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The fundamental problem with this sort of accusation is that I could write the same about a person with your attitude towards the situation. "It's absolutely ri
by pdabbadabba 8y ago
The fundamental problem with this sort of accusation is that I could write the same about a person with your attitude towards the situation. "It's absolutely ridiculous how easy it is for Assange (and/or foreign governments with an interest in supporting him) to make gullible people on the internet believe that the CIA somehow ginned up the rape charges in Sweden just because Assange leaked a video that makes the U.S. military look (very) bad--the very same government that commuted almost all of his source's sentence...." And so on.
And no, not "high treason." But knowingly conspiring to access a U.S. Government computer to obtain classified information without authorization, the actual offense listed in the indictment? Sounds about right, if the allegations are true.
- 13415 8y agoI wasn't arguing in the first place, I was expressing my anger and sadness about how gullible some people are, because they don't realize the shift in public opinion and how it was manufactured (and partly also due to Assange's own behavior, no doubt about that). It's not a matter of opinion or one's political views whether Assange was the victim of an orchestrated smear campaign or not.