Julian Assange: the truth is out there

Julian Assange joins the litany of those persecuted for speaking the hard truths: Giordano Bruno, Galileo Galelei, Socrates, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Michael Servetus, Rhazes and the list goes on.

There is your truth, my truth, and the truth. Start by treating anything the media says with complete scepticism. Smoking is good for your health, all fats are bad, sugar industry cover ups How the Sugar Industry Shifted Blame to Fat, weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, communism domino effect, etc.

Rant over.

 

Surely you can't compare assange to great historical figures such as Socrates and Galileo.

All that he has done is released someone else' secrets

 

Truth or not, you can't just hack into government servers and release the information you find. No matter what ends, they don't change illegal actions into legal ones.

Julian Assange is being persecuted for breaking the law..... because he broke the law, not only did he do that but he did it willingly on multiple occasions and showed no remorse.

Outcome is meaningless, he willingly broke the law.

 

Thats only true if you're a conspiracy theorist

 

I find it interesting that Assange avoided treading on the toes of autocrats lest he eat a novichok sandwich.

 

I think you can't even compare him to snowden. Snowden stole the secrets himself, smuggling them out at great personal risk.

 

Which law(s) did he break?

 

Treason im guessing?

 

Can a person commit treason by a country they are not a citizen of?

I think he has probably committed various crimes relating to release of top secret US govt information, telecommunications offences etc. Probably US laws mainly.

 

Allegedly.

I am curious to know which ones he was breaking repeatedly as claimed by @Dan Donoghue.

Should the US be able to reach into a foreign country and extract an Australian citizen based on an allegation @wylie? I would question this reach even if it was proven he did break the law as claimed.

 

Ha haa, ha, washington post....pffft!

 

What about Mr Kim Dotcom. The yanks reached reached over to Kiwi Land and tried to nab him.

I think if Julian did more house keeping such as clean the bathroom and did his bed, maybe he'd still be in the embassy. Id rather be living in a 3 storey building than a 10 foot cell.

 

Of course they did... on behalf of the US. So you aren't prepared to answer some basic questions on whether you think that extraditing him to the US based on the allegations is fair and reasonable?

 

Kim has this pinned to his Twitter:

Frankly I think these claims of 'he broke the law' as if it is just black and white is a ridiculous misrepresentation of what has occurred in cases like this.

 

Joe. Sit down and listen carefully. The yanks run the world.

 

Yep - just like Australia is currently extraditing a guy from the US for alleged murder in Australia.

I imagine there are a gazillion hurdles the legal system has to leap thru prior to an extradition notice being issued - and one of those would be a strong prosecution case. The reason he "hid" in the embassy was because Ecuador and the US did not have an extradition agreement ... the UK and US do.

As soon as he was tossed out of the embassy - or they invited the UK police into remove him - as embassy grounds officially are under the same rules of the country of origin - the UK/US agreement swung into action