Oh yes, because flying to one of the US's poodle one-way extradition client states would really help it. Because Manning and Assange have had such a great time.
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Wasn't it an American journalist at the Guardian?
Isn't the Guardian available online in the US?
And tell me... how much have the US media been lapdogs of whichever party is in power? It wasn't US media investigating the falseness of claims of WMD. They all rolled over and said "kick us, Bush, and send our sons and daughters off to die for Haliburton".
Oh look, I responded to a 'held for moderation' comment. Effective censorship? Not really.
Espionage is not 'benefit to enemies of the US' more than benefit to the people, or else we could just charge Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld with aiding and abetting Al Qaeda by acting as the world's biggest recruitment agency for them. Espionage is a specific crime - calling this espionage is as accurate as calling infringement 'theft'.
Also, hiding from a corrupt government is now 'admitting guilt'? What exactly is Assange 'guilty' of? So you believe that the US should never offer (political) asylum to anyone as they are 'guilty' back home, especially because they fled to you for safety? Riiight.
I have lived with the actual risk of terrorism (IRA-based, as sponsored by the US), and no, it's not worth giving up liberties for. Even the UK police did not start arming up masively in public places until after 9/11, even after numerous atrocities on mainland Britain, including bombing a hotel and mortaring Downing Street.
That's rather unfair. Hitler did particularly monstrous things that were on a scale unheard of before (since the Middle Ages, anyway). Jefferson was mainly (and definitely) guilty of being like most other landowners of his time, in many countries and therefore somewhat hypocritical. Now, if Jefferson had mass-murdered slaves, you might have a point.
Oh yes, remind me how Clinton was 'brought down' out of office before his time, or how despite huge amounts of muckracking by desperate Republican opponents (such as the uber-hypocrite Newt) that was the worst they could hold against him, or how unpopular Clinton isn't right now...
And the supporting article says that Pessach was citing a David Lowery article and calling it 'seminal'. Says all I need to know about the quality of the article and paper.
Well, with fact- and Constitution-free louts like yourself overpopulating your fascist hole of a country, I'm not surprised. Your granddaddy who fought a war against dicks like you must be spinning in his grave. I know mine should be!
That sounds like a rather dodgy way to end-run around the extradition process. Of course, had he remained in Hong Kong, they could have found a way to keep him there legally which would have invalidated the US efforts to cheat the rule of law.
Everyone within the Fourth-Amendment-free zone *would* have decent broadband by now if you had decent (sorry, actual) competition between ISPs. At the current rate, I'd give it a 50/50 chance in 10 years, although it would still be shocking if not.
Can I point out that large numbers of (northern) European Christians are actually Protestants? Poland is the only substantial Catholic population in north Europe. (Ireland is kinda small.)
Eastern Europe has various flavours of Orthodox Christianity - you know, the bit where the Roman Empire survived until the 1450s.
That's ok then, no-one will abuse it at all, just like the Patriot Act. No-one secretly filmed as evidence of wrongdoing will use this law to SLAPP or sue anyone. No siree!
Wouldn't it have made more sense to 'fix' the harrassment laws rather than make up new ones that will potentially criminalise ordinary behaviour?
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Isn't the Guardian available online in the US?
And tell me... how much have the US media been lapdogs of whichever party is in power? It wasn't US media investigating the falseness of claims of WMD. They all rolled over and said "kick us, Bush, and send our sons and daughters off to die for Haliburton".
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Oh look, I responded to a 'held for moderation' comment. Effective censorship? Not really.
Espionage is not 'benefit to enemies of the US' more than benefit to the people, or else we could just charge Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld with aiding and abetting Al Qaeda by acting as the world's biggest recruitment agency for them. Espionage is a specific crime - calling this espionage is as accurate as calling infringement 'theft'.
Also, hiding from a corrupt government is now 'admitting guilt'? What exactly is Assange 'guilty' of? So you believe that the US should never offer (political) asylum to anyone as they are 'guilty' back home, especially because they fled to you for safety? Riiight.
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Show us where Mike claims he has legal standing to make a legal statement on the issue and your whinings might actually be intelligible.
Not that it matters, because whatever he says - even if he says the sky is blue - you'll contradict him.
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Eastern Europe has various flavours of Orthodox Christianity - you know, the bit where the Roman Empire survived until the 1450s.
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If you were to follow your own advice, you shouldn't have posted, or at least should have been as succinct as Anonymous Howard.
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Ooo look. Tecdirt is kerned, so ASCII art doesn't work. So I think Howard wins, 1-0 ;) (Ok, I know he could have posted a link)
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Wouldn't it have made more sense to 'fix' the harrassment laws rather than make up new ones that will potentially criminalise ordinary behaviour?
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Nope. He may not be looking great, but he's a hale and hearty 76.
But you're right in all else!
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