It's nice to go crazier at a slower rate.  I'm receiving emails that
   appear strange to me.
   On Mon, Jul 5, 2021, 7:14 PM David Barrett <[1]dbarrett@expensify.com>
   wrote:

   Thank you for this:

     Maybe Assange did something in poor judgement, not sure.  Maybe
     conviction of something is appropriate.  Regardless it's pretty
     clear that other things are more important, and anybody working on
     pursuing him is either coerced, confused, misled, otherwise stuck,
     or hoping to actually help him somehow.

   So you acknowledge that there is a reasonable chance he should in fact
   be convicted of one or more crimes.  But you are saying that we
   *shouldn't even have a trial* -- and instead Biden should "pardon

   I didn't say that, and you put asterisks around it?

   assange as being obviously hounded and targeted for trying to help
   everyone".  And

   Not Biden: that should be normal for due process.  I don't know the
   laws to know that well, but there's probably one there already.  I
   can't imagine the police hunting down a half-dead person full of
   bullets to their back because a well-known-criminal said their victim
   was the one shooting people.

   you are concluding he's been "obviously hounded" based on social media
   and news reports?

   The Assange situation has been going on for some time.  We've had a lot
   of exposure to it via different channels.

   So you know, for certain, that there is no substance to Sweden's claims
   of sexual assault?  And you are saying, if the tables

   How would I ever know that?  Didn't I say specifically that I didn't?

   were turned, and it was your daughter who had accused him of assaulting
   her -- and

   I can't roleplay that respectfully.  The situation is too complex,
   you'd have to do whatever your daughter needed in a situation like
   that, which could be either choice, man, but obviously is most likely
   prosecution.  I haven't even seen the accusation to feel out whether it
   was made under duress or personal urgency.
   What if it came to light that somebody was forced to rape somebody
   else, like in MKUltra, which was sanctioned for years and years?
   Drugged and suggested?  What happens legally then?

   everything else in the news reports were the same -- you'd feel that
   justice was served by him being pardoned *despite you him having
   are reasonable chance of being correctly convicted if he went to
   trial*?

   I think I said before that we would charge him with sexual stuff
   _after_ the higher stakes stuff was resolved if needed.  I suspect it
   is inappropriate to charge him with sexual stuff, but I suppose I can't
   know.

   I just cannot believe you are serious.  It feels like you are ignoring
   any kind of "equality under the law" argument to pick and choose who
   gets justice, based on what you *want* to be true, without following
   any actual process to determine what *is* true.  That feels an
   irresponsible position.

   This is not true, is it?  Aren't you doing this more than me?
   You say you want to investigate all the criminal things: how is it
   "equality under the law" in the slightest to focus only on Assange and
   not all the things he revealed that could inform his proceedings?
   How is it "equality under the law" to bring him to trial without fair
   opportunity to form a defense?
   I feel like you have some meaningful points here, but you build them so
   large and ignore all the other points, that I can't imagine fair
   decisions being made from them.

     So "cop" is just a guess?

   Why are you skeptical of Punk's assessment of my guilt being "obviously
   some kind of US cop pushing chat malware", when you wholly

   It doesn't make sense to me that you are saying this.  Do you use PGP
   or any other kind of message signing that can work over an airway?

   agree with his assessment of Assange's innocence?  He's saying I'm
   "obviously" guilty, and also saying that Assange is "obviously"
   innocent.  It feels that he is very comfortable deciding absolute truth
   based on his personal instincts as to what is obvious.  Are you?

   I am obviously not comfortable with that, but at this point I'm more
   concerned with being pushed to hold an absolute truth, than having my
   personal instincts make it up.  I'm probably not alone in that concern.


   -david

   I've deleted the top-posting cruft.

References

   1. mailto:dbarrett@expensify.com