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Maybe because she her goal is not come up with the least damage to herself, but to do what she finds more moral and right. Heroes don't play dumb, heroes do th
by levosmetalo 7y ago
Maybe because she her goal is not come up with the least damage to herself, but to do what she finds more moral and right.
Heroes don't play dumb, heroes do the right thing, make a statement, send the message ... and she is a hero, not someone trying to cover her ass.
On the other hand, whatever she do, she's screwed, her future in such legal and power system is not bright anyways. So why not trying to be "die as a hero" then, it's not likely she would "survive" without "selling out" anyways?
- roenxi 7y agoThere isn't anything heroic about not communicating. Heroism is refusing to communicate dishonestly.
- cyphar 7y agoThe grand jury is an attempt to get something out of her which will sway a jury to decide that Assange is not a journalist and is guilty of conspiracy to commit computer fraud. She's decided to not play that game. To not serve as an accomplice in the US Government's case against Assange. I don't know why you think there's nothing heroic about remaining silent under intense government intimidation. You can come up with a counterexample very trivially -- in the civil rights movement, if you had witnessed a black person going into a "whites-only" bathroom then it would've been far more courageous to refuse to act as a witness than it would be to tell the truth.
- pnongrata 7y agoAgreed. I think one of the messages she is trying to convey is that the legal system is 'bogus'. So it's coherent refusing to play ball with it.