Good point by Noam Chomsky and Alice Walker: > You've probably heard the refrain from well-meaning pundits: “You don't have to like him, but you should oppose

Good point by Noam Chomsky and Alice Walker: > You've probably heard the refrain from well-meaning pundits: “You don't have to like him, but you should oppose threats to silence him.” But that refrain misses the point by reinforcing the manipulative tropes deployed against Assange. > When setting a gravely dangerous precedent, governments don't typically persecute the most beloved individuals in the world. They target those who can be portrayed as subversive, unpatriotic – or simply weird. Then they actively distort public debate by emphasizing those traits.