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Robᵇᵉᵗᵒ Graham
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It's only a human rights violation if you start from the premise that prosecution of Assange is unjust. However, if they are justifiably prosecuting Assange for crimes other than journalism (like hacking), then it's the same principle as any other crimes.
We've had the system for 200 years where a Grand Jury can force people to testify. You never complained about it before as a "human rights violation", so I don't believe it's suddenly become one now that Chelsea and Julian are involved.
When the Mueller and Congress issues subpoenas forcing people to testify against Trump, I don't hear complaints about "human rights violations".
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Robᵇᵉᵗᵒ Graham
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The first lesson of anarchists is that they never are. They aren't trying to bring down the powerful and corrupt, they are trying to replace the powerful and corrupt with themselves.
I experienced this personally at the Occupy Wall Street protest. I was sitting at a stone table in a quiet part of the park, and some of the organizers came over and threatened violence to make me move, so they could setup cameras for an event they'd schedule for later.
That Che Guevara T-Shirt you all love to wear is from a picture taken hours after Cuban show trials where Che sent his political enemies to jail. The picture doesn't celebrate a revolutionary, but the power that corrupts after you win the revolution. Freedom never came to Cuba.
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Robᵇᵉᵗᵒ Graham
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The only measure of whether Assange "deserves" something is what he's actually charged with, which is in this case conspiring to help Manning hack computers.

If you think he deserves to be jailed for "hacking" because he did something else, then you've got it wrong.
Conversely, if you think he deserves NOT to be jailed for hacking, because he's a journalist, because he's fighting the Man, then you also have it wrong.
I personally don't like this charge. It sounds like something that can entrap well-meaning cybersecurity professionals. While he may be technically guilty, I wonder if the DoJ would prosecute normal people for it if they weren't notorious like Assange.
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Robᵇᵉᵗᵒ Graham
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Lessons in anti-science: don't believe he evidence, but instead, believe the priest we call "Scientists". I mean, the globe is warming, but your belief in that should be driven by heeding the evidence, not by heeding the scientists.
Another lesson in science is the difference between objective evidence and subjective opinion. That the globe is warming is objective data, such as the satellite record pictured here. Whether this "catastrophic" is a subjective value judgement.
The problem we have with vaccines, climate change, and other issues based on science isn't because THEY reject the science, it's because activists like Neil deGrasse Tyson reject the principles of science, and instead argue the issues using principles other than science.
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