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Yeah I mean I wouldn't call that an issue about not getting a fair trial, that's just an issue where you don't think the law is just. But you know, you don't ge
by SilverBirch 4y ago
Yeah I mean I wouldn't call that an issue about not getting a fair trial, that's just an issue where you don't think the law is just. But you know, you don't get to just opt-out of the laws you don't like. At the end of the day this could be appealed right up to the Supreme Court, but you have to actually have the trial to find out whether it was fair.
- jakobnissen 4y agoUltimately it's a game of semantics. I'd say a trial is not fair if the law is intentionally built to not weigh any kind of moral defense. What, for example, would you say about extraditing Western journalists to China and have them stand trial for whether they criticized the CCP? Would that be a fair trial?
- SilverBirch 4y agoI would say that the legal and constitutional frameworks of the US and China have some slight differences. In fact, basically I would say that if you're going to claim that the US laws and legal system won't give you a fair trial, you're essentially saying that there is no legal system in the world where you can get a fair trial and therefore you're advocating for Assange to essentially never face any legal scrutiny.
- hulitu 4y ago> In fact, basically I would say that if you're going to claim that the US laws and legal system won't give you a fair trial, you're essentially saying that there is no legal system in the world where you can get a fair trial Team america, world police.
- DiogenesKynikos 4y agoAssange is an Australian journalist who was outside the United States when he published this material. It doesn't matter what barbaric laws the United States has on the books to go after journalists. Assange should not be subject to the laws of whatever tin-pot regime wants to get their hands on him and punish him for airing their dirty laundry in public.