SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
from the we-just-want-to-make-sure-he-gets-a-fair-trial dept.
Lauri Love[*], in the UK, is facing extradition requests from three separate US court districts and a potential 99 year prison sentence for his alleged involvement in the online protests that followed the death of Aaron Swartz. Depsite no evidence offered by the US, the British courts have preliminarily agreed to extradition and his appeal will be on the 28th and 29th of November. Again, no evidence has been presented against him, but if he were tried in the UK he would be facing a maximum of 32 months in prison, not 99 years as the US is aiming for.
[*] According to Wikipedia's entry for Lauri Love:
Lauri Love is a Finnish-British activist charged extraterritorially with stealing data from United States Government computers including the US Army, Missile Defense Agency, and NASA via computer intrusion.
Previously: Lauri Love to be Extradited to the U.S.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday November 28 2017, @05:46PM (1 child)
"he is an enemy combatant,"
Oh, FFS, can we stop with this Cheneyesque bullshit? The term was coined for the purpose of doing an end run around the US constitution, as well as the Geneva conventions, and all other human rights accords, agreements, and treaties on earth. It was utter bullshit in 2001, and it's still utter bullshit today. If the accused did EVERYTHING that is charged, he's still just a freaking criminal.
Now - about his defense? Assburger? Hell, why we want to bring him here? Leave his lame ass in the UK, and let them deal with his assburgers.
I agree, regarding Manning. (tangentially, wonder how many balogna ponies he's been riding . . . ) I strongly DISAGREE regarding Assange. Snowden . . . sometimes morals and ethics override legalities. I'd like to think that I would have had the balls to do what he did. But, I'd probably have been to chickenshit. Snowden has had a much easier row to hoe. He never swore any oath to this country, so he didn't have to break any.
And, come to think of it, that's part of our problem. Our government seems to think that everyone in the world owes some sort of allegiance to it. Hell, it's Assange's and other journalist's JOBS to expose corruption. Assange did his job. Leave him the hell alone.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 28 2017, @10:57PM
Any laws which forbid you from informing The People of the government's unconstitutional actions are unconstitutional themselves, so there isn't even a real question of legality here. Also, "sometimes"? No, always; unjust laws must be broken and discarded.