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colliric" wrote:Assange stays in the UK
ingliz wrote:
For now. The US is expected to appeal.
late wrote:years
ingliz wrote:
Years that will be spent in Belmarsh.
Assange was denied bail this afternoon.
Zagadka wrote:What they dream of is another Trump...
late wrote:
I don't have a position vis a vis Assange. The smart move would prob be to forget about him. But, I don't much care that he is in prison, either.
late wrote:
Sign of the times, they don't trust us, and with good reason.
Extradition is often a tricky and difficult process, this may be as good a result as could be expected.
I have no illusions here, he was a Russian pawn, but at the same time, he threw some light in some dark places.
We like to think of ourselves as something special. But the grim reality of empire keeps reminding us of the truth.
ckaihatsu wrote:
A 'Russian pawn' -- ?
How so, exactly?
Aren't you diminishing the importance of his own activism with this kind of slur?
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