Re: Prosecution of Assange will mark a point of no return, a modern Krystalnacht - Re: Ecuador Handing Over Assange To UK

On Wed, Aug 08, 2018 at 06:40:17PM +0000, jim bell wrote:

On Wednesday, August 8, 2018, 5:54:00 AM PDT, Zenaan Harkness wrote:

"Who Will Dare Tell The Truth About Government?" Authored by Robert Gore via Straight Line Logic, https://straightlinelogic.com/2018/08/07/americas-kristallnacht/ https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-07/who-will-dare-tell-truth-about-gov...

 > If the US government prosecutes Julian Assange and WikiLeaks,   it will mark a point of no return.

For a few years, I've been mystified about how  any American authority could prosecute Julian Assange, and certainly not for his actions in regard to the 2016 elections.

That's where you're wrong kiddo! Just a few obvious O M G "government" tactics: National security. The illegality of retroactive laws never stopped us from retroactively applying new laws (notwithstanding the illegality of such laws for other prima facie reasons). Anti-terror. Here in Australia we already have the most horrific "anti-terror" (anti freedoms) laws you could imagine Stalin, Pol Pot and Mao coming up with to "ensure the success of the regime" (did I say regime? I meant revolution. Sorry, did I say revolution? I meant Democracy... Ahhh there, that's feeling better already.)

  It is generally figured by the MSM that Assange accepted various emails and published them, but it isn't clear that those emails (or, anyway, most of those emails) came from Russian sources.  And there is already a precendent ("Pentagon Papers") that there can be no prior restraint for such publication, even if the publisher knew that the information was illegally taken from a government source.  

And, due to 'discovery' rules, the American government would have to reveal a great deal about what they knew,

Your trust in the application of the fule of law is astounding. Good luck,

and how they knew it.  Just about all downside, very little upside.

          Jim Bell