Assange Arrested

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This socialist lefty I respect goes hard here, VERY HARD.

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On 4/11/2019 at 5:30 AM, Hugo Stiglitz said:

Gregg Popvich after a losing season and a wine bender 

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On 4/16/2019 at 8:56 AM, WhatTheBuck said:

Never heard of Tom Woods. Ron Paul is a crazy person. 

Sure

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On 4/11/2019 at 2:24 PM, Laxtonto said:

The issue here is much of the information published by Wikileaks is tied to government secrets around the globe, not corporate manlfesence.

What's the difference?

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Remember in 2019 when Julian Assange smeared doo doo on the walls?

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19 minutes ago, Chooky said:

Remember in 2019 when Julian Assange smeared doo doo on the walls?

While listening to wall of voodoo on his "Ecuadorian" radio

Edited April 20, 2019 by Mapache

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14 hours ago, American Swindle said:

This socialist lefty I respect goes hard here, VERY HARD.
 

 

 

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66 minute read 

 

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Poor guy. 

[Nice Guy Eddie 13725]

Labeling yourself a journalist doesn't allow you to break the law.  And slippery slope arguments don't carry any weight.

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1 minute ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Labeling yourself a journalist doesn't allow you to break the law.  And slippery slope arguments don't carry any weight.

Whether Assange labels himself as a "journalist" or not has nothing to do with the charges being made under the Espionage Act.  

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Just now, Fozzz said:

Whether Assange labels himself as a "journalist" or not has nothing to do with the charges being made under the Espionage Act.  

but it has everything to do with how some are defending him.

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Can't wait to see it all play out.

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[Hugo Stiglitz 23367]

I’m not a fan of this indictment and I hate Assange.

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5 hours ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

I’m not a fan of this indictment and I hate Assange.

Lmao. I think you actually are a fan. 

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18 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

but it has everything to do with how some are defending him.

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Assange Smear 1: “He is not a journalist.”

Caitlin JohnstoneFollow

Apr 22

Yes he is. Publishing relevant information so the public can inform themselves about what’s going on in their world is the thing that journalism is. Which is why Assange was just awarded the GUE/NGL Award for “Journalists, Whistleblowers and Defenders of the Right to Information” the other day, why the WikiLeaks team has racked up many prestigious awards for journalism, and why Assange is a member of Australia’s media union. Only when people started seriously stressing about the very real threats that his arrest poses to press freedoms did it become fashionable to go around bleating “Assange is not a journalist.”

The argument, if you can call it that, is that since Assange doesn’t practice journalism in a conventional way, there’s no way his bogus prosecution for his role in the Manning leaks could possibly constitute a threat to other journalists around the world who might want to publish leaked documents exposing US government malfeasance. This argument is a reprisal of a statement made by Trump’s then-CIA director Mike Pompeo, who proclaimed that WikiLeaks is not a journalistic outlet at all but a “hostile non-state intelligence service”, a designation he made up out of thin air the same way the Trump administration designated Juan Guaido the president of Venezuela, the Golan Heights a part of Israel, and Iran’s military a terrorist organization. Pompeo argued that since WikiLeaks was now this label he made up, it enjoys no free press protections and shall therefore be eliminated.

So they’re already regurgitating propaganda narratives straight from the lips of the Trump administration, but more importantly, their argument is nonsense. As I discuss in the essay hyperlinked here, once the Assange precedent has been set by the US government, the US government isn’t going to be relying on your personal definition of what journalism is; they’re going to be using their own, based on their own interests. The next time they want to prosecute someone for doing anything similar to what Assange did, they’re just going to do it, regardless of whether you believe that next person to have been a journalist or not. It’s like these people imagine that the US government is going to show up at their doorstep saying “Yes, hello, we wanted to imprison this journalist based on the precedent we set with the prosecution of Julian Assange, but before doing so we wanted to find out how you feel about whether or not they’re a journalist.”

Pure arrogance and myopia.

 

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