[unknownus3r]

I’m from the US and from my perspective he’s certainly an enemy of my country and working to undermine it. A country cannot function if nameless underlings do not carry out the agenda set forth by the elected and appointed people in charge. There are many problems with entrenched bureaucracy but having secrets leaked weakens American power and our government’s ability to handle the problems we face. If you see mudge’s talk about him from way back when, the grudge he holds against the US may be just over funding research. Inciting and assisting Americans who have sworn to protect our secrets to leak them is something I think needs to be stopped as a National security threat. There are a lot of disingenuous comparisons calling this guy a journalist, he’s a lot more than that. Assange is a former hacker and professor and present day activist. Undeniably bright and I respect his technical skills but he’s working against the United States. I’ll say this, though, he’s probably the most trustworthy journalist that walks the earth, sadly

[_xnmw]

The problem is not that he's an enemy of US government interests. Sure he is. The problem is the hypocrisy. The US claims moral superiority, advocates for the non-persecution of journalists, free speech, rule of law and judicial due process, "democracy" etc. in other countries, but it's all lies and hypocrisy. The US criticizes "authoritarian regimes" like Russia in cases like Navalny, whereas the US is no different in treating those it deems to be enemies of the state.

[unknownus3r]

Please show me any country on this earth that doesn’t have its share of hypocrisy. I cannot think of a single one. I know and agree that the US is hypocritical but abusing the law to get a guy who’s inciting American security personnel to break their oaths is not the same as poisoning a citizen of the same country for disagreeing over politics and it’s disingenuous of you to equate that. Just as many China boosters here are trying to equate Assange’s treatment with concentration camps for millions of people

[spacechild1]

There have been plans to kidnap and/or assissinate Assange: https://news.yahoo.com/kidnapping-assassination-and-a-london...

[jrsj]

American “democracy” is a facade and none of these people work for you. They think of you as livestock. There isn’t any hope of this changing without challenging our corrupt government.

[mandmandam]

If you love America then why would you allow brazen warmongers to put us trillions in debt, profiting immensely while doing so? Do you have any idea how far America's international reputation has fallen? Do you have any conception of the debt that has been incurred in the name of the American taxpayer? Do the lives of millions of dead and tens of millions of displaced people around the world mean nothing to you?

Assange showed America necessary truth, and even as you admit this you argue Americans would be better left ignorant, digesting whatever shit the billionaire class decide to feed them. That's not just short sighted, my friend, it's fucking evil. That's not hyperbole - that's evil by about every definition ever invented.

[unknownus3r]

I don’t see what Assange really showed me that I didn’t know from reading most anything else before his leaks. Your post is highly politically motivated, I’m not emotional about this, just thinking rationally. I agree that the US has overextended its military and is involved in a lot of conflicts and operations that seem very irrelevant and poorly reasoned. I want a revamp of the military industrial complex and a change to entrenched, unaccountable bureaucracy. I don’t think any of those things have anything to do with Assange however, and I don’t see any connection between them

[peppermint_tea]

>> I agree that the US has overextended its military and is involved in a lot of conflicts and operations that seem very irrelevant and poorly reasoned

translation : killed a lot of innocent people. Men, Women and Children.

I am emotional about this, and rightly so.

[spacechild1]

> but he’s working against the United States.

Why do you think everybody on the world has to work in the interests of the United States? He is not a US citizen and he did not operate on US soil.