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cbabe

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6. One last thought to clarify:

Reply to cbabe (Original post)

Thu Dec 30, 2021, 03:37 PM

Dec 2021

If Assange is a political prisoner, he should be released just like HK prisoners.

If Assange is imprisoned as a journalist, he should be freed.

See Maria Ressa/rapper.com and Nobel laureate for example of a journalist with a viewpoint under continual legal threat.

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US Sec of State Blinken calling for Hong Kong to free [View all] cbabe Dec 2021 OP

I agree with Blinker. Beakybird Dec 2021 #1

Proof? cbabe Dec 2021 #2

When Sean Hannity temporarily lost his Twitter account... Beakybird Dec 2021 #3

So Noam Chomsky and others have it all wrong? cbabe Dec 2021 #4

Yes, like everyone else, he's not right about everything. Beakybird Dec 2021 #5

One last thought to clarify: cbabe Dec 2021 #6