>;Damn right. The treatment of Assange has dealt a terrible blow to the possibility of exposing criminal doings in the military, corporations, political parties

>;Damn right. The treatment of Assange has dealt a terrible blow to the possibility of exposing criminal doings in the military, corporations, political parties, whatever. It sets the example that whistleblowers will not be protected. This is the part that worries me the most - how the hell did we end up in a situation where exposing war crimes by a western nation is likely to have the whistleblower tortured and left to rot in solitary confinement for the rest of their life? And how the hell did we get to a place where few people seem to even care about the war crimes, and where the powers that be have been able to spin this so most people think the whistleblower did wrong? The whole situation says a lot about the current state of the US and the rest of the 5-eyes. Honestly, it's fucking terrifying.