Fnord wrote:
Sweetleaf wrote:
Fnord wrote:
Julian Assange engaged in acts of espionage against the people and government of the United States of America.
I have never quite understood what was going on with that. Can you in simple terms say what specifically was wrong with what he did? ...
Espionage is a crime. Crimes are wrong.
Any more questions?yes: is it right that the US espionage act determines what other country's citizens can and can't do in other countries?
btw. Assange at first published information very carefully, then a bunch of newspapers just dumped it all out into the public, names uncensored and all. So Assange just followed suit and released the rest.
yet, the newspapers weren't locked up in solitary confinement without indictment.
The UN High Commissioner for torture took on the case. He considers the treatment of Assange as torture, and tgerby a human rights violation.
Why is it okay for the US to commit torture and extrajudicial killings, and then torture one of the guys who publicized it?
Crimes are wrong. So why go after only one criminal?