Julian Assange Freed Under US Plea Deal: A New Chapter for WikiLeaks Founder

[impulse]

3 minutes ago, KhunBENQ said:

Your jokes are getting a bit worn out.

 

I appreciate the heads up, but are they jokes?

 

Last month, Yahoo News reported CIA officials had drawn up options for former U.S. President Donald Trump's administration for dealing with Assange while he was holed up in the Ecuadorean embassy in London, including assassinating or kidnapping him.

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/allegation-cia-murder-plot-is-game-changer-assange-extradition-hearing-fiancee-2021-10-25/

 

Election year politics may have seen him released.  But that doesn't mean he is safe.

 

[Purdey]

This is great news for press freedom and human rights. Like others, I am sceptical that the US will let him go once he is in their hands. Just in case anyone doesn't remember what he did, here is the video of an American helicopter killing civilians.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/video/multimedia/1248069533084/collateral-murder.html

 

[BobBKK]

GOOD NEWS  one of the few brave enough to expose the USA's disgraceful actions worldwide.

[BobBKK]

5 hours ago, Tug said:

Hopefully someone catches up to this traitor soon 

 Disgraceful comment on a brave hero exposing a corrupt USA government.

[Gaccha]

43 minutes ago, RayC said:

a shame that Assange won't now have to face trial for his alleged sexual crimes in Sweden.

 

You sweet summer child.

 

The CIA has a long and innoble history of smearing targets with sex crime accusations.

[Robert Paulson]

This is what a victory for the people often looks like: guy does nothing wrong, rots for 15 years and a lesson is taught to all other journalists to never tell the truth, and he finally gets out and who knows what on earth can happen to him now, but yeah… huge “victory”. 

[LosLobo]

50 minutes ago, impulse said:

 

It's a shame nobody of his ilk is in Camp David right now, watching them coach Joe with the actual questions, given to him in advance by CNN.

 

But I digress... 

 

Still, I fear for Assange's safety.  He must have a heck of a dead man switch to have survived this long.

 

Surely ' I digress' should have been before your intro......

[CallumWK]

2 hours ago, Gaccha said:

Gloriously, Thailand will play a small part in this rare glimmer of good news: 

 

 

After been locked up for 5 years, everyone looks forward to a pitstop at Nana

[herfiehandbag]

5 hours ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

My motto, stay safe and under the radar at all times, mind your own business and enjoy life, it's too short to be spent locked up. 

Pretty sure that Assange won't do that!

 

He makes "Sheldon Cooper" look modest, shy and retiring!

[CallumWK]

6 hours ago, Tug said:

Hopefully someone catches up to this traitor soon 

 

Now that he's free he will have time to release the Big Guy papers

[thaibeachlovers]

6 hours ago, Social Media said:

Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, has been released from a British prison following a plea deal with US authorities that concludes his long-running legal saga. Assange, 52, faced charges of conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defense information due to his role in releasing classified documents related to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

To be precise that is what is expected, but as he hasn't actually arrived in Saipan ( he's in Bangkok, on his way there ) he's not actually free till the documents have been signed. I'd say he's not free till he arrives in Australia.

[thaibeachlovers]

8 minutes ago, CallumWK said:

 

After been locked up for 5 years, everyone looks forward to a pitstop at Nana

He's in Bangkok, so perhaps.................. I'd buy him a drink if I met him there. He's a good guy in a bad world.

[johng]

10 minutes ago, CallumWK said:

 

Now that he's free he will have time to release the Big Guy papers

Lets hope so.

[RayC]

17 minutes ago, Gaccha said:

 

You sweet summer child.

 

The CIA has a long and innoble history of smearing targets with sex crime accusations.

 

Oh for the days when conspiracy theorists were relatively thin on the ground.

 

Quick, look behind you😱

[Chomper Higgot]

A plea deal comes together with a proffer.

 

Assange doesn’t simply get to admit guilt, he needs to confess the extent of his crimes and, importantly, give up coconspirators.

