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Assange needs to keep going. The Mandela moment is only a couple of political cycles away.

• throwawaybutwhy 5y ago
  Nah. He has no uMkhonto we Sizwe behind him, nor a nation state financing, training, and arming his comrades, nor a wave of public opinion nor a wide international boycott of his enemies. Just a lonely guy rotting in prison.
  • baybal2 5y ago
    > Nah. He has no uMkhonto we Sizwe behind him, You can change that
  • gatvol 5y ago
    MK was spectacularly ineffective
• 1cvmask 5y ago
  It depends what you mean by a couple of political cycles away. The Democrats and Bill Clinton considered Mandela a terrorist. It was George W Bush who in 2008 lifted Mandela from the terrorist watch list - although he waited till the end of his second term and for Mandela to approach the age of 90. https://www.france24.com/en/20080702-us-drops-mandela-terrorist-list-south-africa-usa https://www.france24.com/en/20080702-us-drops-mandela-terror...
  • chrischen 5y ago
    > The Democrats and Bill Clinton considered Mandela a terrorist. > He explained that the original purpose of the law, introduced during the 1980s while Ronald Reagan was president, was to fight terrorism. "So we're pleased that we could make this correction to what is otherwise a good and important piece of legislation," he said. >> Their original placement on the list occurred during the Reagan admininstration. ?