• ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    thats what being a dissident gets you in the us.

    may there be mercy on his soul if he even gets extradited.

  • spez_@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    The Australian government voted on a motion to bring him home. He is a journalist who did nothing wrong.

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      2 years ago

      Espionage is something wrong. Hiding behind a Russian website to make your posts that threaten us national security?

      That definitely a paddlin’. Widdew ol juwian did nuffink eh?

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      2 years ago

      He is a journalist who did nothing wrong.

      You mean besides the rape where he hid in Ecuador until the statute of limitations ran out?

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        2 years ago

        Every political opponent of America is a rapist and their hard drive is filled with child porn when they get arrested

        There’s a pattern here…

        It must be the pedophilia that makes them expose America

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    2 years ago

    Honestly, I skimmed this title and thought it said he was found in a ditch. I’m surprised he has lasted this long.

  • Muad'Dibber@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 years ago

    I really wish Assange had been able to escape the US torture regime, like Snowden was able to esaping to Russia. Years and years of suffering all because the Obama regime needed to “make an example” of whistleblowers.

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    2 years ago

    Remember the US did not seek extradition for the 2013 leaks he coursed Chelsey manning into getting him, it wasn’t until he conspired with Russia to interfere in the 2016 election that the US decided to seek extradition.

    Page 44 of the Muller Report In order to expand its interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the GRU units transferred many of the documents they stole from the DNC and the chairman of the Clinton Campaign to WikiLeaks. GRU officers used both the DCLeaks and Guccifer 2.0 personas to communicate with WikiLeaks through Twitter private messaging and through encrypted channels, including possibly through WikiLeaks’s private communication system.

    https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/15/politics/assange-embassy-exclusive-documents/index.html Despite being confined to the embassy while seeking safe passage to Ecuador, Assange met with Russians and world-class hackers at critical moments, frequently for hours at a time. He also acquired powerful new computing and network hardware to facilitate data transfers just weeks before WikiLeaks received hacked materials from Russian operatives.

    • DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 years ago

      He definitely (cherry) picks on the US of A. Does he have to take on everyone to be a True Scotsman?