“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 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.
It scares me how human rights goes out the window when it comes to people who are disliked.
Manning went to jail. She broke the law that’s a fact. It is also a fact that there is an indictment waiting for Assange. Are we a nation of laws or just feelings on what’s right?
Oh so you’re a fascist
Oh so you’re a reductionist
Wrong. It is possible to think that someone did the right thing by breaking the law, that does not mean they are not guilty. The question is should they be punished, and to what degree not “lets pretend this did not happen”.
It is quite possible that the answer the the “to what degree” question is Zero even if found guilty.