Julian Assange plea deal: Government vs the people.
In the plea deal, Assange admitted that he obtained information, related to national defense, that is injurious to the United States. This constituted a violation of the Espionage Act.
Federal prosecutors accepted the admission of guilt. The judge pronounced Assange guilty as charged, and sentenced him to 5 years already serve in a UK prison where he was held - without trial - at the behest of the US Government.
What is the crime? Was camera footage showing criminal acts of the US military killing non-combatants deemed injurious to the United States? What else? Wikileaks did not pick and choose what was either injurious to the United States or detrimental to its national defense. The whole bag of shit was indiscriminately unloaded into the public space for all the people to see.
The people are the government, and we were alarmed and disgusted by what the caretakers (i.e. politicians) of our government have been doing as revealed by whistle blowers to Wikileaks.
And here we are, sitting on our asses like donkeys giving our tacit approval to the plea deal instead of sacking the entire US Government.
Federal prosecutors accepted the admission of guilt. The judge pronounced Assange guilty as charged, and sentenced him to 5 years already serve in a UK prison where he was held - without trial - at the behest of the US Government.
What is the crime? Was camera footage showing criminal acts of the US military killing non-combatants deemed injurious to the United States? What else? Wikileaks did not pick and choose what was either injurious to the United States or detrimental to its national defense. The whole bag of shit was indiscriminately unloaded into the public space for all the people to see.
The people are the government, and we were alarmed and disgusted by what the caretakers (i.e. politicians) of our government have been doing as revealed by whistle blowers to Wikileaks.
And here we are, sitting on our asses like donkeys giving our tacit approval to the plea deal instead of sacking the entire US Government.
