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You antagonize every western country and then wonder why they treat you like an enemy. Assange suddenly screams "Wait, you still have to follow the rules!"

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Assange didn't antagonise every western country, he antagonised powerful people in those countries.

I think it's important for our own sanity to recognise that our government and it's intelligence agencies are not us, even though sometimes with will be aligned.

Those rules are in place to protect people like Assange from prosecution. We need whistleblowers to protect from abuse. USA tries to be a world police, but in reality it can't even handle internal policing. American way, lock everyone up and no tolerance.

Assange isn't a whistleblower, he just tries to stir the pot of shit as best as he can. He has well documented anti-american sentiments and publishes his leaks without redacts to cause maximum loss of life and safety to Americans and American allies.

WikiLeaks didn't leak documents without redacting them. They collaborated with multiple newspapers around the world to publish them in the most sensible way possible.

The First Amendment is supposed to protect people with "anti-American" sentiments. After all, you don't need a Constitutional amendment to protect people the government likes. The whole point is to protect people the government wants to shut up.

> to cause maximum loss of life and safety to Americans and American allies.

Assange hoped that he could end the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq by revealing the true nature of those wars. He thought he was saving lives.

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