The Feds May Come to Regret Charging Assange with Espionage

Re:The Feds May Come to Regret Charging Assange with Espionage by andy_ppp on Saturday May 25, 2019 @10:11AM (#20009152)

You’ve just made up loads of stuff with no evidence haven’t you? We should consider Collateral Murder much more damaging than the release of the video, the act itself has caused much more harm to your beloved American interests.

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Re:The Feds May Come to Regret Charging Assange with Espionage by lixtra on Saturday May 25, 2019 @10:38AM (#20009306)

> We should consider Collateral Murder much more damaging

I think it was right to release the video. But to me, with no military experience and and non-native speaker, it seemed totally possible that the pilots took the reporters for combatants. I wouldn’t want to judge them. In comparison, I found the video of a cop shooting a fellow American crying in fear with an automatic rifle because he was reaching for his pants much more disturbing.

Or the autistic kid tazed to death in the shower.

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Re:The Feds May Come to Regret Charging Assange with Espionage by droithomme on Saturday May 25, 2019 @10:57AM (#20009403)

Shooting a journalist because you think his camera is a gun means you did not exercise reasonable diligence in identifying the enemy target and are still liable for the death. If someone goes to a playground and shoots the children there and says they thought they were armed robbers, it isn't accepted as a defense.

The pilot came back for and shot a guy in a van who was taking his two kids to school. He had stopped to help the reporter.

Anyone watching the video can see the kids in the van. That the pilot didn't proves he was criminally negligent.

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Re:The Feds May Come to Regret Charging Assange with Espionage by astazangasta on Saturday May 25, 2019 @10:42AM (#20009325)

What about when they came back to shoot people who were helping the wounded? Also, "it was a war zone" is a shitty excuse given that the war was illegal and we had no business positioning helicopters over civilian marketplaces in Iraq, period.

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Re:The Feds May Come to Regret Charging Assange with Espionage by hutzlibu on Saturday May 25, 2019 @10:27AM (#20009253)

What is collateral murder?

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Re:The Feds May Come to Regret Charging Assange with Espionage by andy_ppp on Saturday May 25, 2019 @10:32AM (#20009277)

https://youtu.be/HfvFpT-iypw

A video some claim was leaked by Chelsea Manning (to Wikileaks) showing what I believe to be war crimes by US military.

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