Julian Assange is a free man. That is not a thing many people thought they would ever say. This has to be admitted. Although through his long imprisonment many hoped and worked to get him free, this will set a precedent in history I think, as a victory for human rights and civil liberties. I was just thinking that the image many people saw of Julian being carried out of the Ecuadorian embassy with two books clutched in his hand, that image looks different now that he’s free. As far as what the public at large saw, the story led from that image to the plea entered on Saipan where he said that he believed the Espionage Act and the First Amendment were still in contradiction with one another. And it shows or should show, Julian’s bravery throughout this process.
All I can add, is that through it all, Julian stayed ever the intellectual in the broadest sense of the term.
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