Julian Assange leaving?

[u crank]

Originally Posted by Catfish

This third paragraph sounds like a catch 22 to me
"We have no legal accusation, but come out so we can invent something."
I hope Assange will not move to a Saudi-Arabian embassy, our good friends and guards of human rights and free speech.

So Assange is accused of helping the Russians against Hillary Clinton, so that Trump won the election. Lmao.

Indeed. You couldn't make up this kinda stuff. The Trump–Russia dossier alleges that among other things that Russia was responsible for the DNC email hacks and their appearance on WikiLeaks. It also claims the operation had been conducted with the full knowledge and support of Trump and senior members of his campaign team etc. That brings you to Mr. Robert Mueller. And it is no secret that the Clinton campaign blames Assange for her 2016 election loss. They hate the guy. You know your in trouble when everybody is out to get you.

They have really tricked Assange into doing this, and now... remove the evidence.

It's like a movie. Politics is a dirty business.

Originally Posted by u crank

Politics is a dirty business.

And for those who try to tell the truth then they are deadly.

Good night to all of us...

[u crank]

Originally Posted by Bleiente

And for those who try to tell the truth then they are deadly.

Good night to all of us...

And if you think that authoritarian bent is only on one side of the political divide think again.

Excellent article here by Glenn Greenwald that looks at Julian Assange's case.

Neither the most authoritarian factions of the Trump administration behind this prosecution, nor their bizarre and equally tyrannical allies in the Democratic Party, care the slightest about press freedoms. They only care about one thing: putting Julian Assange behind bars, because (in the case of Trump officials) he revealed U.S. war crimes and because (in the case of Democrats) he revealed corruption at the highest levels of the DNC that forced the resignation of the top 5 officials of the Democratic Party and harmed the Democrats’ political reputation.

They’re willing to create a precedent that will criminalize the core function of investigative journalism because – even as they spent two years shrilly denouncing that most trivial “attacks on press freedom” – they don’t actually care about that value at all. They want to protect only the journalism that advances their political interests, while putting people behind bars who publish information that undermines their political interests. It is this authoritarian, noxious mentality that has united the worst elements of the Trump administration and the Democratic Party that pretends to find tyrannical actions objectionable but is often the leaders in defending them.

https://theintercept.com/2018/11/16/...press-freedom/

Originally Posted by u crank

And if you think that authoritarian bent is only on one side of the political divide think again.

I totally agree with you.

At the moment you can only work out damage limitation.
It usually gets worse before it gets good...

[Mr Quatro]

I think Ecuador is in on it

Someone is pressuring Ecuador and you can freely guess it's not the UK.

https://newsok.com/article/feed/7225...ileaks-founder

Assange, 47, has resided in the Ecuadorian Embassy for more than six years in a bid to avoid being extradited to Sweden, where he was wanted to sex crimes, or to the United States, whose government he has repeatedly humbled with mass disclosures of classified information.

Ecuadorian officials say they have cut off the WikiLeaks founder's high-speed internet access and will restore it only if he agrees to stop interfering in the affairs of Ecuador's partners — such as the United States and Spain. He is allowed to use the embassy's WiFi, though it is unclear if he doing so. Officials have also imposed a series of other restrictions on Assange's activities and visitors — and ordered him to clean after his cat.