WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will be punished for embarrassing the DC establishment

[Wyatt earp]

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


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Calling Assange a journalist is like calling a drug dealer a retailer

Would you consider him a publisher?

I consider him a fence, a person who deals in stolen merchandise.


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consider him a fence, a person who deals in stolen merchandise.

Apparently, 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?

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Calling Assange a journalist is like calling a drug dealer a retailer


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Calling Assange a journalist is like calling a drug dealer a retailer

Would you consider him a publisher?

I consider him a fence, a person who deals in stolen merchandise.


Sent from my iPhone using USMessageBoard.com

consider him a fence, a person who deals in stolen merchandise.

Apparently, 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".

Why do people keep calling Assange a journalists? A journalists writes stories and tells the news, all Assange does is publish stolen information.

Imho, it's a huge stretch to call Assange a journalist; however, he probably does qualify as a publisher.
Daniel Ellsberg On Assange Arrest: The Beginning of the End For Press Freedom

"April 11, 2019

"This is the first indictment of a journalist and editor or publisher...And if it's successful it will not be the last."

Daniel Ellsberg On Assange Arrest: The Beginning of the End For Press Freedom

I don't think Daniel Ellsberg qualified as a journalist, in fact he was a US military analyst in 1971 when released a top-secret Pentagon study on Vietnam War policy to the New York Times and other papers.

Had it not been for government misconduct, he would have spent the rest of his life in prison for making that information available to the American public.

Daniel Ellsberg - Wikipedia

He is a publisher in the same way that someone who post revenge porn against their Ex a "filmmaker

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Calling Assange a journalist is like calling a drug dealer a retailer


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Calling Assange a journalist is like calling a drug dealer a retailer

Would you consider him a publisher?

I consider him a fence, a person who deals in stolen merchandise.


Sent from my iPhone using USMessageBoard.com

consider him a fence, a person who deals in stolen merchandise.

Apparently, 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?

Yes I do. Though I can honestly admit I have never once watched her, but from what I read about her, she is indeed.

 

[georgephillip]

Would you consider him a publisher?

I consider him a fence, a person who deals in stolen merchandise.


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consider him a fence, a person who deals in stolen merchandise.

Apparently, 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".

Why do people keep calling Assange a journalists? A journalists writes stories and tells the news, all Assange does is publish stolen information.

Imho, it's a huge stretch to call Assange a journalist; however, he probably does qualify as a publisher.
Daniel Ellsberg On Assange Arrest: The Beginning of the End For Press Freedom

"April 11, 2019

"This is the first indictment of a journalist and editor or publisher...And if it's successful it will not be the last."

Daniel Ellsberg On Assange Arrest: The Beginning of the End For Press Freedom

I don't think Daniel Ellsberg qualified as a journalist, in fact he was a US military analyst in 1971 when released a top-secret Pentagon study on Vietnam War policy to the New York Times and other papers.

Had it not been for government misconduct, he would have spent the rest of his life in prison for making that information available to the American public.

Daniel Ellsberg - Wikipedia

He is a publisher in the same way that someone who post revenge porn against their Ex a "filmmaker

He is a publisher in the same way that someone who post revenge porn against their Ex a "filmmaker

Were you upset when Assange published DNC email during the 2016 campaign, and would you have been more upset if he had published emails from Trump's campaign revealing the June, 2016 Trump Tower meeting with a Russian lawyer and Trump's payoffs to a pornographic actress and a former Playboy model?

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Were you upset when Assange published DNC email during the 2016 campaign, and would you have been more upset if he had published emails from Trump's campaign revealing the June, 2016 Trump Tower meeting with a Russian lawyer and Trump's payoffs to a pornographic actress and a former Playboy model?

I have been upset with Assange and Wikileaks for far longer than 2 years. It is like none of you people heard about him till then. He is a scumbag that horded his stolen information and just doled it out whenever he needed some attention.

What took place in 2016 was minor and did not affect my view of him at all.

I fully admit I am biased, I spent a good part of my Marine Corps career keeping classified data safe, and I take this sort of shit very seriously.

If the man died tomorrow I would not feel even the smallest bit of sadness.

 

[georgephillip]

Calling Assange a journalist is like calling a drug dealer a retailer


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Calling Assange a journalist is like calling a drug dealer a retailer

Would you consider him a publisher?

I consider him a fence, a person who deals in stolen merchandise.


Sent from my iPhone using USMessageBoard.com

consider him a fence, a person who deals in stolen merchandise.

Apparently, 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?

So you do agree Maddow is a clown?

If so, she's much smarter than the clown in the White House.

Rachel Maddow - Wikipedia

"She earned a degree in public policy at Stanford in 1994.[20] At graduation, she was awarded the John Gardner Fellowship.[21]She was the recipient of a Rhodes Scholarship and began her postgraduate study in 1995 at Lincoln College, Oxford.

"She had also been awarded a Marshall Scholarship the same year but turned it down in favour of the Rhodes.[22]

"This made her the first openly gay or lesbian American to win an international Rhodes Scholarship.[23] In 2001, she earned a Doctor of Philosophy(DPhil) in politics at the University of Oxford."

 

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[Wyatt earp]

Would you consider him a publisher?

I consider him a fence, a person who deals in stolen merchandise.


Sent from my iPhone using USMessageBoard.com

consider him a fence, a person who deals in stolen merchandise.

Apparently, 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?

So you do agree Maddow is a clown?

If so, she's much smarter than the clown in the White House.

Rachel Maddow - Wikipedia

"She earned a degree in public policy at Stanford in 1994.[20] At graduation, she was awarded the John Gardner Fellowship.[21]She was the recipient of a Rhodes Scholarship and began her postgraduate study in 1995 at Lincoln College, Oxford.

"She had also been awarded a Marshall Scholarship the same year but turned it down in favour of the Rhodes.[22]

"This made her the first openly gay or lesbian American to win an international Rhodes Scholarship.[23] In 2001, she earned a Doctor of Philosophy(DPhil) in politics at the University of Oxford."

Intelligence and wisdom are not the same, learn the difference

 

[georgephillip]

I consider him a fence, a person who deals in stolen merchandise.


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consider him a fence, a person who deals in stolen merchandise.

Apparently, 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?

So you do agree Maddow is a clown?

If so, she's much smarter than the clown in the White House.

Rachel Maddow - Wikipedia

"She earned a degree in public policy at Stanford in 1994.[20] At graduation, she was awarded the John Gardner Fellowship.[21]She was the recipient of a Rhodes Scholarship and began her postgraduate study in 1995 at Lincoln College, Oxford.

"She had also been awarded a Marshall Scholarship the same year but turned it down in favour of the Rhodes.[22]

"This made her the first openly gay or lesbian American to win an international Rhodes Scholarship.[23] In 2001, she earned a Doctor of Philosophy(DPhil) in politics at the University of Oxford."

Intelligence and wisdom are not the same, learn the difference

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Intelligence and wisdom are not the same, learn the difference

In a competition between Maddow and Trump, which one has displayed the greater intelligence AND wisdom. Socrates?

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[the other mike]