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[Editor's Note: This is how we received it. We are searching for anything else but the claim that Assange is (being) extradited is currently unsubstantiated.]
Assange is extradited to die in the US empire.
Wikileaks now puts EVERYTHING online in return.
https://file.wikileaks.org/file/?fbclid=IwAR2U_Evqah_Qy2wxNY12FMqFC5dAFUcZL5Kl4FIfQuMFMp8ssbM46oHXWMI
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by bradley13 on Wednesday December 22 2021, @02:51PM (6 children)
Yes, it is clear that Assange screwed up re Sweden. Of course, it has always been clear that the man was missing a couple of marbles. I mean, holing up in the Ecuadorian embassy for years and years was not a rational act - he basically put himself in prison.
That said, the US is being it's usual, dictatorial self. There is absolutely nothing to be gained by pursuing Assange. He is not a US citizen, he was never in the US, he did not himself leak any documents. Trying to prosecute him on the flimsy basis they have invented is...pathetic. Just as the US should have long since pardoned Snowdon, just as they should never have locked Manning up in solitary confinement until he went totally loopy, just like CIA "rendition" is ok, if it happens out-of-sight in other countries, just like Guantanamo should never have existed. At some level in the US government, sheer sociopathic insanity is apparently a prerequisite.
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Thexalon on Wednesday December 22 2021, @03:11PM (2 children)
I agree, he made clear his reasons for trying to avoid US custody at all costs: The treatment of Chelsea (nee Bradley) Manning for doing what Assange had done. That treatment, involving a couple of years of solitary confinement for 23.5 hours a day, without clothing or books or anything except a bed, all before any trial or conviction had occurred, was considered torture by a lot of organizations (e.g. Amnesty International and the UN Human Rights Council) who had looked into it and specialize in that sort of thing. This was also right around the time that Gitmo was operating in full force complete with the war crime of waterboarding, and there was a recently-exposed international system of "black sites" where people the US government didn't like were tortured, and there was zero guarantee that Assange wouldn't end up in there.
There's been a pretty clear reason the whole time why the Powers-That-Be in the USA want Assange in jail for a very long time (or better yet from their point of view, dead). And that reason is that the stuff he published embarrassed them, and they want to create a deterrent for anyone else thinking of doing the same thing.
If Assange had been living in the Middle East, he probably would have been hit with a drone strike a long time ago, and if he'd been not white and in the USA at the time he probably would have been shot and killed in a "tragic accident" or something, but he was a white guy in Europe so they decided they had to try to make going after him look all legitimate-like.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 23 2021, @07:42AM
Look, no surprize, the USA shits it pants and abandons its precious Constitution on a regular basis. And nothing happens. And the patriotism barrage continues at volume 11 and everyone in America forgets and believes in the integrity and honor of the US Military and saving Western civilization.
(Score: 2) by ChrisMaple on Thursday December 23 2021, @05:02PM
Manning is insane. Claiming an ability to commit suicide with clothing, of course clothing was removed.
Some people can't resist the temptation to poke the bear, and act surprised when clawed to death.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 22 2021, @08:15PM
Well, his choices weren't all that great:
1. Small office in the Ecuadorian embassy.
2. Epstein.
3. Guantanamo.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 23 2021, @08:03AM (1 child)
She.
Oh? Tell that to the Jews queers socialists etc who survived WWII Germany that way.
You think his assessment that he'd be killed in transit or in supermax is incorrect, maybe? I think he has the agency to make his own risk assessments, and your armchair quarterbacking will matter only if YOU are ever to be extradited somewhere.
For whatever other foibles and failings he may have, Assange choosing an Ecuadorian embassy over a USA jail ... IDK if you've seen the interiors of embassies and jails, but I'd sure as fuck make the same decision he did.
Yet somehow you are +5 insightful? Boggling.
(Score: 2) by HammeredGlass on Thursday December 23 2021, @11:54AM
"She"
Nope.