Julian Assange arrested in London
Very sad day. Remember this all started with the leak of the &quot;Collateral murder&quot; video. That&#x27;s when the Interpol notice went out, and he had to seek asylum at the embassy. It was already quite disgusting how powerful entities were able to seemingly fabricate sexual charges as needed.<p>Later on he made very influential enemies by exposing corruption in the democratic political party. Instead of any follow up on that front, the pressure on Assange increased and the whole Russian scaremongering narrative was pushed. Probably to distract from own potential repercussions.<p>For me that looks a lot like government oppression. Something like that wouldn&#x27;t fly in Germany for example. We had recently had an popular elected political removed from office for something quite insignificant - it was found out, he copy &amp; pasted a few paragraphs in his decade old (and unrelated) doctoral work.<p>It doesn&#x27;t look much different then the cases where Chinese or Russian governments going after journalists