Julian Assange to plea guilty, released from UK prison

[Quickseller]

It was announced today that Julian Assange to set to plea guilty to a single count of conspiring to obtain and distribute classified information and is to be sentenced to time served, which is 68 months that he has served in a UK prison (where he was awaiting extradition, that he was fighting).

Once he is sentenced, he is set to be allowed to return to Australia, which is his homeland.

On one hand, it is very common for journalists to disclose government secrets, even embarrassing secrets (see the Pentagon papers, etc.). One the other hand, he has spent over 5 years in jail, in addition to the time he was hiding in the Ecuadorean embassy in the UK, and some may argue that accepting a time-served sentence to put the ordeal behind him.

What do you think?

[be.open]

It was announced today that Julian Assange to set to plea guilty to a single count of conspiring to obtain and distribute classified information and is to be sentenced to time served, which is 68 months that he has served in a UK prison (where he was awaiting extradition, that he was fighting).

Once he is sentenced, he is set to be allowed to return to Australia, which is his homeland.

On one hand, it is very common for journalists to disclose government secrets, even embarrassing secrets (see the Pentagon papers, etc.). One the other hand, he has spent over 5 years in jail, in addition to the time he was hiding in the Ecuadorean embassy in the UK, and some may argue that accepting a time-served sentence to put the ordeal behind him.

What do you think?

Congratulations to Assange on his release. In times of universal lies, telling the truth is extremism.

[Quickseller]

Congratulations to Assange on his release. In times of universal lies, telling the truth is extremism.

If memory serves me correctly, some of the information he released had little/no journalist value and did put American lives at risk. I think it would have been better if he had exercised some editorial discretion, and not released information that met both of this criteria. It is certainly better that we became aware of most of the information he released though.

[PhillipDe78]

Finally, the shameful story of "justice" is over.

[DeathAngel]

This is great news, he has been unfairly treated for a long time. I personally don’t think he should ever have been chased by the law in the first place. Now the next hope is that Ross Ulbricht is pardoned, comparable or even worse supposed crimes by both men usually receive much less harsh treatment

[Hispo]

I heard about the news and I thought he was going a
through a process of plea deal for him to be sentenced in the United Kingdom but still he was supposed to continue to serve time in prison. I am glad to know he is going to get time served and he will be able to return to Australia. Though, I would be careful before declaring victory and believing this is an everkasted happy ending for this man hose only crime was to tell the truth about what the governments of the world are doing.
The United States still considers him to be a criminal and possibly a threat for their national security, hence, they will continue to chase him even in other countries, to spy on him to mess with his internet connections in order to keep a track on him. In the worst case scenario, They would literally try to assassinate him while he is visiting his native Australia, it would not thefirst time a superpower orders the extrajudicial killing of someone who happens to be a bother...

[Majestic-milf]

 Well, what can I say? Julian has waited for the law to take due action and find him guiltless but it seems he'd have to grow very old for that to happen and had no other choice but to cut a deal. I'm happy for him that at least he's now a free man but he had to give up his documents stating the wrongdoings of the US in their conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq? What a huge price to pay for freedom, if you ask me.
 Honestly this act shows how flawed the justice system in the US is. They know that if those documents get released, many people the world over will see how corrupt they are, exposing their pretentious generous nature towards warring countries for what they really are.

[Bright0515]

Before now Julian Assange was contradicted by the U S government for recruiting hackers. The founder of WikiLeaks was arrested on 11April 2019 and was contradicted with so many charges and could have faced a 175 years imprisonment but has been granted bail early today and has flew his helicopter back to his country with tears in his eyes after pleaded not guilty, what a day of luck for Assange.

There was a conspiracy by the US government as they fear Assange could break into their system and computers. From my own view they never wanted anything that would cause war between them and the Iranians. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/what-did-julian-assange-do-wikileaks-most-significant-document-dumps/#:~:text=Julian%20Assange%20founded%20the%20WikiLeaks,large%20corporations%20and%20personal%20emails.

[paxmao]

It was announced today that Julian Assange to set to plea guilty to a single count of conspiring to obtain and distribute classified information and is to be sentenced to time served, which is 68 months that he has served in a UK prison (where he was awaiting extradition, that he was fighting).

Once he is sentenced, he is set to be allowed to return to Australia, which is his homeland.

On one hand, it is very common for journalists to disclose government secrets, even embarrassing secrets (see the Pentagon papers, etc.). One the other hand, he has spent over 5 years in jail, in addition to the time he was hiding in the Ecuadorean embassy in the UK, and some may argue that accepting a time-served sentence to put the ordeal behind him.

What do you think?

Congratulations to Assange on his release. In times of universal lies, telling the truth is extremism.

Why do I have the feeling that you only want some of the "truths" to be known?  It is great that Assange is freed, but I wonder how many truth tellers fly out of windows or get, for example, poisoned with novochick or get some other similar treatment in Siberian prisons. It feels like you are fine with freedom, as long as it is convenient for your own purposes.

[MarvinHagler]

The way the US government (both democrats and republicans) went after Assange and essentially destroyed his life is nothing short of a disgrace.

[OgNasty]

It’s pretty awesome publicity for Bitcoin that Assange was able to see his family again thanks to the generosity of an anonymous Bitcoin donor. I think a lot of people will read that today. Pretty good publicity if you ask me. I’d say you can buy that sort of exposure but it looks like someone just did. Happy for Assange and his family.

[Hispo]

The way the US government (both democrats and republicans) went after Assange and essentially destroyed his life is nothing short of a disgrace.

It is easy to expect such a thing to happen, actually, when comes to certain things, like the management of intelligence and keeping secrets, both Republicans and Democrats are pretty much equally paranoid and vicious. It is one of the reasons some people call those Politicians to be part of the Uniparty.
I still recall when Edward Snowden exposed to the world how the United States and its allies intended to control the information of the planet and massively surveil all the people on the internet. I recall Obama was upset about it and also those in the opposite side.

If both Obama and someone like Trump can agree on something, then you know the Uniparty could be more real than one initially assumes it to be.

[Quickseller]

It’s pretty awesome publicity for Bitcoin that Assange was able to see his family again thanks to the generosity of an anonymous Bitcoin donor. I think a lot of people will read that today. Pretty good publicity if you ask me. I’d say you can buy that sort of exposure but it looks like someone just did. Happy for Assange and his family.

What happened that Assange was able to see his family via money paid for in bitcoin anonymously? (The Australian government fronted Assange the money for his flight home)