Wyatt earp
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Ellsberg had this to say about how Assange's arrest may play out over the next few months:
Daniel Ellsberg On Assange Arrest: The Beginning of the End For Press Freedom
"It’s a very serious assault on the First Amendment. A clear attempt to rescind the freedom of the press, essentially.
"Up till now we’ve had a dozen or so indictments of sources, of which my prosecution is the very first prosecution of an American for disclosing information to the American public. And that was ended a couple of years later by governmental misconduct.
"There were two others before President Obama, and nine or so under President Obama, of sources, none of these having been tested in the Supreme Court yet as to their relation to the First Amendment. Hasn’t gone to them.
"This is the first indictment of a journalist and editor or publisher, Julian Assange.
"And if it’s successful it will not be the last.
"This is clearly is a part of President Trump’s war on the press, what he calls the enemy of the state. And if he succeeds in putting Julian Assange in prison, where I think he’ll be for life, if he goes there at all, probably the first charge against him is only a few years.
"But that’s probably just the first of many.
"In my own case, my first indictment was for three counts, felony counts. That was later expanded to 12 felony counts by the end of the year, for a possible 115-year sentence. So I think this is a warning shot across the bow of every editor and publisher in the country."
Calling Assange a journalist is like calling a drug dealer a retailer
Sent from my iPhone using USMessageBoard.comWould you consider him a publisher?
I consider him a fence, a person who deals in stolen merchandise.
Sent from my iPhone using USMessageBoard.comApparently, Assange is a difficult person to be around, but he may be more of a sacrificial goat in this particular instance, at least that's Daniel Ellsberg's opinion:
Daniel Ellsberg On Assange Arrest: The Beginning of the End For Press Freedom
"So journalists in general, I think, should rally around this case, whatever they think of Julian himself. There’s a lot of people who don’t like Julian personally. I am not one of those. I do like him.
"There’s a lot of people who are very critical of his actions in the election of 2016, on various grounds. I’m not happy with the result to the extent that it in any way aided President Trump to become president.
"And Trump did, of course, state his love for Julian at one point. He said 'I love WikiLeaks' when it seemed to be helping him.
"But of course a promise of love from Donald Trump is not terribly reliable. We knew that already. So he’s willing to make him the sacrificial goat here, I think, for journalists in general."
Why do people keep calling Assange a journalists? A journalists writes stories and tells the news, all Assange does is publish stolen information.
That is like calling someone who post revenge porn against their Ex a "filmmaker".
So you do agree Maddow is a clown?
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