if I had messed with the largest military industrial complex on the planet, I’d be looking for friends in other contries aswell. Snowden understadably did the same.
I wouldn’t even want my worst enemy to experience US prisons. They are inhumane and they torture prisoners (extended solitary confinement) on a daily basis as a form of coercion. How could you wish this on anyone?
It isn’t debatable as that is what he is charged with. The fact that his crimes might have produced benefits for someone is immaterial to the fact he broke the law.
Given that he is without question in the employ if the Kremlin at this point, and possibly always was, he’s not someone I would hold up as being heroic or ethical.
His crimes are crimes. He isn’t protected by 1A if he broke the law to get the info he shared.
Assange is a rapist (alleged) narcissistic psychopath. He uses everyone and throws them away. Chelsea. The women he raped (cough ‘allegedly raped’), his own Wikileaks team. You name it, he’s pumped it and dumped it.
Assange is a Putin puppet piece of shit who deserves to rot in a cell for the rest of his miserable life.
Assange gave us Trump. Trump gave us COVID disinformation. COVID disinformation gave us over one million American deaths.
So fuck Assange and fuck everyone and everything associated with him.
Love that word “alleged”
Also love the 0 proof of anything you posted
You’d have to have had your head in the ground for the last decade to not know that stuff.
Proof is how I spend my time.
Here is a 30 part profile of Wikileaks, with sources on every page.
Profile In Focus | Wikileaks
An overview of the 2010 Wikileaks Document dump.
2010. United States. Wikileaks Document Dump.
A majority of a chapter on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
Russia Is A Terrorist State: Part 2 (2000s)
An overview on U.S. and Russia Intelligence that I’m working on.
Profile In Focus | United States Intelligence & Russian Disinformation (In Progress)
In addition to an overview on the 2016 Election that I’m also working on.
2016. United States Presidential Election Interference. (In Progress)
I’ll be working on an overview of Assange directly in the next chapters, but the accumulating sources can be found in the middle of this page.
Russia Is A Terrorist State: Part 4 (2016 - 2019) (In Progress) You can CTRL-F " Profile In Focus | Julian Assange " to find them.
And here’s a 37 part overview on the U.S. Green Party that I’m finishing up.
Profile in Focus | The Green Party of the United States (In Progress)
Again, sources are at the bottom of every part.
Proof asked. Proof offered.
#DeetsBringsReceipts
You didn’t post sources you just posted your blog with a bunch of random news articles, none of which even supports your claim
“Telling the truth” and “Asking someone to steal classified information to be selectively revealed in order to further the interests of Russia” aren’t identical concepts.
It’s a matter of intimidating possible future leakers.