"Not a journalist," chants the mob, unwittingly lobbying for the rights to speak and publish to be afforded only to a class of corporate media businesses consecrated by the state. It doesn't matter if Assange is a hobo on a soapbox: the First Amendment protects everyone equally.
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"But her emails," demands the partisan. "Russia!" The charges against Assange have nothing to do with either. As even
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"Fine, whatever — I just don't like the bastard," admits another, "Assange deserves to suffer." The arbitrary punishment of those unlike you for the crime of being unlike you is the very heart of the fascism you claim to oppose. Free societies are founded on tolerance.
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And we criticize Russia
and china 
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True, so true, but what to do about it?
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Criminal.
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It felt weird to even want to like that statement to agree.
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he self imprisoned himself. He isnt being jailed by anyone yet
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