Re:Media blackout after key witness against Assange admits l...
by ben_w on Friday July 02, 2021 @05:00PM
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> How about a little goddamn proof? How about a valid legal case that follows the laws of the USA?
In theory, that’d be the job of the court case he’s fighting an extradition to not face.
And, to be clear where I stand, in the (unlikely) event that anyone’s secret services care what I think, they’d have to be a lot more open and honest about their mistakes for me to trust them when they say “we need X secret, trust us” — almost everything that people like me get to hear about them are their mistakes, and a whole lot of hubris to go with those mistakes; while I like to assume they can’t all be that bad, the fact is I can only form opinions by what I learn, and whatever good any of them might do is kept secret (or so vague it might as well be) and is unlearnable, while the bad stuff is writ large.
(None of this is relevant to the judicial systems in any country or Assange).
In theory, that’d be the job of the court case he’s fighting an extradition to not face.
And, to be clear where I stand, in the (unlikely) event that anyone’s secret services care what I think, they’d have to be a lot more open and honest about their mistakes for me to trust them when they say “we need X secret, trust us” — almost everything that people like me get to hear about them are their mistakes, and a whole lot of hubris to go with those mistakes; while I like to assume they can’t all be that bad, the fact is I can only form opinions by what I learn, and whatever good any of them might do is kept secret (or so vague it might as well be) and is unlearnable, while the bad stuff is writ large.
(None of this is relevant to the judicial systems in any country or Assange).