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[–]magnora7 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

It seems likely he's been slowly poisoned for a long time now.

It also seems likely however they don't want him dead anytime soon, because then he's a martyr and it would cause a tremendous public reaction.

What's best for the state, I imagine, is that he's kept half-alive and mentally unstable. Then you get no public uprising to his death, but you also get no courtroom testimony of the things they're trying to keep him from saying. Win/win for them.

My guess is that this story will just slowly fade away, and we'll get to a point never really know if he's alive or dead, and there'll be no way to find out. I hope I am wrong about that.

However if they want to create massive protests and unrest, killing Assange would be the way to do it. But I doubt the people who have custody of him want mass public unrest.

Such a weird situation. I hope something good comes out of all this. I hope the dead man switch still exists, and the moment he dies millions of damning documents are automatically released to the whole internet.

The future of journalism and truthtelling itself hinges so much on the example they will set by what they do to Assange.

[–]FormosaOolong[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

I wonder why he doesn't have someone else drop whatever is in the dead man's switch? I'm assuming whoever is implicated in there also knows he has it, but once it was out, how could offing him help them?

Has this whole siege/campaign to smear him and so-called fake news been so that whenever his final "leak" comes out they hope no one will believe it?

It must be REEEEAAALLLLY bad if they've hounded him for this long, on an internationally coordinated basis.

I mean all that crap on Hillary and Podesta etc, plus the CIA stuff, plus the Stratfor stuff, plus the panama papers--and nearly no attention, even less action. He must have some insane goods on some very dark people if they are this afraid of his stash.

[–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I wonder why he doesn't have someone else drop whatever is in the dead man's switch?

Yes I assume this is how it would have to work. That there is some other person watching, entrusted with documents, and the moment he dies they release the data. That's the only setup that would offer protection to Assange.

However I did hear they raided his lawyer's office and seized a lot of stuff. Hopefully the dead man's switch isn't lost from this.

I get the impression the level of stuff he has could potentially split the DNC or something of that magnitude.

[–]FormosaOolong[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I guess I meant at this point, why not drop it while he still breathes?

I gather from his letter though that he really can't communicate freely with anyone. I had hoped that the book he was carrying upon arrest was the secret signal.

[–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I guess I meant at this point, why not drop it while he still breathes?

Because then they can just kill him without any repercussions and almost certainly get away with it.

I don't think he's in communication with anyone anymore. I think the person with the dead man's switch (if it exists, which I hope it does) is just watching the news

[–]FormosaOolong[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I was going to ask what would be the point of killing him once the truth was fully out, but then I remembered all the "suicides" and "accidents" that have happened to people who have exposed heinous crimes.

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Him testifying in a very public court case would draw a lot of attention to the issues. So they don't want him in court nor do they want the dead man's switch to be released. So the optimal thing for them is to just keep him in an ambiguous coma basically. At least that's how I think they're thinking.