‘There simply is no moral high ground anymore:' Stella Assange argues her husband’s situation is used as justification by authoritarian regimes that imprison journalists
‘There simply is no moral high ground anymore:' Stella Assange argues her husband’s situation is used as justification by authoritarian regimes that imprison journalists
WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange is running out of options to avoid extradition, despite growing efforts from the Australian government to get the case dropped
"It is undeniable that the intrinsics of Julian’s case are so shocking it is something one would expect from the worst dictatorships," Stella Assange says.
"A thin patina of ‘process’ cannot obscure the fact that he is facing 175 years for groundbreaking journalism, that the only agencies who will decide on the conditions and degree of isolation that he will be held in if he is sent to a US prison, pre- and post-trial, are the same agencies that were elaborating plans to kill him while he had political asylum at the embassy, that is to say, the CIA,“ she added.
The promise of WikiLeaks was exposure of wrongdoing, anywhere. Assange ran it as his personal score-settling service to help Russia.
Small man wants to run his own personal foreign policy he can rot in prison for all I care.
The promise of WikiLeaks was exposure of wrongdoing, anywhere. Assange ran it as his personal score-settling service to help Russia.
The US war crimes in Iraq back then didn't help Russia as much as the Russian war crimes in Ukraine now don't help the US. Both are crimes against humanity. It is impossible that they 'help' anyone.
She's mostly right, other than that there never was any moral high-ground outside the propaganda of the western press. We have always been hypocritical on human rights and justifications for invasions.
The indictment is sealed as far as I know. But I think the question is did Assange help Chelsea Manning break into a US Government server to steal documents. If the jury says yes, he is then guilty of computer crimes and stealing US property. Yes, he would then go to jail. Too bad.
We’ve all (anyone with a soul, at least) accepted that Manning was right in leaking. Why are people so hellbent on prosecuting another person for the same moral act? Because he sucks? Come on.