Assange to plead guilty to one charge of espionage and return home to Australia after decades fighting US extradition.
  • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    171·
    5 months ago

    Isn’t it great that a man who exposed governmental corruption and war crimes faced a harsher persecution and punishment than the corrupt governments and war criminals themselves?

    Democracy™️

      • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        45·
        5 months ago

        Notice how you’re angry at the people who released the info instead of the people who were corrupt and deplorable? PsyOps mission accomplished!

        My understanding is that, while it’s likely the source of those leaks was Russia, it’s never been proven wikileaks withheld info about Republicans. I’ve seen the claims dozens of times, but never the evidence, so please share if you do… Otherwise, it’s insane to hate a journalist for withholding information they don’t have, just because it hurts your preferred political party.

        EDIT T+2hrs: 35% downvotes and zero replies or supporting evidence. FYI I asked the same thing on Reddit about a dozen times over the last decade, and the result was always the same — If your position is “I can find no evidence for my claims, and don’t know why I hate WikiLeaks or Assange. I just do.” then you’re probably a psychological warfare victim…

      • audiomodder
        6·
        5 months ago

        Not saying it’s excusable, but I’m guessing he was exposed to a lot of Trump propaganda being in Russia and all

          • filister@lemmy.world
            22·
            5 months ago

            But it’s sad that whistleblowers are even persecuted in a so-called democracy. Like you know you fucked up, but instead of feeling humble and ashamed you start persecutions of the people who have exposed you, while preaching what an exemplary democracy you are to the rest of the world.

            Same with ICC, ICC exposes your ally as a war criminal and instead of upholding law, you start thinking how to sanction the judges and obstruct their actions, because you feel above the law. The US is acting like a school bully who is the only one who can say what’s right or wrong in big parts of the rest of the world, they try to influence foreign governments and install their own candidates, so in a way, they aren’t much better than China or Russia. Heck they even tapped the phones of their allies back then and probably still do.

            • ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml
              4·
              5 months ago

              Private companies do the same, often going as far as to have whistleblowers executed. People (and especially organizations) protect their interests, even (or especially) at the expenses of others lives.

              • Chakravanti@lemmy.ml
                1·
                4 months ago

                You know, that whole issue is now just completely way up in the air. The man in question had no difficulty saying the same. If you think you have any proof, feel free to bring that down to land as hard and as destructively murderous as you’d like to be.

      • zik@lemmy.world
        6·
        4 months ago

        They wanted to make an example of someone. His thumbing his nose at the US government was well publicised, so they made their revenge on him very public too.

      • CyberMonkey404@lemmy.ml
        1·
        4 months ago

        He pleaded guilty and agreed to delete “secret documents”, whatever the hell that would be, as part of the deal

  • randon31415@lemmy.world
    18·
    5 months ago

    How many years would his prison sentence have been if he was extradided the year he fled to the embassy? I feel like he would have been out by now. Wasn’t he leaking early Iraq war corruption stuff? That was 20 years ago.

  • dwt@feddit.orgDeutsch
    7·
    5 months ago

    I mean, I was so sure they wanted to incarcerate him until he commits suicide!

    Wow