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A good overview of the the bunkum Assangians have been making up: http://www.newstatesman.com/david-allen-green/2012/08/legal-myths-about-assange-extradition h

• raganwald 13y ago
  So easy to say "it would be better if someone with a better reputation picked up the baton," so difficult to actually quit your day job and do it yourself.
  • mpyne 13y ago
    And so here we are. You're right, but so is the parent comment. Just witness the difference in reaction between Manning and the much more sympathetic Snowden.
    • raganwald 13y ago
      Oh absolutely both can be right. Just because one thing is easier than the other doesn't mean it's wrong. It might take 1,000hrs to write some code, ten minutes to point out a flaw, and four hours to fix it. All three tasks have value :-)
• contingencies 13y ago
  That has been debunked. Wikileaks legal team responded to this in depth: It is 55,972 words long, which is roughly 70 per cent of the length of a doctoral thesis. Julian’s legal defence committee prioritised this and asked a person to look into the arguments in depth, in order to produce a compelling response due to the harm caused by David Allen Green’s misinformation. It was peer-reviewed and revised and took six months to produce http://justice4assange.com/extraditing-assange.html http://justice4assange.com/extraditing-assange.html