 

[Gaccha]

10 minutes ago, RayC said:

Oh for the days when conspiracy theorists were relatively thin on the ground.

 

The CIA and American elite have a long and innoble history of smearing antagonists as "conspiracy theorists". 

[Robert Paulson]

1 hour ago, RayC said:

It's a shame that Assange won't now have to face trial for his alleged sexual crimes in Sweden.

Right. And it conveneintly never gets brought up that these charges just disappeared. Funny how that all works

[RayC]

5 minutes ago, Robert Paulson said:

Right. And it conveneintly never gets brought up that these charges just disappeared. Funny how that all works

 

The charges didn't just disappear. Two of the charges were dropped because of the (Swedish) stature of limitations had expired. The rape charge was dropped because " ... the evidence has weakened considerably due to the long period of time that has elapsed since the events in question ... (Ms Persson - Deputy Director of Public Prosecution) ... emphasised that the injured party has submitted a credible and reliable version of events".

 

Have a read of this. The section entitled 'Conspiracy Theories' might be of particular interest.

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assange_v_Swedish_Prosecution_Authority

[Liverpool Lou]

7 hours ago, Tug said:

Hopefully someone catches up to this traitor soon 

How is he a "traitor" to Australia?

[RayC]

46 minutes ago, Gaccha said:

 

The CIA and American elite have a long and innoble history of smearing antagonists as "conspiracy theorists". 

 

And the Swedish state has a long and enviable reputation for its' lack of corruption and transparency.

[Liverpool Lou]

2 hours ago, RayC said:

It's a shame that Assange won't now have to face trial for his alleged sexual crimes in Sweden.

You mean those charges that were dropped years ago?

[Liverpool Lou]

34 minutes ago, Robert Paulson said:

Right. And it conveneintly never gets brought up that these charges just disappeared. Funny how that all works

They didn't "disappear", they were dropped, officially, years ago, by the prosecutor due to weak evidence.

[RayC]

42 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

You mean those charges that were dropped years ago?

 

36 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

They didn't "disappear", they were dropped, officially, years ago, by the prosecutor due to weak evidence.

 

Not quite as simple as that. The evidence has "weakened" due to the long delay in pursuing the cases, in part due to Assange's unwillingness to cooperate.

 

https://www.npr.org/2019/11/19/780743412/swedish-prosecutor-ends-investigation-into-julian-assange-over-rape-claims

[riclag]

2 hours ago, CallumWK said:

 

Now that he's free he will have time to release the Big Guy papers

Whats the terminology when they have the goods and they know they might get in an unforeseen deadly accident, and then the goods become exposed for the whole world to see?

What ever its called ,I hope he has that

special arraignment with a trusted attorney!

 

methinks

[UWEB]

8 hours ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

Now free to go back to Oz but wasted away the best years of his life. 

 

My motto, stay safe and under the radar at all times, mind your own business and enjoy life, it's too short to be spent locked up. 

 

 

Wikileaks is his business

[SAFETY FIRST]

9 hours ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

Now free to go back to Oz but wasted away the best years of his life. 

My motto, stay safe and under the radar at all times, mind your own business and enjoy life, it's too short to be spent locked up. 

He's got the right idea. 

 

Once you get out, after being imprisoned, head straight to Pattaya. 🍺

 

[SAFETY FIRST]

45 minutes ago, UWEB said:

Wikileaks is his business

And!!!! 

[Brewster67]

Finally someone saw sense. I guess the press will be thronging in their thousands to get a glimpse of him and paying through the nose for interviews while for 12 years they ignored him and hid in the shadows while this one true journalist was persecuted.

 

There won't be a real journo among the lot of them and Julian will stand alone as a man that told the truth and revealed the crimes of the true criminals... Being the USA and their terrorist military.

[Captain Flack]

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[Gaccha]

He's already departed Bangkok! Bon Voyage.