I watched the "Four Corners," program last night
(29/07/2019) on Julian Assange - and thought
that he'd be a good topic for discussion on this
forum

It seems that he's being aggressively pursued by
the Trump Administration. Mr Trump famously
declared "I love WikiLeaks" during the 2016
election campaign as WikiLeaks began rolling out
a series of leaks damaging to Hillary Clinton.

Mr Assange is an Australian citizen and is now charged
with 17 counts of espionage and 1 count of hacking
and he faces a possible 175 years if he's extradited to
the US and found guilty.

The Obama Administration did look at the possiblity
of charging Mr Assange but decided that a prosecution
under the Espionage Act would be too problematic.
That it might open the door for journalists and
The New York Times to be charged.

What do posters think? Should Mr Assange be charged?
And Why? Why not?

Dear Foxy,

I think the guys from Monty Python would sum him up best by saying 'He's a naughty naughty boy!'

We must not forget he let us see American military might murdering civilians
We needed to see that
He should never be sent to America,unless Trump is in the dock with him
Yet I think the man in helping Trump, lost his near worship by some,including me
Let him go but to protect investigative journalist all over the world, no other reason

"JULIAN ASSANGE - HERO OR VILLAIN?"

Embrace the healing power of "AND".

He is charged with rape. Its more than interesting how the left manages to utterly ignore their own 'rules' when it suits. In the age of 'believe-all-women', suddenly when a leftish man is in the firing line, that rule no longer applies.

In the end he was in Ecuador's embassy to avoid having to face his Swedish 'victims'.

"The Obama Administration did look at the possiblity
of charging Mr Assange but decided that a prosecution
under the Espionage Act would be too problematic."

Well 4 Corners never said that, mainly because its rubbish. Assange sat in the embassy for the entire 2nd Obama term because he was (he says) fearful of being sent back to face trial by that administration. I understand that the whole 'story' these days is about Trump's pursuit of poor Julian but let's not totally ignore the facts.

Of course, if I was Assange I'd be totally terrified of ending up somewhere where the Clintons could get access to him. People who have the goods on the Clintons have been known to be 'suicided' with regularity. Latest example, Epstein.

So for poor Julian, a British gaol seems like the safest place to be right now

If we 'believe all women' then he is a rapist. Personally I don't know.

mhaze,

The rape charges were withdrawn. The women who accused
him of rape were found to be lying. One of them even gave
a party for him after the supposed rape. The prosecution
found that there was not enough evidence to charge him back
then and the charges were dropped. Today, Sweden has not
yet decided whether it will re-open the case. It will be
interesting to see if they do and who gets the first
crack at Assange - Sweden of the US?

Also, will Australia do anything for an Australian citizen?
Can they do anything?