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I think the pressure from the Australian government had to do a lot with this good news[0][1]. 0. https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Hansard/Hansard

I think the pressure from the Australian government had to do a lot with this good news[0][1]. 0. https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Hansard/Hansard_Display?bid=chamber/hansardr/27604/&sid=0139 https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Hansard/Hansar... 1. https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/10/politics/biden-assange-australia/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/10/politics/biden-assange-au...

yawnxyz 2y ago
Wow. When I was in Sydney I was surprised at how many protests around there were about Julian Assange... didn't really understand why they cared about him or the US. Guess that worked?
- largbae 2y ago
  He is Australian right?
  - gklitz 2y ago
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    - dspearson 2y ago
      How can you commit treason against a foreign country?
      - sofixa 2y ago
        From a another foreign country too. It's pretty similar to the US claiming jurisdiction over Ukrainians running torrent websites from Ukraine. Or over random Afghanis who share their first name (something extremely unique like Omar or Abdul or Mohamed) with a supposed terrorist, enough to kidnap to torture them.
      - rvnx 2y ago
        If it's a foreigner it's possible, but it's called espionage or conspiracy
        gklitz 2y ago
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    - mandmandam 2y ago
      Any decent American patriot, anyone with any love for America and its people and its reputation, would want it to not be committing heinous war crimes. The people who committed treason are the ones who dragged us into multiple illegal wars based on fabricated evidence. Those war criminal fucks cost us trillions and trillions of dollars, and are responsible for milllions of deaths. Assange tried to prevent that, and has paid a terrible price for doing so.
      - KennyBlanken 2y ago
        You're not wrong about the wars, but Assange didn't care about any of that, as their own chat logs prove. https://theintercept.com/2018/02/14/julian-assange-wikileaks-election-clinton-trump/ https://theintercept.com/2018/02/14/julian-assange-wikileaks...
        mandmandam 2y ago
        > Assange didn't care about any of that, as their own chat logs prove. You have a strange idea of what proof means. "Hillary has so much slime on her shirt it is now hard to make dirt stick.” Lol. Btw the author of your link, Micah Lee, has been lying to smear Assange for years [0, 1]. 0 - https://contraspin.co.nz/beingjulianassange/ https://contraspin.co.nz/beingjulianassange/ 1 - https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiLeaks/comments/7o96ot/micah_lee_refuses_to_delete_his_tweet_calling/ https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiLeaks/comments/7o96ot/micah_lee...
    - KennyBlanken 2y ago
      You misspelled "conspired with a foreign intelligence service and then continued to do so, interfering in federal elections" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/assange-offered-pardon-if-he-helped-resolve-speculation-about-russian-n1240424 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/assange-offered-pardon-if... https://www.vox.com/world/2017/1/6/14179240/wikileaks-russia-ties https://www.vox.com/world/2017/1/6/14179240/wikileaks-russia... https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/04/julian-assange-got-what-he-deserved/587008/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/04/julian-ass... And there's even the internal wikileaks chat logs to prove they were working at the behest of the russian government, purposefully targeting Clinton, etc: https://theintercept.com/2018/02/14/julian-assange-wikileaks-election-clinton-trump/ https://theintercept.com/2018/02/14/julian-assange-wikileaks...
Hikikomori 2y ago
Why though? There locking up their own whistleblowers, Daniel McBride.
- DaoVeles 2y ago
  Maybe Assange got too much attention. McBride's attention dropped off almost immediately after he was locked up. More than happy to locked them up unless it creates an image problem. Unfortunately in this country, a whistle blower is a fast track to being punished.
- stephenr 2y ago
  I think you mean David McBride?
averageRoyalty 2y ago
The first link is a motion spoken to independent Andrew Wilkie acknowledging supporters of Assange. The CNN article talks about the governments bid to have all charges dropped (they were not, he had to plead guilty on espionage). Despite Mr. Albanese (the prime minister)'s election promise to bring Assange home, he's officially refused[0] to talk to Biden about it and has never answered questions on what they're doing about it. It is great he's finally coming home, but forcing a journalist to plead guilty of espionage falsely, the decade of harassment and false imprisonment, the fake rape case... This should not be treated as "job done". 0. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-29/pm-says-biden-wont-intervene-in-assange-case/103036314 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-29/pm-says-biden-wont-in...
- KennyBlanken 2y ago
  He was offered a plea deal seven years ago https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/assange-offered-pardon-if-he-helped-resolve-speculation-about-russian-n1240424 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/assange-offered-pardon-if... He refused it. Two years later, the Educadorian embassy kicked him out because they were tired of him smearing his shit all over the walls and assaulting female staff. It's been extensively proven he was acting in collaboration with and in the interests of the russian government: https://www.vox.com/world/2017/1/6/14179240/wikileaks-russia-ties https://www.vox.com/world/2017/1/6/14179240/wikileaks-russia... https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/04/julian-assange-got-what-he-deserved/587008/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/04/julian-ass... "fake rape case"? Take a look at Assange's history of misogynistic comments both in public and in internal wikileaks chats: https://theintercept.com/2018/02/14/julian-assange-wikileaks-election-clinton-trump/ https://theintercept.com/2018/02/14/julian-assange-wikileaks... ...and him assaulting female Ecuadorian staff ...and tell me again how it's more plausible that both Swedish prosecutors and the Swedish criminal court system up to and including their supreme court conspired with the US to fake an entire case around Assange sexually assaulting two women. And then the UK government joined in that conspiracy. And then Ecuador joined in that conspiracy? Or...and bear with me here for a second...he's a misogynistic asshole who has so little respect for women he treats them as sexual objects?

