I’ve changed my mind on Julian Assange.
Years ago, I bought the line that he was a traitor to America: by releasing details of American troops activities. So I was anti-Assange.
I was wrong.
Turns out that there were war crimes. That there was no endangerment of innocents. That what Assange did, in releasing documents to prove the misdeeds, was a service to fairness and decency in the world.
Yet now the British government is being asked to send him to the United States, for “crimes” that are not even crimes in Britain. To face 175 years in prison.
It’s wrong. Free Assange!
