NP: I won't even go into espionage charges except to say I believe in the rule of international law

[Mark Kohut]

When they've got you giving the least right enough answers, they've got you
lost.---the lost Aphorism of TRP...

This says nothing about the danger to democracy in the US.....

On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 4:47 PM Thomas Eckhardt <
huebschraeuber at protonmail.com> wrote:

> True. As far as I can tell, we are beyond the "democracy is
> threatened"-scenario. Our new government here in Germany has announced a
> foreign policy based on "values". I am sure they will be very vocal
> about human rights violations in Belarus or China. And rightfully so. I
> am also sure that there will not be a peep about Julian Assange.
>
> Everything is subordinated to geopolitical objectives aka the objectives
> of Empire. Frank Zappa once memorably stated:
>
> “The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to
> continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too
> expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will
> pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the
> way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”
>
> The Assange affair is part of moving the tables and chairs out of the way.
>
>
> Am 13.12.2021 um 21:28 schrieb Arthur Fuller:
> > This is quite simple, legally speaking: a publisher by definition cannot
> > be held responsible for espionage, simply for revealing information
> > previously leaked. If you do not accept that, then democracy is
> > threatened. End of story.
>
>