yawnxyz 2y ago

Wow. When I was in Sydney I was surprised at how many protests around there were about Julian Assange... didn't really understand why they cared about him or the US. Guess that worked?

largbae 2y ago
He is Australian right?
- gklitz 2y ago
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  - dspearson 2y ago
    How can you commit treason against a foreign country?
    - sofixa 2y ago
      From a another foreign country too. It's pretty similar to the US claiming jurisdiction over Ukrainians running torrent websites from Ukraine. Or over random Afghanis who share their first name (something extremely unique like Omar or Abdul or Mohamed) with a supposed terrorist, enough to kidnap to torture them.
    - rvnx 2y ago
      If it's a foreigner it's possible, but it's called espionage or conspiracy
      - gklitz 2y ago
        [flagged]
  - mandmandam 2y ago
    Any decent American patriot, anyone with any love for America and its people and its reputation, would want it to not be committing heinous war crimes. The people who committed treason are the ones who dragged us into multiple illegal wars based on fabricated evidence. Those war criminal fucks cost us trillions and trillions of dollars, and are responsible for milllions of deaths. Assange tried to prevent that, and has paid a terrible price for doing so.
    - KennyBlanken 2y ago
      You're not wrong about the wars, but Assange didn't care about any of that, as their own chat logs prove. https://theintercept.com/2018/02/14/julian-assange-wikileaks-election-clinton-trump/ https://theintercept.com/2018/02/14/julian-assange-wikileaks...
      - mandmandam 2y ago
        > Assange didn't care about any of that, as their own chat logs prove. You have a strange idea of what proof means. "Hillary has so much slime on her shirt it is now hard to make dirt stick.” Lol. Btw the author of your link, Micah Lee, has been lying to smear Assange for years [0, 1]. 0 - https://contraspin.co.nz/beingjulianassange/ https://contraspin.co.nz/beingjulianassange/ 1 - https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiLeaks/comments/7o96ot/micah_lee_refuses_to_delete_his_tweet_calling/ https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiLeaks/comments/7o96ot/micah_lee...
  - KennyBlanken 2y ago
    You misspelled "conspired with a foreign intelligence service and then continued to do so, interfering in federal elections" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/assange-offered-pardon-if-he-helped-resolve-speculation-about-russian-n1240424 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/assange-offered-pardon-if... https://www.vox.com/world/2017/1/6/14179240/wikileaks-russia-ties https://www.vox.com/world/2017/1/6/14179240/wikileaks-russia... https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/04/julian-assange-got-what-he-deserved/587008/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/04/julian-ass... And there's even the internal wikileaks chat logs to prove they were working at the behest of the russian government, purposefully targeting Clinton, etc: https://theintercept.com/2018/02/14/julian-assange-wikileaks-election-clinton-trump/ https://theintercept.com/2018/02/14/julian-assange-wikileaks...

Hikikomori 2y ago

Why though? There locking up their own whistleblowers, Daniel McBride.

DaoVeles 2y ago
Maybe Assange got too much attention. McBride's attention dropped off almost immediately after he was locked up. More than happy to locked them up unless it creates an image problem. Unfortunately in this country, a whistle blower is a fast track to being punished.
stephenr 2y ago
I think you mean David McBride?

averageRoyalty 2y ago

The first link is a motion spoken to independent Andrew Wilkie acknowledging supporters of Assange. The CNN article talks about the governments bid to have all charges dropped (they were not, he had to plead guilty on espionage). Despite Mr. Albanese (the prime minister)'s election promise to bring Assange home, he's officially refused[0] to talk to Biden about it and has never answered questions on what they're doing about it. It is great he's finally coming home, but forcing a journalist to plead guilty of espionage falsely, the decade of harassment and false imprisonment, the fake rape case... This should not be treated as "job done". 0. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-29/pm-says-biden-wont-intervene-in-assange-case/103036314 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-29/pm-says-biden-wont-in...

KennyBlanken 2y ago
He was offered a plea deal seven years ago https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/assange-offered-pardon-if-he-helped-resolve-speculation-about-russian-n1240424 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/assange-offered-pardon-if... He refused it. Two years later, the Educadorian embassy kicked him out because they were tired of him smearing his shit all over the walls and assaulting female staff. It's been extensively proven he was acting in collaboration with and in the interests of the russian government: https://www.vox.com/world/2017/1/6/14179240/wikileaks-russia-ties https://www.vox.com/world/2017/1/6/14179240/wikileaks-russia... https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/04/julian-assange-got-what-he-deserved/587008/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/04/julian-ass... "fake rape case"? Take a look at Assange's history of misogynistic comments both in public and in internal wikileaks chats: https://theintercept.com/2018/02/14/julian-assange-wikileaks-election-clinton-trump/ https://theintercept.com/2018/02/14/julian-assange-wikileaks... ...and him assaulting female Ecuadorian staff ...and tell me again how it's more plausible that both Swedish prosecutors and the Swedish criminal court system up to and including their supreme court conspired with the US to fake an entire case around Assange sexually assaulting two women. And then the UK government joined in that conspiracy. And then Ecuador joined in that conspiracy? Or...and bear with me here for a second...he's a misogynistic asshole who has so little respect for women he treats them as sexual objects?