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Here's the plan. We form a large enough mob of people who are dressed to look exactly like Assange (wigs and all), then he can just run into the mob and dispers

Here's the plan. We form a large enough mob of people who are dressed to look exactly like Assange (wigs and all), then he can just run into the mob and disperse, make contact with sympathizers, and flee to a less oppressive country.

jacquesm 8y ago
I think you'll find it much harder to find enough Assange sympathizers to pull this off than it was a few years ago. He's been working pretty hard to reduce his - and WikiLeaks - image over the last couple of years. Personally I think that by now he should get it over with and walk out, be arrested, do the time for skipping bail and then he can put his extradition theory to the test. The current political leadership in the USA is about as pro Assange as it is ever going to get.
- culot 8y ago
  > He's been working pretty hard to reduce his His opponents -- ie: the entire western MSM apparatus -- have been working harder at that, and certainly done much more damage to Wikileaks than Assange could ever manage. Though I don't see how he's damaged the image of Wikileaks or himself much in the last couple of years. With Wikileaks' good works around the 2016 US elections you'd think would have won them plenty of goodwiil -- exposing the sham that is the US electoral system directly from the mouths of its brightest and most powerful. That's where the immense, ongoing smear via Western MSM outlets comes in though, I suppose. > walk out, be arrested, do the time Definitely, just do it. It's easy for us to say, but imagine how terrifying that must be for him: who knows whose dungeon he'll end up in, but that he'll be effectively neutralized in his efficacy in regards to Wikileaks permanently is almost certain -- at the very least!
- zzzcpan 8y ago
  If your enemy is a state actor, playing by its rules can only guarantee the worst possible outcome. You would be lucky if you end up in prison for life. Because "suicide" is also a very real possibility.
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tonysdg 8y ago
Isn't that basically what they did in Atomic Blonde with the crowd and the umbrellas?
- avs733 8y ago
  Yes but real police are generally superior to movie police. They are also a much better shot than crime movies would lead you to believe.
  - zzzcpan 8y ago
    Police is also generally useless if a crowd is not willing to let someone get arrested, especially a public figure. For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUQ_zw_vUrU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUQ_zw_vUrU

jacquesm 8y ago

I think you'll find it much harder to find enough Assange sympathizers to pull this off than it was a few years ago. He's been working pretty hard to reduce his - and WikiLeaks - image over the last couple of years. Personally I think that by now he should get it over with and walk out, be arrested, do the time for skipping bail and then he can put his extradition theory to the test. The current political leadership in the USA is about as pro Assange as it is ever going to get.

culot 8y ago
> He's been working pretty hard to reduce his His opponents -- ie: the entire western MSM apparatus -- have been working harder at that, and certainly done much more damage to Wikileaks than Assange could ever manage. Though I don't see how he's damaged the image of Wikileaks or himself much in the last couple of years. With Wikileaks' good works around the 2016 US elections you'd think would have won them plenty of goodwiil -- exposing the sham that is the US electoral system directly from the mouths of its brightest and most powerful. That's where the immense, ongoing smear via Western MSM outlets comes in though, I suppose. > walk out, be arrested, do the time Definitely, just do it. It's easy for us to say, but imagine how terrifying that must be for him: who knows whose dungeon he'll end up in, but that he'll be effectively neutralized in his efficacy in regards to Wikileaks permanently is almost certain -- at the very least!
zzzcpan 8y ago
If your enemy is a state actor, playing by its rules can only guarantee the worst possible outcome. You would be lucky if you end up in prison for life. Because "suicide" is also a very real possibility.
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tonysdg 8y ago

Isn't that basically what they did in Atomic Blonde with the crowd and the umbrellas?

avs733 8y ago
Yes but real police are generally superior to movie police. They are also a much better shot than crime movies would lead you to believe.
- zzzcpan 8y ago
  Police is also generally useless if a crowd is not willing to let someone get arrested, especially a public figure. For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUQ_zw_vUrU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUQ_zw_vUrU