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Driving is driving Doing some calculations is doing some calculations Driving for bank robbers or doing some calculations for the mob can be a crime, if drivi
by africanboy 6y ago
Driving is driving
Doing some calculations is doing some calculations
Driving for bank robbers or doing some calculations for the mob can be a crime, if driving or doing calculations was helping them to commit a crime and you knew it.
> even if he tried to physically get into buildings and steal documents in order to expose warcrimes I would say that they should let him free.
That's your opinion.
I'm not saying you are wrong in principle, but that's not how law works.
- h_anna_h 6y agoSure, and it is your opinion that assange should have refused to help manning.
- africanboy 6y agoI think there's a (big) misunderstanding here. My opinion __is not__ that Assange should have refused to help Mannings, Assange is an adult, he can chose to do whatever he wants. What I'm saying is that Assange should have refused to be accessory to a crime. Journalists are protected when they receive classified informations, even if obtained illegaly, as long as the journalist didn’t do anything illegal He knew he was helping with something illegal (at least he should have known) and that by doing it he would lose the kind of protections guaranteed to the press.
- h_anna_h 6y ago> My opinion __is not__ that Assange should have refused to help Mannings ... Assange should have refused to be accessory to a crime These two are literally the same thing.
- africanboy 6y agoHelping in committing a crime is different from helping. Sorry if I insist on this, but helping != being accessory to a crime. You can help in many ways, most of them are not crimes. If I ask you to help me to set on fire the car of someone who harassed my girlfriend and you say "I can't" you are not refusing to help, you are refusing to commit a crime in order to help me. You might help in other ways like saying "please, don't do this".