Wikileaks Assange Persecuted by US?

[Boris Johnson]

[Boris Johnson]

[Showboat]

I'm not an Assange conspiracy nut. I was just mentioning some of the things that I've read on different websites (mostly the Guardian commentators so no surprise they're full of shit really). However, the one point that did get me was the fact that the UK gov have seemed to go completely overboard with surrounding the embassy and what-not. It just seems like too much to me. As we both agree on the fact that the UK gov happily sends anyone to the US kinda ruins the conspiracy argument. The blog I refered to is here: http://4liberty.org.uk/2012/08/23/anna- ... n-assange/

[Boris Johnson]

[Sparse1]

The US government are perfectly within their rights to object to somebody publishing stolen classified documents, whether they have any legal avenue to do anything about the publisher is another matter. They have gone after wikileaks by pressuring companies linked to them and by seeing if they can come up with a legal case against them - I haven't noticed the rest of the people linked to wikileaks being arrested, kidnapped, killed, or whatever it is people think the US are doing.

All this 'secret black ops' and 'honey traps' stuff is just being fed out by Assange because he knows that there is a section of society who will believe it. Sweden are a particularly soft social democracy who view human rights as invioble, the idea that they would act as stooges for the Americans is absurd - Britain might have done that though, which makes the whole thing even more absurd.

Having sex with a sleeping woman is illegal in most countries - which is why Ecuador didn't get the full support from the OAS that they were expecting tonight - he should co-operate fully and the fact that he isn't makes it pretty obvious that he thinks he is guilty.

[Boris Johnson]

Well put.

Personally I made my mind up that he thought he was guilty when he appeared on Russia Today.

Captain press freedom on Pravda TV

At the very least he's definitely a hypocrite.

[Stratego]

What the hell man. quit spamming me threads.

[The Dharma Bum]

[The Dharma Bum]

About the alleged CIA connection:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/06/a ... -cia-ties/

http://www.counterpunch.org/2010/09/14/ ... -beseiged/

It's not an outlandish idea in the slightest that the CIA would operate like this. It's totally how they do things.

[Zeugma]