Alice Walker, Noam Chomsky, and Daniel Ellsberg defend Julian Assange, 1 hour conversation

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Interesting

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2. Even intelligent people can be woefully misguided.

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3. +++

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4. When Alice Walkers embraced David Icke's anti-Jewish conspiracy theories, she lost her credibility

https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/12/20/18146628/alice-walker-david-icke-anti-semitic-new-york-times

Their defense of Assange is because he is being extradited for the release of Video on the US attack on Iraq. Assange’s indictment by the US is not about the silencing of a whistleblower or a threat to freedom of the press. It is about prosecuting Assange on a specific criminal charge, conspiring to hack into a US government computer.

That these defenders of Assange seem to brush aside his involvement with the Russians, and trump operatives to interfere in the US elections, is sad indeed

They argue the “persecution” of Assange is an assault to journalism. That is only valid if one regards Assange as a journalist, instead of a willing participant in a political agenda

The Mueller report concluded Assange is neither a whistleblower nor a journalist. He is an Australian citizen charged with conspiring to hack into a US government computer, with ample documents that he worked with the support of Russian intelligence to interfere in the American electoral process

WikiLeaks is a service working for actors like Russia to achieve specific political agenda

Mueller established WikiLeaks distributed material from Russian military intelligence’s hack of the Democratic Party and private email account of Hillary Clinton

Unlike Ellsberg who was a whistleblower in a way Assange could’ve never be because Assange is a foreign national who collaborated with Russian intelligence to derail Clinton’s candidacy

The Mueller report showed WikiLeaks communicated both with trump advisors and Russian intelligence, GRU with the intent of election sabotage

No journalist would conspire to hack into the Pentagon’s computer network

From 2015 to 2016 when trump announced his presidential candidacy, Assange did not publish a single document that was negative to Russia or Putin

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5. So sad it's almost pathetic. Assange helped putin help trump get elected.

WTF is wrong with these people?

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6. They are setting up a false equivalency, by only looking at what they want to see

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7. It's so disappointing. I think much less of them all now.

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8. Same here

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9. No. Just no.