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Are You Glad Julian Assange Has Been Arrested?

Are You Glad Julian Assange Has Been Arrested?

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Moderate Right said:
What say you?
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Yes. He is an enemy of the United States of America.

That said, he is no more of an enemy than the New York Times or any other domestic journos who steal and publish classified information. They should all be imprisoned or shot.
 
NO and YES.

No, because I agree that he is a journalist with as many rights as, say, the biased New York Times.


Yes, because -- according to some media talking heads -- he may be forced to divulge some secrets that could seriously embarrass the Democratic Party.
 
Without question. Assange is a traitor to the United States of America and should be treated as such.
 
AmNat said:
Yes. He is an enemy of the United States of America.

That said, he is no more of an enemy than the New York Times or any other domestic journos who steal and publish classified information. They should all be imprisoned or shot.
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Shot is a little extreme. I would be pretty impressed to see brennan, clapper, comey, assange, and strozk in a photo op in the prison yard.

Brennan seems to be a little sweaty on cnn these days....... Harry Reid headed for the hills.
 
akyron said:
Shot is a little extreme.
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It is the traditional penalty for espionage. Though life imprisonment would also be fine.
 
I would have voted neither but that wasn't a choice and in some ways he exposed the democrats for what scum they are....The underhanded attempt to remove Sanders and prop up Hillary is a disgrace. And Assange exposed it.
 
Moderate Right said:
What say you?
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No.

AmNat said:
Yes. He is an enemy of the United States of America.

That said, he is no more of an enemy than the New York Times or any other domestic journos who steal and publish classified information. They should all be imprisoned or shot.
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Julian Assange is just a conduit for the information.

He's not the problem but a symptom of a much larger epidemic.

Partisan hackery.

People are displeased with how the government is ran and international BS we're involved in. They know, they're really powerless to do anything, so whistle blowing seems like the option.

We elect idiots and they hire retards to high level government positions, then those retards hire more retards.

After a while there are a disproportionate retards in the government, all these leaks it and idiots blabbing to journalist prove the point.

If the MSM wasn't full of partisan idiots trying to push a narrative, I wouldn't really be bothered by the they stuff leak.

It's the governments fault for hiring these retards in the first place.
 
Not sure I have a dog in the fight.
 
I'm ambivalent.
 
AmNat said:
Yes. He is an enemy of the United States of America.

That said, he is no more of an enemy than the New York Times or any other domestic journos who steal and publish classified information. They should all be imprisoned or shot.
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Good point. Assange is a criminal but the left look up to the NYT, etc as heroes.
 
AmNat said:
Yes. He is an enemy of the United States of America.

That said, he is no more of an enemy than the New York Times or any other domestic journos who steal and publish classified information. They should all be imprisoned or shot.
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AmNat said:
It is the traditional penalty for espionage. Though life imprisonment would also be fine.
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American journalists must be shot you say. As if Assange were a journalist of any kind which he is not. Assange is an America hating rightwinger who Putin gave a television talk show in Moscow broadcast throughout Russia. Assange's last taped program occurred while he was in Sweden where police with handcuffs were hunting him. Nothing since of course. No Russian media guy print or broadcast has the protection of the USA Constitution. Nor would Americans call him a journalist.

While you're hollering for American journalists to be shot maybe you could use Trump's border wall to do it. Get both the migrant civilians down there and the American MSM from all over. Both of 'em and each of 'em at the one and the same wall. If so you wouldn't be the first to think of having the state shoot these very people willy nilly.

One of your big problems though is that the Army won't do that at the border, the feds don't shoot people as capital punishment and Utah is the only state to still use a firing squad (as an alternative and on request). Shooting as a death penalty is very hard to come by these dayze. Unless you took the law into your own hands of course which is not recommended or wise. Trump is the ultimate bad example of it btw.
 
