{"id":76297,"date":"2024-06-25T07:51:23","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T06:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=76297"},"modified":"2024-06-25T07:51:23","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T06:51:23","slug":"assanges-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/06\/25\/assanges-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Assange&#8217;s release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I admit that I have never been Julian Assange's greatest fan. I met him once, and decided that I could not deal with him. Something made me uneasy, and on occasion, you have to act on instinct.<\/p>\n<p>That said, his treatment by governments in the UK, US and maybe elsewhere, has been utterly inappropriate. So, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/article\/2024\/jun\/25\/julian-assange-plea-deal-with-us-free-to-return-australia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I welcome his effective release today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But I would still not handle the materials he leaked because I am not convinced he helped his cause by doing what he did.<\/p>\n<p>We need a free press. We need the right to question. Most of all, we need an effective fourth estate. Democracy cannot exist without that.<\/p>\n<p>But I am not sure by how much he advanced that cause and that is why I have never been persuaded that his judgement was worth trusting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I admit that I have never been Julian Assange&#8217;s greatest fan. I met him once, and decided that I could not deal with him. Something<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/06\/25\/assanges-release\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76298,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76297\/revisions\/76298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}