you mean if he wasn't a sleezy dude who made the world worse at every opportunity, people wouldn't be happy to see him arrested? wild.
Okay, which of these things do you think merits jail time exactly? Because if none of them do, I don't see why I should be happy about the arrest, seeing as it's very obviously for other reasons that I really don't want to support.
Ok? This is about Wikileaks, an instrument for Russia, not some fantasy news outlet.
Wikileaks selectively leaking the Panama Papers to protect Russian interests and suddenly not caring about transparency:
He's an instrument of Russian propaganda and probably committed sexual assault a few times on top of it.
That's a strawman. The assertion isn't that Julian Assange should've done something wildly different, but the same thing, just for a different team. After all, politics is just team sports nowadays, so that description fits pretty well.
Okay? I said I'd rather have them biased than not at all. Fits pretty well for WikiLeaks, I'd say.
He isn't charged with the sexual assault, though.
The thing is this isn't sports, it's real life, so both teams aren't the same. He made the world worse.
According to this thread, Assange can still be extradited to Sweden if Swedish authorities request it.
I agree that he did (eventually), but what exactly do you want to have him charged with? Making the world worse? Who is supposed to assess this?
And wikileaks actively reached out to the Trump campaign in an attempt to coordinate. Trump knew about the emails before they were released, because he even hinted at an event something was about to happen. Stone and Jr both talked to wikileaks on twitter. And we have Donald himself saying he "loves wikileaks" because of course he did, they were releasing emails to help him get elected.
If Wikileaks had leaked *everything* they were given, when they were given it, that'd be one thing.
Well he didn't so get out of here with your "both sides" hypothetical nonsense. It's always amusing to see moderates imagine what Democrats, given some circumstances, would really be like, while Republicans actively do that behavior. A reminder that the President was cheering on wikileaks before you say "which Republicans?"
I'd be happy with him being charged for rape as well. Whatever ends up putting him in jail, if they're arresting him I assume they have a case.
Not true. He continuously insisted on being questioned from the Embassy rather than being extradited to Sweden. I think you would benefit from reading this.
Exactly, but people on this forum are against whistleblowers in general.
Yes, but the thing I'm arguing is that there are charges I'd rather not seeing him going to jail for. I know it'll never be that clear cut, but I'd rather see him go free than this whole thing having a chilling effect on future whistleblowers that choose to not leak stuff out of fear of repercussions.