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I have zero empathy for Assange. He seems like a horrible person by just about every measure. And while I support much of Wikileaks has done, I don't believe Assange was doing it for any noble goals. I think he liked the bad boy reputation and the fame.

What I am less easy about is him being handed over to the US. If he is just prosecuted for inciting a crime, such as instructing Manning to break the law and telling him how, then I guess I am ok with that, but I also don't think something like that should mean more than a few years in prison. I DON'T want him being treated more harshly due to the information being classified. Manning has zero obligation to protect our nation's secrets. ZERO. I don't want us being "creative" with our law enforcement just because I don't like the guy.
 
AmNat said:
Yes. He is an enemy of the United States of America.

That said, he is no more of an enemy than the New York Times or any other domestic journos who steal and publish classified information. They should all be imprisoned or shot.
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You are not much for a free press.

Trumpanzee propaganda is more you style, got it.
 
I'm interested to see if he'll sing about wikileaks' coordination with Tweety's campaign. I'm not optimistic that he will, however.
 
Yes. He's a pissant and a willing tool of the Russian state.
 
Skeptic Bob said:
I have zero empathy for Assange. He seems like a horrible person by just about every measure. And while I support much of Wikileaks has done, I don't believe Assange was doing it for any noble goals. I think he liked the bad boy reputation and the fame.

What I am less easy about is him being handed over to the US. If he is just prosecuted for inciting a crime, such as instructing Manning to break the law and telling him how, then I guess I am ok with that, but I also don't think something like that should mean more than a few years in prison. I DON'T want him being treated more harshly due to the information being classified. Manning has zero obligation to protect our nation's secrets. ZERO. I don't want us being "creative" with our law enforcement just because I don't like the guy.
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Is the bolded a slip of the tongue?

Edit -- Sorry, manually keying in bold tags isn't working. You mention Manning where it sounds like you're talking about Assange.
 
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Completely ambivalent. It's one thing to 'like' or 'dislike' a politician. I don't see why partisans on the left and right have to get worked up about bit players and sideliners. Assange did this and that, some liked it some didn't. Probably wielded outsize influence for a brief moment in history but did he really upset the apple cart that much?

Those who 'hate' him or 'love' him for whatever help wikileaks gave the trump campaign should also remember the Manning business and what made wikileaks famous in the first place. Back then he was roundly considered a tool of the far left.

Me, I can no more be 'glad' he was arrested than whether it rains tomorrow or not because it affects me little now and it was inevitable anyway.
 
AmNat said:
Yes. He is an enemy of the United States of America.

That said, he is no more of an enemy than the New York Times or any other domestic journos who steal and publish classified information. They should all be imprisoned or shot.
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Moderate Right said:
Good point. Assange is a criminal but the left look up to the NYT, etc as heroes.
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I don't see you distancing yourself from the crackpot lunatic idea that Americans journalists must be shot as enemies of the United States of America.

I'd mentioned in scrolling how I wonder whether the Right would like to use Trump's border wall to shoot both unarmed migrant civilians and now all American journalists you don't approve of or like. Plus the American Right fails to recognize Assange as a Putin operative and not a journalist entitled to protection under the US Constitution. Quite a few over there on the Right sound trigger happy.
 
I don't know that his arrest is a thing about which to be glad or sad. It just is what it is.
 
DH Kirkwood said:
Is the bolded a slip of the tongue?

Edit -- Sorry, manually keying in bold tags isn't working. You mention Manning where it sounds like you're talking about Assange.
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Holy crap, yes, I had a brain fart. Too late to edit, though. Manning DEFINITELY had an obligation to protect our classified. She was an American, a soldier AND signed multiple NDAs acknowledging her legal obligation to protect it.
 
AmNat said:
Yes. He is an enemy of the United States of America.

That said, he is no more of an enemy than the New York Times or any other domestic journos who steal and publish classified information. They should all be imprisoned or shot.
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Based on this comment I would have to say that you're closer to being an enemy of the United States of America than any journalist.
 
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