[Politics] Julian Assange

[Greg Bobkin]

ok ...give him to the Yanks then , im sure Amnesty will be embarrassed with their association.

I'm not quite sure why you've set up a poll when – given your antagonistic responses to almost every other poster so far – you seem totally unwilling to listen to any points that you don't agree with.

You clearly have made up your mind what should happen to him, why do you care what anyone else thinks (unless they agree with you)?

 

[sydney]

so if Assange is defending rape charges in Sweden why is he facing extradition to America ...??

and why were the charges of molestation in a lesser degree dropped if they had a firm base...?

 

[sydney]

I'm not quite sure why you've set up a poll when – given your antagonistic responses to almost every other poster so far – you seem totally unwilling to listen to any points that you don't agree with.

You clearly have made up your mind what should happen to him, why do you care what anyone else thinks (unless they agree with you)?

thanks so much Gregory , really , i just thought that seeing many on here are so willing to cut people slack that more than one may support Assange's efforts to uncover the toxic culture of the military , particularly in regard to seconding strategic targets in the Middle East and the treatment , torture and depravation of basic right carried out at Guantanamo Bay, never mind , i must say i am moderately surprised.

 

[Greg Bobkin]

thanks so much Gregory , really , i just thought that seeing many on here are so willing to cut people slack that more than one may support Assange's efforts to uncover the toxic culture of the military , particularly in regard to seconding strategic targets in the Middle East and the treatment , torture and depravation of basic right carried out at Guantanamo Bay, never mind , i must say i am moderately surprised.

OK

 

[W3D]

Joey Barton is currently getting sued by Jeremy Vine for constantly calling him 'bike nonce' with absolutely zero evidence. Assange hid from sex charges. How hard is that to understand?

Barton and Vine. Now there's a couple of Narcissists for ya!

 

[beorhthelm]

I haven't really gone into the details of what he released but to me he revealed himself as a wrong 'un when he got friends including Jemima Khan to stand bail for him over the Swedish rape charges then left them hanging when he sought asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy. The writer he hired to ghost his autobiography has described him as a self-righteous narcissist.

also misappropriated the funds raised to defend Manning.

i've enjoyed the irony that Manning has been long since released, while Assange continued self-imprisonment in the embassy then in actual prison. he'd have been release long ago if he'd just faced the music - that's if he'd even be convicted in US with a 1st amendment defense.

 

[Colonel Mustard]

also misappropriated the funds raised to defend Manning.

i've enjoyed the irony that Manning has been long since released, while Assange continued self-imprisonment in the embassy then in actual prison. he'd have been release long ago if he'd just faced the music - that's if he'd even be convicted in US with a 1st amendment defense.

Yes, he has some weirdly Trump-like characteristics.

 

[Doc Lynam]

The man expertly weaved his person issues into wikileaks narrative. Maybe his past is finally catching up with him.

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

Very tough all this.

But the ideal would have been for him to face trial in Sweden, which is a mature justice system which he can have faith in.

By accounts the fella is a bit of a bell end. But if my country has been going around acting like Russia, I want to know about it. I also think it's a much lesser crime to publish classified info, than it is to be the one who steals it. I personally don't think the US justice system can be depended on as fair in the current febrile environment in an election year

 

[London Irish]

To be freed at last. A great day for free expression and journalism, not often you can say that

 

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[Miximate]

I’ll give him a month before an ‘accident’

 

[Lenny Rider]

Trumped up charges, pardon the pun, a worrying indictment of our world, if you have an opinion or information that threatens the establishment, watch your back

He is free, but what is free? The US killed their own president 60 years ago

 

[Zeus]

Persecuted for sharing the truth. Insane he was in prison that long at the whim of the UK puppet master because he had the audacity to expose their crimes.

 

[sparkie]

Good riddance.

 

[borat]

Fantastic news.

His imprisonment is/was a stain on the US and UK government and the pretence of a free press.

Hopefully he finds some peace after being held in horrific circumstances for such a long time.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Good riddance.

Why ? Because war crimes should be covered up by the state and not exposed ?

 

[Sussax]

Why ? Because war crimes should be covered up by the state ?

More so his alleged treatment towards women.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

More so his alleged treatment towards women.

Fair point - he should have been sent to Sweden for trial BUT not the US.