so the sweedes have decided to drop the charges. so the only thing left is thew american charge. well this is not new, it happened 300 years ago almost in an identicle situation. i wonder if the jury now will be as sphisticated as then? or have the yanks been breeding sheepriots.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47874728
Almost 300 years ago, the foundations for American protections of the free press were laid in the trial of John Peter Zenger. The case has striking similarities to the pending prosecution of the Wikileaks founder. In the case, the recently installed British governor William Cosby was the subject of an anonymous pamphlet that detailed his many abusive and corrupt practices in New York and New Jersey, from stealing Indian lands to pilfering the Treasury to rigging elections.
Cosby ordered four editions of the Zenger's New York Weekly Journal publicly burned and arrested Zenger. He then installed a biased judge who held Zenger's defence lawyer in contempt. Despite using every means to punish Zenger for what Cosby called "scandalous, virulent, false and seditious reflections", the colonial jurors balked and acquitted him.
now this will be very interesting.