[mardoz]

I wholeheartedly disagree with the UK's mass surveillance and the media/public's wilful ignorance of the issue but Assange is suspected of sexual assault and broke bail. He's expected to face the law in the same way as anybody else.

[zarriak]

The warrant for his arrest has been revoked by Sweden and the Swedish prosecutor found he committed no crime. He is not expected to face the law as anyone else, the UK government has already committed crimes in deleting emails regarding him but nobody went to jail. The UN has also ruled that he is being held in arbitrary detention. The only time you get punished is when you go against the US empire. Who was punished for the murder of the two journalists in Baghdad? You only face the law when you are inconvenient.

Due to the embarrassment of the CIA w/r/t to the recent leaks the US government is going to try to prosecute a publisher of classified information for the first time ever.

[MatthewWilkes]

He has committed crimes in the UK that he is wanted for. The charges in Sweden were dropped for practical reasons, something the UK should also have done. It's a sunk cost fallacy, they've spent a huge amount of time and money trying to arrest him despite it not being practical.

[orcs]

To be fair I don't think deleting emails in accordance with their procedures is a crime. And that being the case why would anyone go to jail?

[boomboomsubban]

There is no reason to expect their procedures are legal, this thread is an example of government procedure shown to be illegal.

[orcs]

And also no reason to expect their procedures to be illegal either. True enough about the surveillance, but the two things aren't connected, just because one procedure was illegal doesn't make all government procedures illegal.

[boomboomsubban]

>And also no reason to expect their procedures to be illegal either

Being illegal would be a good reason for going to jail, which is the question you asked.

[orcs]

But they're not illegal so the point is moot. Also illegality does not mean jail. The severity of an illegal action dictates that.

[throw2016]

Authoritarian regimes using courts against dissenters is not new, this is like saying yes he is a dissenter but the court process must be allowed to complete.

How is it that after the Snowden revelations not a single person is held responsible or accountable and its the whistle blowers who are facing the full force of the 'law'?

Assange is stranded, Snowden is in exile and Manning faced the full force of the law. What law is this?