fear won't save you

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We proudly speak about self governance as the pillar of freedom and liberty. We stand against authoritarianism and corrupt states where people can’t openly discuss their government. Democracy, they say.

But I’ve just heard that they've agreed to send Julian Assange to the US for his trial.

He’s the founder of wikileaks and he stands accused of treason by The United States for disseminating confidential state secrets. He spent the last seven years in isolation as a political refugee. The U.S. has now succeeded in extraditing him for a trial of aiding and abetting the enemy.

Randy Colas

Everyone is an enemy to an authoritative regime.

We should care because this is a person on trial for defending civil liberties. He shared information about the government that the public wanted to know… things that have been hidden from us or lied about. For example, videos of the military killing civilians, NSA surveillance, etc.

If this information is in our best interest, why is our government acting independently? Shouldn’t we, as a democracy, be able to choose whether or not we have been harmed before we punish someone? It seems that the only damage here is to the authority and secrecy of governing institutions.

Scott Umstattd

Where did self-governance go? Did I miss a vote?

What kind of message does this send about our government? If you speak out, if you tell people what we are doing, you will be prosecuted, punished, and destroyed.

What information could possibly be worth keeping from its own citizens? If the leaked information might also hurt us, then we need to reconsider our domestic and foreign policies. Edward Snowden said it best, "we can not defend ourselves by appealing to what we are defending against… fear will not save us".

Jose Moreno

In a democracy, no one should have to live in fear of their government.

If anything, please check out Julian’s Wikipedia, it’s quick. You can judge for yourself if you think he deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison or worse.

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Yes sadly it does happen. I look at many phases of the government in the US and wonder where in the world people think, "Yeah, we need more of that." Central planning centrally benefits the insiders.

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Yea, I wish it was only here though... some other places might have it even worse. I think it's just strange that we're so okay with it though.

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I don't think he's bad or deserves to be punished, but the powers that be have spoken.

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Yea, I totally agree. I think the problem arises when the majority of the population feels the same way...
Thanks for checking it out!

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Hey @mastersa,
I checked you account a bit - your posts, VP, RC, incoming delegation and outgoing delegation.
In my opinion, your posts are great and undervalued.
Your VP and RC are much too low so that this keeps you from acting here on steemit.
You can be glad about your incoming delegations, but they still are not enough to keep your VP and RC on an acceptable level. OK, the VP is in your own hands depending on the number of votes you give. But the RC is depending on your SP

I'm also only a small fish here on this platform but I would like to delegate some SP to you so you have more possibilities to write and comment on the platform. I hope you don't mind. If so, please let me know.

STEEM ON!!!

P.S.: I also asked minnowbuster to whitelist you - no matter if you will ever use their service. I think it's always good to be whitelisted where possible ;)

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Wow thank you so much! That’s so generous, I really appreciate it. I actually ran out of resource credits this morning and had to use @giftgiver

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You are really doing great and can expect more support to come - I'm pretty sure about that. I know already that you got the attention of other steemians ;)

Also, it looks like you got the right advises how to get things going here.
I'm always happy to see new good steemians find their way to be successful which is quite hard in the beginning.

It's a long term journey and I'm pretty sure you will make it here ;)

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