<story><title>Key witness in Assange case jailed after admitting to lies and crime spree</title><url>https://stundin.is/grein/14117/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nimbius</author><text>If i were to describe the Assange case in a word, it would be myopic.&lt;p&gt;once again the US has decided this is the hill it will die on.  instead of reforming intelligence agencies, challenging the doctrine of mass surveillance, revisiting the manifest destiny of imperialist foreign policy, or even considering the cost to do &lt;i&gt;nothing&lt;/i&gt; at all, the US has arrived at the conclusion that a witch hunt is the best hunt.&lt;p&gt;prosecuting and jailing Assange does absolutely nothing to stop Wikileaks or wilileaks-&amp;gt;next().  Whatever effort the US spent to slander and discredit Assange does nothing to stop people inspired by him, or motivated by US foreign policy in countries that do not enjoy its favour.  The US seems completely oblivious to the fact that whatever happens to Assange the journalist, it simply isnt enough to curtail the overwhelming cacophony of demand for free and open journalism across the internet.&lt;p&gt;Just let the guy go and focus the money, time, and effort on preventing this in the future.  nearly every major news outlet and journalist all see Assange as a journalist, not a hacker.  
.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lazide</author><text>I don’t know - I’m quite sure a number of wannabe Assanges have decided to have other hobbies after seeing what has been done to him. It’s making an example.&lt;p&gt;He doesn’t have to actually be in jail for his life to be clearly ruined, and that’s has definitely been done. He has no real freedom, has essentially no real relationships anymore, and is a political toy batted around between nations with the future promise of jail ‘maybe’ in his future, but with no closure.&lt;p&gt;Sounds like hell to me.&lt;p&gt;And all those other things sound great to me, Joe random taxpayer, but probably sound pretty terrible to the folks inside the establishment. Have to keep the money flowing or all that work to get the pension goes up in smoke (and that’s assuming they aren’t smuggling drugs and taking a cut or whatever on the side)</text></comment>
<story><title>Key witness in Assange case jailed after admitting to lies and crime spree</title><url>https://stundin.is/grein/14117/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nimbius</author><text>If i were to describe the Assange case in a word, it would be myopic.&lt;p&gt;once again the US has decided this is the hill it will die on.  instead of reforming intelligence agencies, challenging the doctrine of mass surveillance, revisiting the manifest destiny of imperialist foreign policy, or even considering the cost to do &lt;i&gt;nothing&lt;/i&gt; at all, the US has arrived at the conclusion that a witch hunt is the best hunt.&lt;p&gt;prosecuting and jailing Assange does absolutely nothing to stop Wikileaks or wilileaks-&amp;gt;next().  Whatever effort the US spent to slander and discredit Assange does nothing to stop people inspired by him, or motivated by US foreign policy in countries that do not enjoy its favour.  The US seems completely oblivious to the fact that whatever happens to Assange the journalist, it simply isnt enough to curtail the overwhelming cacophony of demand for free and open journalism across the internet.&lt;p&gt;Just let the guy go and focus the money, time, and effort on preventing this in the future.  nearly every major news outlet and journalist all see Assange as a journalist, not a hacker.  
.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>93po</author><text>I feel like the mentality going after Assange so hard is that if they successfully throw him in prison it helps prove to establishment people that, no, Assange is the criminal, and establishment is doing nothing wrong. See, he&amp;#x27;s in prison. Only wrong people go to prison.</text></comment>