Reply #74: Espionage? Again, you need to read, or just the Judiciary hearings

[sabrina 1]

from yesterday. There is no hope in hell that Assange will be charged with espionage, nor Manning for that matter. They are desperately trying, but that idea was pretty much shot down yesterday. So, they are attempting to write new legislation to fit what Wikileaks does, the only problem with that is that what Wikileaks does is journalism. So those ideas were also shot down.

The GV are clear. If a detainee is being treated inhumanely by a country, that country is in violation of the law.

Sad the lengths you go to defend torture and the violations of the treaties this country is signed on to.

Assange is now a very high profile, Global hero. The rabid reaction of this government to what Wikileaks does, and has been doing for four years to other countries, MADE him a hero. The U.S. is now universally reviled as a rogue state for its use of torture and inhumane treatment of detainees and its refusal to apply the rule of law to torturers and murderers. World opinion matters. Many of the governments now friendly to the U.S. are more than likely to fall in their next elections, with Iceland leading the way.

It's time for this country to reverse the course it was put on by the Bush gang or become a pariah as it already is in South America and now spreading across the rest of the globe.

Anyone who cares one bit about this country will do all in their power to stop the freefall we are now in. Prosecuting Assange is a lost cause. They need to prosecute the criminals exposed in the leaks in order to regain some respect around the world.