Julian Assange is not a US citizen and the crimes he is accused of did not happen on US soil. The US should not be the world police. Why are we trying to prosecute him?

[–] MindSkipperBro12@lemmy.world 24 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Because we’re the world police.

And the police should free him.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

we’re the world police.

And ACAB applies to governments too.

[–] eatham@aussie.zone 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What is acab

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

All cops are bastards

[–] Norgur@kbin.social 8 points 8 months ago

Agreed. If you're not a citizen of a country and are not living in that country, why should you follow that countries laws and be obligated to keep that countrie's secrets? That would be like prosecuting the journalists who published the Snowden documents in the UK. They never had anything to do with your laws, USA, so kindly fuck off, will ya?

[–] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What part of that comment or the original post was mentioning the US specifically?

[–] Buttons@programming.dev 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I just wanted to give a little recap of the Julian Assange controversy. The US is trying to prosecute him for breaking US law while outside the US and he is not a US citizen. In case people don't know the story, that's the most important part.

[–] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

Yeah, that makes sense. Also I might've misread your comment before replying, sorry.