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ahem Do you remember who Julian Assange is? ahem
by somesortofsystm 6y ago
ahem Do you remember who Julian Assange is? ahem
- starfallg 6y agoThe fact that you can talk about Julian Assange openly is the point. It doesn't matter what he did was lawful or not, or whether the law itself is right or wrong. In the end, he decided to hole himself up in a foreign embassy in London to avoid extradition to Sweden on some sex charges.
- somesortofsystm 6y agoNo, he didn't. That is entirely and absolutely FALSE, and you are feeding this false narrative by parroting this nonsense. He offered to go back to Sweden to face the charges on the proviso that he would not be expedited from Sweden to the USA. This was not guaranteed. Julian Assange is a political prisoner. All of the bogus sex crime charges against him have been dropped, and were never intended to be anything but a lever to get him to go back to Sweden so he could be extrajudicially rendered back to the USA - since Sweden and the USA have a track record of such criminal behaviour, Julian rightfully required a guarantee that the Swedish government could not provide. And as a result Julian Assange is currently being psychologically tortured in Belmarsh - and has yet to face any of the charges against him. Nobody should think that Assanges' case upholds the highest values of Western legal justice, because it does not. What is being done to Julian is tantamount to the same sort of treatment one would expect to happen to dissidents in dictatorships. Stop spreading the nonsense, and learn the facts about his case - it is chilling to the core.