The chilling message has been sent. Assange has been confined without trial for various reasons for nearly ten years (minus the 6 months for the only crime he h

The chilling message has been sent. Assange has been confined without trial for various reasons for nearly ten years (minus the 6 months for the only crime he has been convicted of, bail violation). This extradition should have been done long ago so that he could stand trial. Either he gets convicted and then we know that liberal democracy and a free press is dead in the US, or he gets exonerated and the civil suits that he will bring will send a chilling message to the suppressors of free speech. My sincere hope is for the latter. I have held off on contributing to his defense fund because denying extradition because US prison food is shitty would just mean that the next journalist is kept quiet, and in many ways is far more chilling. Once he is extradited to the US and is set to stand trial, I hope each and every person on this thread helps ensure him the effective counsel he needs to send the once-in-a-generation reiteration of the message that a free press is essential to a free state.