Re:Julian Assange can be extradited to the US, court rules
by shadowgovt on Friday December 10, 2021 @10:37AM
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If he was willing to be a martyr, he would not have holed up in an embassy seeking asylum for years.
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Re:Julian Assange can be extradited to the US, court rules
by hekette on Friday December 10, 2021 @11:30AM
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Willing to be a martyr does not mean that he wouldn't try to avoid it.
Re:Julian Assange can be extradited to the US, court rules
by dane-pgp on Friday December 10, 2021 @05:53PM
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It's remarkable how casually people demand sacrifices of others as a condition for taking their activism seriously.
There's basically no limit to how much someone can demand, e.g. "Well, if he was really committed to transparency, he would have tried breaking into the White House with a camera", or "If he was really prepared to risk dying to bring these leaks to people's attention, he should have self-immolated in front of the US embassy".
Personally, the metric I use is, if someone has achieved more for a good cause than me, and suffered more for it than I would, then they are a martyr for that cause and deserve my respect.