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Skipping bail in the UK isn't a justification for extraditing to the U.S.. Assange has beeen charged with a misdeamonor and with violating the Espionage Act, w

Skipping bail in the UK isn't a justification for extraditing to the U.S.. Assange has beeen charged with a misdeamonor and with violating the Espionage Act, which has never before been used against a journalist. It's a huge attack on the 1st amendment. I personally also think it's unjust to extradite someone to a country without them actually have commiting crimes in that country (has Assange even been to the US)? It's like a US citizen being extradited to Saudia Arabia for watching porn on US soil.

KaiserPro 5y ago
> It's like a US citizen being extradited to Saudia Arabia for watching porn on US soil. Its not the same. Regardless of your feelings on Assange, and regardless of your feelings on what the US had been doing in those cables, had this been a russian/chinese/british/french spy, they would have been treated far more aggressively. Again, this isn't a justification, or indeed an endorsement of either Assange, or the US & UK. but, it's clear by UK standards, Assange has a case to answer. The moral case is entirely different, on that I am not equipped to answer.
- partomniscient 5y ago
  It's also clear that UK standards aren't very high. The US want their laws to apply beyond the US to non-US citizens. They can fuck off.
- naasking 5y ago
  > Regardless of your feelings on Assange, and regardless of your feelings on what the US had been doing in those cables, had this been a russian/chinese/british/french spy, they would have been treated far more aggressively. Because actual espionage is working to undermine one government at the behest of another. That's not what journalists do, so the espionage charges against Assange are bullshit.