Far From Heroes How, Wikileaks Is At Least In The Same Class of Criminals As Those Who Worked For The Nixon Campaign, Prosecute Them

With his latest attack on Hillary Clinton's campaign, and so American democracy, in favor of the fascist strong-man, Donald Trump, I'm willing to now say that Julian Assange and his organization are organized criminals.   I think it's high time for the Ecuadorian government to expel him from its embassy or to risk being considered complicit in his espionage against American democracy.   Though you have to wonder what kind of blackmail he would practice against the Ecuadorians - what he's doing now is certainly blackmail.

I think it is time for the FBI to give us more details about its investigation into the hack against the Democratic National Committee and to verify if Hillary Clinton, herself or if other people or entities associated with her have been hacked.   If the Putin government or some other entities are involved, it's important to know who they are.   It's one thing for domestic billionaires to be trying to ratfuck American elections, if an Aussie punk like Assange can - perhaps at the behest or or in the interest of foreign governments or other agencies - that is as serious a crime against democracy as voter suppression, intimidation or rigging the election.

I think there should be a category of both domestic and international crime called crime against democracy, against the right of a free, fair and honest election being held in any given place and it should be considered one of the most serious of crimes, investigated and prosecuted with full vigor. This is far more serious than whether or not the sleaze went back on his agreement to use a condom or broke one on purpose, this is him screwing us into a fascist as president of the United States.  

After having written against his arrest on what he was accused of in Sweden, I would now support both the  extradition of Julian Assange to the United States and his prosecution.   I would support any group of hackers who he was associated with being investigated and prosecuted for any crimes that could be proven in court.   With what they've done in the past month, I have no problem with anyone considering Wikileaks to be a criminal organization with an obvious political agenda that is hostile to American democracy.  

There is a real danger to democracy from groups like this, depending on how they act.  Hacking isn't some moral good, in itself.   Julian Assange obviously thinks there's something in it for him to have  a fascist strongman, idiot like Donald Trump as president of the United States, I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't think he could get a pardon out of it.  Perhaps he believes that in doing a service to the Putin regime he could get them to influence a President Trump who owes hundreds of millions to their crime family .   Or maybe it's one egomaniacal egotist seeing someone like him in Donald Trump.  Or maybe he just wants to cause the United States to be weakened through having an ignorant, amoral lunatic as president.   I don't much care what his motives are, none of them could possibly be good.   

I think with this it is high time for the Democratic Party to find other ways of communicating than online media.  It can't be considered secure.  I also think it's way past time that people realize that unless all communication is encrypted at the highest possible level, they should expect to get hacked.   I've heard that people and media organizations are antsy about criticizing Assange or Wikileaks because they fear having their e-mails or other online communications hacked by them.  That's a rational fear but it is no reason to allow them to wreck one of the most crucial elections in American history on behalf of the worst candidate a major party has nominated in our lifetime.  I would put Trump as more dangerous than George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan and Thomas Dewey on that list.  He is a total catastrophe, so dangerous that he even scares some of those who participated in past horrific Republican administrations.   I think it's becoming clearer that he is a real Manchurian Candidate. Only they wouldn't have to use more than the delicate cycle to brainwash Trump.   We need to figure out what his presidency would get for Julian Assange.