Exactly. He should stand trial in Sweden, for rape.
There is no way in hell he should stand trial in the US, either for embarrassing the intelligence establishment or for embarrassing Clinton and the DNC.
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I wonder if they’ll go after this guy, who exposed so many US assets to danger?
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There were little victory dances done in private, I’m sure; most likely performed by anyone who regularly had to clean up after the guy.
Aye; false equiv is intentionally false, and the BB community is not a monolith.
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I think you are confusing Boing Boing and the BBS here. They are (mostly) not authored by the same people.
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Was hoping for something a bit more…dramatic:
They won’t because Libby’s obstruction of justice was successful.
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Hey, you seem chatty! I should ask you about something I don’t hear people talk about.
What’s your explanation for what happened with Julian Assange and the Belarus leaks?
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Why would I ever have that confusion?
The irony is in the fact that other whistleblower-based stories rarely have (AFAIK) negative comments following them. But this one does.
If I’m wrong about the diversity of responses to other whistleblower stories I stand corrected.
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I don’t know much at all about it at all … I will check the story out however.
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I don’t expect them to, they’re clearly less a “journalistic organization” than a bunch of rabble-rousers who have been successfully coopted as a tool for Putin and the far right. That’s why I think it’s silly to compare their work to that of organizations like MSNBC, which is far from perfect but still holds itself to certain basic standards of journalistic ethics.
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I’m pretty sure people have posted negative things about Snowden’s politics. And I’m pretty sure that if he’d killed a couple of kids in 2014 we’d rarely talk about him without mentioning it.
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It will be interesting to hear what you think. In all of these Assange discussions, I’ve never met a single vocal supporter of Assange that gave two shits about what happened to Belarusian dissidents.
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I don’t disbelieve your first sentence about Snowden, but I don’t think Assange killed anybody. As for “negative whistleblowing” (i.e, targeted against persons one personally idolizes) that Assange did, refer to my post above concerning the concept of embracing whistleblowers regardless of whom they go after.
Lastly, I do agree with your post further above about the whole thing being a shitshow.
I thought that was the Electoral College?
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They should be arrested in accordance with the law, not in violation of it.
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Yep. Reminds me of when it was announced Comey got fired and there was a big cheer from Steven Cobert’s audience.
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Agreed! It’s a good thing that’s not what happened here.
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Who was it here that pointed out, “they’re also not really much of a wiki?” (Wasn’t long ago, can’t find it now)
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I’m not a “vocal supporter” of Assange. I’m more of a supporter of press freedom, of transparency, of whistleblowing; these kinds of things.
One of the best lines from one of the best books that was made into a move illustrates my thinking: "Thomas More: …And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned around on you–where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country’s planted thick with laws from coast to coast–man’s laws, not God’s–and if you cut them down…d’you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.” - Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons
My reaction to the arrest of Assange is the same as the reaction of Thomas More.
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