America’s Kristallnacht?
The fate of Julian Assange is the fate of one man, but it is also the fate of one of our most important freedoms. There won’t be shattered plate glass from vandalized businesses littering the streets, synagogues smashed, graves unearthed, or people herded onto trains. But his prosecution by the US government would destroy an inestimable value, one enshrined in the First Amendment, for which generations of Americans have fought and died: the right of the people and its press to inform the people and to hold their government to account.
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Ruby Ridge and Waco come to mind.
People are relinquishing their rights now. Wait until the next big emergency, maybe a dirty bomb that causes radiation sickness in a one- block radius. People will be even more eager to increase gov't powers, even powers unrelated to the attack.
A prosecution of Assange would be an assassination of truth and justice no matter if Assange is independent, backed or owned by Russia or some other entity. He has exposed wrong doing and has done it in a non-biased manner.
The Tommy Robinson's and Julian Assange's should be defended regardless of what they are saying.