Comment by 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.
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.
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.
Well, it was pretty obvious that Stalin was murdering people, so in that case it was fear of the known, instead of fear of the speculated. That fear due to speculation would be what allows the speculated fear to come to pass, is the particular irony I am highlighting.
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...
That's one way to get your username off the FBI's list!
>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.
Wikileaks got its dirt from Russian hackers. They did not do the hacks themselves.
The same Russian hackers who actually hacked both the DNC and RNC, but notably (and impactfully) did not release the RNC data.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2016/12/10/report-russi...
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So people like Assange are useful only when they serve your favorite political party ? Not very objective
I believe he's suggesting that Assange should have released both sets of data, not just one because of his personal vendetta.
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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.