> These are political charges What does this mean exactly? "Political charge" is absurd. Besides, are you seriously suggesting that a petition should be enoug

> These are political charges What does this mean exactly? "Political charge" is absurd. Besides, are you seriously suggesting that a petition should be enough to drop criminal charges brought upon someone? That's not how things work in any civilized country. I tend to side with him at the moment but there is no way I will trust my judgment, or that of 90,000 angry online petition signers, to decide justice for me. Let the trial happen, let's see everything that's going on, this will bring up a lot of things up in the open. Maybe we'll find he's a hero and he's done nothing wrong, or maybe we'll find that he has sold intelligence to the Chinese or whatever. Either way, the right way is to go through the judiciary system.