Re: Edward Snowden Says Assange 'Could Be Next' After John McAfee Suicide

> > support of total transparency of evidence logged into the public record >> for all to see forever -- including, say, child pornography? >> > > That's a silly thing to mention, but yes. We need to know what is true, > very badly. It's also clearly helpful if pedophiles can get arousal from > o

Re: Edward Snowden Says Assange 'Could Be Next' After John McAfee Suicide

Hi David, Our conversations are getting a little long and I have some trouble guiding my hands ... are you able to trim the quotes down some when replying? On Sun, Jun 27, 2021, 8:10 PM David Barrett wrote: > On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 4:47 PM Karl wrote: > >> Ok that's encouraging, I agree we sh

Re: Edward Snowden Says Assange 'Could Be Next' After John McAfee Suicide

On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 4:47 PM Karl wrote: > Ok that's encouraging, I agree we shouldn't give up on what we've got! >> >> What I'm not quite following, however, is that you seem to be agreeing >> that the court system is *so broken* that the rest of the world should stop >> extraditions to us --

Re: Edward Snowden Says Assange 'Could Be Next' After John McAfee Suicide

> *existence* ... blame the courts Just like Jury Nullification (of laws), refusing to serve fund military killing people, refusing vaccines, tax, any other form of personal protest, etc... people have the total inviolable individual right to utterly refuse to do anything, that anyone else, or any

Re: Edward Snowden Says Assange 'Could Be Next' After John McAfee Suicide

On Fri, Jun 25, 2021, 7:20 PM David Barrett wrote: > On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 4:00 PM Karl wrote: > >> >> >> On Fri, Jun 25, 2021, 6:40 PM David Barrett >> wrote: >> >>> Maybe just skipping ahead a few steps before getting pulled into a >>> debate about the US government, do you agree with the c

Re: Edward Snowden Says Assange 'Could Be Next' After John McAfee Suicide

On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 4:00 PM Karl wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 25, 2021, 6:40 PM David Barrett > wrote: > >> Maybe just skipping ahead a few steps before getting pulled into a debate >> about the US government, do you agree with the concept of representative >> democracy involving different branc

Re: Edward Snowden Says Assange 'Could Be Next' After John McAfee Suicide

On Fri, Jun 25, 2021, 6:40 PM David Barrett wrote: > Maybe just skipping ahead a few steps before getting pulled into a debate > about the US government, do you agree with the concept of representative > democracy involving different branches with checks and balances being a > philosophically str

Re: Edward Snowden Says Assange 'Could Be Next' After John McAfee Suicide

Maybe just skipping ahead a few steps before getting pulled into a debate about the US government, do you agree with the concept of representative democracy involving different branches with checks and balances being a philosophically strong foundation for governance? Is your complaint that the US

Re: Edward Snowden Says Assange 'Could Be Next' After John McAfee Suicide

The problem with whistleblowing is that whatever was going on wrongly, it was almost certainly happening in order to make somebody powerful actually be far more powerful, whether directly or indirectly. There's likely huge incentivisation to pull far more strings to suppress problems. Like the ki

Re: Edward Snowden Says Assange 'Could Be Next' After John McAfee Suicide

That's a legal defense, right? And you use a legal defense in court, correct? And he's refusing to show up in court? How is that the court's fault -- what would you ask the court to do, exonerate him without at trial? How is that a better form of justice? -david On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 1:13 P

Re: Edward Snowden Says Assange 'Could Be Next' After John McAfee Suicide

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistleblower_Protection_Act The *Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989*, 5 U.S.C. 2302(b)(8)-(9), Pub.L. 101-12 as amended, is a United States federal law that protects federal whistleblowers who work for the governme

Re: Edward Snowden Says Assange 'Could Be Next' After John McAfee Suicide

This kind of an obvious question, but what specifically does Snowden think is unfair about our courts? Evading taxes, leaking confidential national security information -- I think it's totally reasonable to challenge the legitimacy and ethics of these laws. But it's hard to challenge the *existen

Edward Snowden Says Assange 'Could Be Next' After John McAfee Suicide

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