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

[Zenaan Harkness]

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 <zen at freedbms.net> 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-government
> 
> 
>  > 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