Assange is a Russian cocksucker who considerably assisted Trump's narrow success in 2016. Fuck him.
this post was submitted on 10 Nov 2023
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That’s all true, but his original arrest and prosecution was still a politically-motivated attack on freedom of speech.
Imagine falling for Assange's bullshit so hard that you think he's a free speech absolutely and not someone who leaked specific things for a specific purpose and that purpose was undermining democracy.
Oh, he’s a vindictive partisan hypocrite whose interest in “freedom of speech” is purely self-serving. But when it comes to precedents and principles, we don’t get to apply them selectively to people we like or dislike.
attacking the us war machine is noble. calling it an attack on democracy is dishonest
If I had that belief, I'd argue against the war machine then, rather than literally conspire to undermine a democracy by trying to sway public opinion in a dishonest way.
Because those two things seem completely unrelated and one of them is really bad.
When you are on the side Greene maybe you should rethink your position. This man betrayed everything journalism stands for. He needs to be prosecuted very publicly. Large portions of this country still don't understand what he did.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A group of lawmakers including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) called on President Biden to drop the extradition and prosecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
“As members of Congress deeply committed to the principles of free speech and freedom of the press, we write to strongly encourage your Administration to withdraw the U.S. extradition request currently pending against Australian publisher Julian Assange and halt all prosecutorial proceedings against him as soon as possible,” a letter dated Wednesday by the group reads.
The unity of the far-right and far-left lawmakers in the letter is notable, as many in the group have traded barbs with each other during their time in Congress.
In the same week as the letter regarding Assange, Greene was a leader in the effort to censure Tlaib for her recent anti-Israel statements.
The WikiLeaks founder was arrested in 2019 in the U.K. on a U.S. warrant and has been fighting in British court to try and avoid being extradited to the U.S. to face charges.
“Press freedom, civil liberty, and human rights groups have been emphatic that the charges against Mr. Assange pose a grave and unprecedented threat to everyday, constitutionally protected journalistic activity, and that a conviction would represent a landmark setback for the First Amendment,” that group wrote at the time.
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