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You're responding to a summary of a summary of Assanage's essay with a rhetorical (did you mean hypothetical?) suggestion of killing him? I don't think this is

• firemanx 16y ago
  The point wasn't that he wanted to kill him, I think, but rather that if Assange's own views don't respect rule of law and governance, the resulting outcome of those kinds of beliefs is vigilante justice. Essentially pointing out the "you can't have your cake and eat it too" point in all of this.
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  • andreyf 16y ago
    But vigilante justice is homicide, and what Julian is doing is equivalent, how? You could call him an anarchist nerd publishing whatever low-level diplomatic snippets fall through the cracks, but surely, the things that are truly classified won't fall through the cracks to the likes of him. This is the internet: you can publish content anonymously without extraordinary effort. Assanage simply provides a microphone. If he'd been a little less paranoid, he'd have made an amazing journalist.
• defen 16y ago
  I think his point was that, through his actions of attacking the fundamental values of society, Assange has declared himself an outlaw - in the original Anglo-Saxon sense of the word