Ecuador to Expel Assange Within ‘Hours to Days,’ WikiLeaks Says

Re:Ecuador to Expel Assange Within ‘Hours to Days,’ WikiLeak... by vinceguidry on Friday April 05, 2019 @06:58AM (#19581360)

I'm rather struck by the realization here that if a person has spent significant amounts of time in prison being locked up for following their principles, they may start looking at getting locked up for their principles as, well, just something they do.

Is this a traumatic response to the initial experience or something more? After all, being willing to go to prison for your principles underlies much of 'real' activism.

Probably a mix of both.

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Re:Ecuador to Expel Assange Within ‘Hours to Days,’ WikiLeak... by saalweachter on Friday April 05, 2019 @08:13AM (#19581724)

There's also a certain sort of immunity brought about by the initial exposure.

There are a lot of reasons to not want to be in jail: not wanting to be confined, fear of physical violence... but as a middle-aged person with a family, friends and a job, being in jail for any length of time would just wreck my life. I'd lose my job, my relationship with my family would be strained, and I'd probably lose touch with most of my friends. Rebuilding afterwards would be difficult or even functionally impossible.

If I did have my life burned down around me once, my personality would probably tend towards not wanting it to happen a second time, but I could see another person saying "you can't burn ashes" and leaning into it.

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Re:Ecuador to Expel Assange Within ‘Hours to Days,’ WikiLeak... by whamlastxmas on Friday April 05, 2019 @11:17AM (#19583371)

I suspect she holds a tremendous amount of resentment towards her government and basically wants to give them the middle finger because she doesn't respect their legal process after it failed her so miserably

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