Assange Hearing Day 15

Re:Assange Hearing Day 15 by lukeramsden on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @10:03AM (#24567166)

Makes me livid just reading about this, and other such happenings in my country - but as just a regular Northern tech worker, what on Earth can I do about it? My mother was in London at the weekend and said there were people outside the Old Bailey chanting "Free Assange", but not many. What can one do in the face of what seems to me to be flagrantly violating our own "justice system" to pander to the Americans?

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Re:Assange Hearing Day 15 by chmod775 on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @11:04AM (#24567958)

What do people - whose Government is acting against their wishes, outside their control and who are without recourse by means of the judiciary - what do they usually do?

And no I'm not saying one needs to go all the way to revolution, but people have brought countries to a halt over less important matters. Look at the french! It was fucking gas prices(!) the last time they set things on fire.

I don't necessarily agree with the goals of all groups of people rioting and going on strikes recently, but nonetheless it's a healthy thing to have now and then. Reminds those in power who they are beholden to. Without a good scare now and then they might get ideas - and they will - just look at countries where it's been altogether too quiet in recent history:

"When the preferences of economic elites and the stands of organized interest groups are controlled for, the preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy."

https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/fi...

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Re:Assange Hearing Day 15 by lukeramsden on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @12:27PM (#24568773)

The issue I see is that most of the populous don't even know or hear about, never mind understand, what's going on and what's being done to them - because if it's not in the media (Sun, Mail, Standard, Telegraph, etc) then as far as most of the country is concerned it either doesn't exist, is a conspiracy theory, or is Russian bots causing trouble.

How do you rise up when it's your own people, not just your government and media, trying to pull you back down?

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Re:Assange Hearing Day 15 by edoceo on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @11:53AM (#24568474)

Liberté, égalité, fraternité

That is to say: revolution.

An assault on the aristocracy

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Re:Assange Hearing Day 15 by Synaesthesia on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @02:07PM (#24570033)

Make a noise, talk about it, because it’s being silenced. If enough people are outraged, we can really make a difference.

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Re:Assange Hearing Day 15 by dontcarethrow2 on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @04:25PM (#24571575)

Great way to continously alienate myself. I expect a great amount of eyerolls, and if anyone in my peer group even remembers the name Assange, I assume I can be remembered as some rapist supporter.

I will just use this to poke my future armchair enemies that consistently and confidently speak up about what a champion of human rights the West has been since FoReVeR. Shill of the day I will be!

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