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minus-squareHACKthePRISONS@kolektiva.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·8 months ago>Any suffering he had was his own doing. no. this is a problem of government overreach.
minus-squareRapidcreek@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down9·8 months agoSo now it’s over reach to prosecute or even investigate people who brake the law.
minus-squareHACKthePRISONS@kolektiva.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up6·8 months agoit’s overreach to create a false pretext for a war. it’s overreach to murder journalists. it’s overreach to cover it up. and it’s overreach to prosecute the journalists who expose it.
minus-squareRapidcreek@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down7·8 months agoIt’s not false, it’s the law. Geeeez
minus-squareHACKthePRISONS@kolektiva.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·8 months agothis is incoherent with what i said.
minus-squareHACKthePRISONS@kolektiva.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·8 months agoif the law says what assange did was wrong, the law is wrong. free people have a duty regarding unjust laws.
minus-squareRapidcreek@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down10·8 months agoThe law is wrong? Famous last words by many a criminal.
minus-squareHACKthePRISONS@kolektiva.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·8 months agosince there have been laws there have been criminals.
minus-squareRapidcreek@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down6·8 months agoYou’ve got that backwards
minus-squareHACKthePRISONS@kolektiva.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·8 months agono, laws make criminals.
minus-squareRapidcreek@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down5·8 months agoThat’s not the way civilization developed. People do bad things, villages make rules that you can’t do that bad thing so it doesn’t happen again.
minus-squareHACKthePRISONS@kolektiva.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down2·8 months agolaws don’t stop crime. they create it.
>Any suffering he had was his own doing.
no. this is a problem of government overreach.
So now it’s over reach to prosecute or even investigate people who brake the law.
it’s overreach to create a false pretext for a war. it’s overreach to murder journalists. it’s overreach to cover it up. and it’s overreach to prosecute the journalists who expose it.
It’s not false, it’s the law. Geeeez
this is incoherent with what i said.
if the law says what assange did was wrong, the law is wrong.
free people have a duty regarding unjust laws.
The law is wrong? Famous last words by many a criminal.
since there have been laws there have been criminals.
You’ve got that backwards
no, laws make criminals.
That’s not the way civilization developed. People do bad things, villages make rules that you can’t do that bad thing so it doesn’t happen again.
laws don’t stop crime. they create it.