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    Joe Rogan Backs Julian Assange [while the fragrant Hadley Freeman dumps on him] Archived Message

    Posted by Sinister Burt on September 20, 2020, 12:05 pm

    Joe Rogan, whatever (he's also blaming forest fires on lefties) - more to the point is the bit comparing him to the guardian's assange output - namely hadley freeman's article.

    Novara Disclaimer: Chris Williamson etc (yes i watch novara tyskysour stream for a dose of telly news - i also watch some freeview skynews (as i can't look at the bbc anymore), and it's at least better than that)




    Here's the article:
    https://www.dumptheguardian.com/fashion/2020/sep/09/politicising-and-weaponising-are-becoming-rather-convenient-arguments

    Some excerpts:
    "The interview largely took place, as far as I can gather, in the Japanese Kyoto garden in London’s Holland Park, and Moris described how romance blossomed for her and Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy (Japan, Holland, Ecuador; perhaps Assange is right and we truly live in a world without borders now.) Moris, 37, accompanied by her and Assange’s three-year-old and 19-month-old sons, talked with feeling about Assange’s possible extradition to the US (his extradition hearing began on Monday at the Old Bailey). “Even now I don’t know whether my children will ever be held in their father’s arms again.” To which one struggles not to reply: “Yes, that’s incredibly sad for your children. But it is also not an ENTIRELY unforeseen turn of events, given you conceived them with a man avoiding extradition to Sweden to face one allegation of sexual assault and another of rape.” The rape allegation has since been dropped due “to the long period of time that has elapsed since the events in question,” the Swedish Prosecution Authority said last year. The Swedish deputy director of public prosecution, Eva-Marie Persson, added: “I would like to emphasise that the injured party has submitted a credible and reliable version of events.

    ...

    "Disagreements are styled in such a black-and-white fashion these days: I am good, therefore anyone questioning me is bad. Are people really this absolutist, or are they just disingenuously pretending to be so in order to avoid awkward questions? Maybe both. But there does seem to be a general fear of ambiguity, or just a resistance to acknowledge grey areas. So with Assange, it is – on the one hand (you need many hands when discussing Assange) – absurd that he might get 175 years in a US prison for the charges that have been lobbed against him. On the other hand, he ducked two serious sexual assault allegations. And the US horror show does not cancel out the Swedish one." [the injustice cancels out apparently so it's ok]

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