“It is undeniable that the intrinsics of Julian’s case are so shocking it is something one would expect from the worst dictatorships,” Stella Assange says.

"A thin patina of ‘process’ cannot obscure the fact that he is facing 175 years for groundbreaking journalism, that the only agencies who will decide on the conditions and degree of isolation that he will be held in if he is sent to a US prison, pre- and post-trial, are the same agencies that were elaborating plans to kill him while he had political asylum at the embassy, that is to say, the CIA,“ she added.

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Manning went to jail. She broke the law that’s a fact. It is also a fact that there is an indictment waiting for Assange. Are we a nation of laws or just feelings on what’s right?

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Oh so you’re a fascist

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Oh so you’re a reductionist

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Wrong. It is possible to think that someone did the right thing by breaking the law, that does not mean they are not guilty. The question is should they be punished, and to what degree not “lets pretend this did not happen”.

It is quite possible that the answer the the “to what degree” question is Zero even if found guilty.

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