Wow. When I was in Sydney I was surprised at how many protests around there were about Julian Assange... didn't really understand why they cared about him or the US. Guess that worked?
It's pretty similar to the US claiming jurisdiction over Ukrainians running torrent websites from Ukraine. Or over random Afghanis who share their first name (something extremely unique like Omar or Abdul or Mohamed) with a supposed terrorist, enough to kidnap to torture them.
Any decent American patriot, anyone with any love for America and its people and its reputation, would want it to not be committing heinous war crimes.
The people who committed treason are the ones who dragged us into multiple illegal wars based on fabricated evidence.
Those war criminal fucks cost us trillions and trillions of dollars, and are responsible for milllions of deaths. Assange tried to prevent that, and has paid a terrible price for doing so.
The first link is a motion spoken to independent Andrew Wilkie acknowledging supporters of Assange. The CNN article talks about the governments bid to have all charges dropped (they were not, he had to plead guilty on espionage).
Despite Mr. Albanese (the prime minister)'s election promise to bring Assange home, he's officially refused[0] to talk to Biden about it and has never answered questions on what they're doing about it.
It is great he's finally coming home, but forcing a journalist to plead guilty of espionage falsely, the decade of harassment and false imprisonment, the fake rape case... This should not be treated as "job done".
He refused it. Two years later, the Educadorian embassy kicked him out because they were tired of him smearing his shit all over the walls and assaulting female staff.
...and tell me again how it's more plausible that both Swedish prosecutors and the Swedish criminal court system up to and including their supreme court conspired with the US to fake an entire case around Assange sexually assaulting two women. And then the UK government joined in that conspiracy. And then Ecuador joined in that conspiracy?
Or...and bear with me here for a second...he's a misogynistic asshole who has so little respect for women he treats them as sexual objects?
0. https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Hansard/Hansar...
1. https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/10/politics/biden-assange-au...