The US Government’s Plot to Murder Julian Assange
The US Government’s Plot to Murder Julian Assange | The Nation
While dictators kill troublesome journalists with guns and missiles, democracies can afford to be more patient. But the end result is the same.The Nation
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in reply to NightOwl • • •Let’s not forget Obama, who initiated Assange’s slow, grinding political assassination.
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in reply to NightOwl • • •The article says the Trump administration considered killing Assange but gave up the idea. The article says that the new plan is to kill him by putting him in prison for the rest of his life. This isn't killing someone though. Language is meant to convey meaning, this is just word play.
Also, I don't really feel empathetic towards Assange, he acted as a Russian mouthpiece with his show on RT and his interference in the 2016 US presidential election.
From WaPo:
"Assange is a foreign national who reportedly collaborated with Russian intelligence to derail Clinton’s candidacy. As unredacted portions of the Mueller report show, during the 2016 presidential election campaign, WikiLeaks communicated both with Trump advisers and with Russian-intelligence (GRU) front organizations, DCLeaks and Guccifer 2.0. WikiLeaks subsequently sought to cover up its connections with the GRU."
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in reply to workerONE • • •I wish more people would see this. He isn’t some freedom fighter. He happily became Putin’s useful idiot and published the selective leaks Russia provided to swing the 2016 election to Trump. I find it hilarious that after that, Trump wanted to kill him.
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in reply to derf82 • • •The fact the you find it hilarious when you see evidence that directly contradicts your assumptions should be a clue as to where your defense against coming to grips with reality lies.
If Assange helped Trump at the behest of Trump's very powerful ally, why would Trump want to kill him?
Maybe the answer is that Assange did not actually help Trump at the behest of Trump's very powerful ally. Maybe the answer is that Putin is not Trump's very powerful ally. Maybe both of those things are true.
You are literally receiving the world's best propaganda from the USA which has a 100-year history of developing sophisticated anti-Russian propaganda and you're choosing to believe it despite Assange actually publishing documented evidence of US war crimes that put him in a position to be targeted by the most violent military intelligence apparatus in the world and you want to believe the story being told by the intelligence community through their mouthpieces in the government and the news media despite having direct evidence that contradicts your position?
Yeah, real hilarious.
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in reply to derf82 • • •I just read the whole wiki on assange, didn't see anything about selective leaking or any bias from him.
Could you please provide sauce for this claim?
Assange is a brilliant man and a hacktivist from what I read.
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in reply to Goku • • •I get no paywall. I’m betting you want to stay willfully ignorant. Where do you think Assange/wikileaks got the info from the DNC?
Try Wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Democratic_National_Committee_email_leak
2016 Democratic National Committee email leak - Wikipedia
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in reply to livus • • •Everyone deserves human rights and you are being disingenuous to suggest that the OC was saying otherwise.
They said they didn't feel very empathetic toward Assange because he didn't follow the journalistic practices he claimed he was.
Nowhree did the OC say anything bad should happen to Assange, nowhere did they suggest anything that wasn't legal, they didn't really say they had any hopes about the outcome for him.
You are the one who tried to make this argument about human rights instead of about Julian Assange.
Weird how this happens in every thread about the guy. Almost like there are paid posters watching out for this stuff.
livus
in reply to andyburke • • •Whew what a rollercoaster.
Me, reading your comment: Hmm, this comment by @andyburke is right, I was too hotheaded, I should apologize to the original poster.....
Me: ... it is about human rights tho...but maybe I jumped the gun a bit...
Me: .... record scratch followed by laughter. I'd love a job where I was paid to post the stuff I post, though.
Do you seriously think this corner of the fediverse is filled with people paid to change your opinion? These sites are in their infancy, way too small, the only shills around here are for fake Adderall. It's one of the things I like about it.
My advice to the paranoid is get yourself a kbin account so you can literally see who upvotes what. That will end your paranoia about cabals.
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