<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Kelly Anderson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kellycoinguy@gmail.com" target="_blank">kellycoinguy@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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</div>Army Pfc. Bradley Manning swore an oath to protect his countries<br>
secrets, then violated that oath.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>No, he swore an oath to defend the Constitution. Opinions will vary on whether he violated that oath, but there's little doubt that he broke broke laws or disobeyed orders.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Assange himself is not guilty of treason in the sense that he has not<br>
personally committed an offense against the country of his birth.<br>
Nevertheless, he is guilty of promoting and enabling treason.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yeah, much in the same way that anyone who isn't Muslim is a heretic in the eyes of an Islamic government.</div><div> </div>
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Similarly, while the people who founded AshleyMadison.com aren't<br>
themselves guilty of adultery, they have certainly promoted and<br>
enabled adultery.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>So what? Is promoting or enabling adultery illegal? </div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
The charge against Assange isn't so much "playing with people's<br>
lives", but making all of civilization less safe by outing secrets<br>
that might well be more safely kept behind closed doors.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>"Making all of civilization less safe" is a bit of a stretch.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">But it is also very clear that</div>
he has ruined at least one life so far, that of Army Pfc. Bradley<br>
Manning.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>No, as Spike correctly pointed out, Manning apparently did what he did voluntarily and aware of the consequences. You might consider it "ruining his life", but he might consider it the best thing he could have done.</div>
<div><br></div><div>-Dave</div></div>