Meet-up 17:00 today 20Feb2024 is the Assange rally - anyone going? (Plaza de Mayo)

[StatusNomadicus]

anyone follow the Julian Assange stuff?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1759619697643835536

just curious if anyone is going to the 17:00 meet-up. rally? whatever you call it. 17:00-20:30 today (Tuesday)

if you're not following, Julian Assange has been wrongfully imprisoned, convicted of no crimes, and held captive because he reported on illegal/unconstitutional USA wars when he was with Wikileaks. his story is similar to that of Edward Snowden, although Snowden attempted to get to Ecuador before his passport was blocked by the CIA in-transit through Russia.

Greenwald:

The Kafkaesque Imprisonment of Julian Assange Exposes U.S. Myths About Freedom and Tyranny

The real measure of how free is a society is not how its mainstream, well-behaved ruling class servants are treated, but the fate of its actual dissidents.

greenwald.substack.com

Chomsky:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1759719213592203409

 

[Simongutler]

It looks like it's going to be a good event but I didn't hear anything about it... if I had heard the information on the weekend I would have been able to organize to go.

 

[StatusNomadicus]

I didn't hear anything about it

i didn't see it until last night, when there was a list with "Buenos Aires" shown on it, but looks like it's been planned since 25Jan:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1750569398275031128

 

[StatusNomadicus]

looks like it wasn't very popular:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1760126492028137720

 

[MikeRoss]

It wasn't popular. I'd say Snowden and Assange were two totally different types of people. Assange sounds like he went off the deep end towards the end.

 

[StatusNomadicus]

Snowden and Assange were two totally different types of people. Assange sounds like he went off the deep end towards the end.

based on what?

Snowden, on WikiLeaks/Assange:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1063520583789539328

Assange has been locked-up for almost 5 years, and is now in poor health. maybe his captors want him to seem "deep end" so they can extradite him?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1732380842562040176

Assange's publication of illegal murdering in Iraq helped stop the Iraq Invasion early.

Snowden's release to Glenn Greenwald caused the NSA and Obama to revoke executive spying powers on people in the USA.

both are anti-war and anti-censorship, using different publication methods. but certainly, their truth is treason in an empire of lies.

 

[Che Vos]

I think both men very much helped human cause and bad things the government is doing around the world!