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Comment by demarq

5 years ago

Just the other day I asked people on here if they are afraid of commenting on Assange on HN incase the FBI break down their doors.

to my astonishment quite a few were convinced this is exactly what happens. TF?

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luckylion  5 years ago

Why wouldn't they be? Assange is an enemy of the state. Not "of the administration", but "the state", in total. The FBI is known to keep lists on and engage in attacks against what they perceive as enemies of the state. It's logical to assume that they might still do so.

They probably won't break down your door for commenting on Assange though. They'll have some other pretense, an anonymous tip about drugs maybe.

  • whatshisface  5 years ago

    There are probably too many people commenting about Assange for them to do that, although ironically if enough people assume without evidence that they'll get swatted for talking about assange, then that will no longer be true.

    • luckylion  5 years ago

      That's true, but that's true for any and all issues of that kind, isn't it? Had everyone under Stalin stood up to him, nobody would've been murdered in the Gulags.

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  • pmarreck  5 years ago

    Assange being an enemy of the state is sufficient proof for me that Trump is not as dangerous as the left says he is.

    I mean, Assange basically had 2 nukes, one with Clinton's name on it and one with Trump's name on it and released only the Clinton one because he had personal beef with her. This likely resulted in Trump's election.

    Until that election, I was a Wikileaks fan. Now, I think Assange can go f* himself in prison for the rest of his life. What he did is almost unforgivable.

    https://theintercept.com/2017/11/15/wikileaks-julian-assange...

    • fwklein  5 years ago

      >Assange basically had 2 nukes, one with Clinton's name on it and one with Trump's name on it and released only the Clinton one because he had personal beef with her.

      What are you talking about? There's no source that Assange or WL had any information on Trump, which they held back.

      Your cited article only writes about the twitter DMs, in which the WL account asked Trump Jr. to leak his fathers tax returns. It doesn't mean they ever posessed them.

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    • encom  5 years ago

      If there was any real dirt on Trump, it would have been released by now. All we've gotten is pathetic stuff, like the 'grab them by the pussy' nothing-burger, which is only marginally more offensive than Trump eating his steak well done.

      Trump is about to get four more years. If you have dirt on him, there's no better time than now to make it public.