Supreme court dismisses Assange appeal bid

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4. It (sadly) really doesn't matter.

TPTB have decided to punish him severely for telling their secrets. There is absolutely no quarter given to any whistle-blower especially in this administration. All of our "sunshine" laws, our right to be informed citizens, these rights (yes they are rights), have been replaced by the governments desire for secrecy at any cost. The "secrets" that Julian Assange exposed only resulted in educating people about the abuses in our government and especially in our military. Cheney exposed an active CIA asset out of revenge and was exalted by the GOP.
Two sets of rules are obvious. Being a whistle-blower should be viewed as a patriotic and brave act. It should be rewarded not punished.
What Cheney did was not whistle-blowing, it was treason. There was no benefit in exposing Valarie as a CIA asset except to silence the truth and punish her husband for having the audacity to attempt to stop a war based on lies.
Face it, we have become a fucked up corptocracy.