Congratulations on the largest raise through a DAO and getting the funds to where they can do the most for Julian.

ETH16,593 has made a tremendous strategic difference to Julian’s defense. It may well have saved Julian’ s life. It will certainly have dealt a blow to the morale of his persecutors. The US government and its allies have spared no expense to incarcerate and hound Julian, and the war against him has also been one of resource attrition. Thanks to all of you, Julian is armoured up against the legal attack against him, but there is still this range of things to do, across politics, tech, media, social media, etc- much remains to be done!

The value of AssangeDAO lies not just in its fundraising capacity but in the community of talent, the combined knowledge, network and intellectual output that can concentrate on a single clear set goal: securing Julian’s freedom.

Advisory Council, Assange Family Participation in AssangeDAO Future.

The endorsement of Julian and his family in AssangeDAO and the use of the Assange name has contributed to the success of AssangeDAO, the participation of many of the high profile contributors and given AssangeDAO legitimacy in the face of copy cat and skam DAO’s

Julians family are 100% committed to freeing Julian and if AssangeDAO follows its original mission, then we and Julian are 100% behind it. If AssangeDAO choses another mission the family needs to continue its work to free Julian undistracted.

This is not just any DAO. A mans life and freedom hangs in the balance, that is why those closest to Julian, his family and lawyers, need to be able to make sure that AssangeDAO proposals do not put his life or defense at risk.

Based on the original governance structure, Julians Family and Lawyer are the backstop that prevents bad actors from taking over AssangeDAO. With the $JUSTICE token available on the market it would be very simple for the forces that are against Julian to buy up the token have a majority vote on any proposals. Without the involvement of those closest to Julian it is almost certain that the DAO will be taken over by the CIA or other bad actors who wish to change the AssangeDAOs mission to their own purpose.

Julian has many ideas for projects for AssangeDAO, including potential future NFTs. The success of the Pak collaboration came as a result of months of preparation and careful thought behind the scenes. The result has been an extraordinary success, and there is much potential in future projects of which there are many.

Inflection point for Noble Cause Philanthropy

AssangeDAO has ushered in a new paradigm of fund raising and crypto philanthropy. The combination of Julian Assanges name a DAO structure and a blue-chip NFT collection catapulted AssangeDAO to another level where it was able to make world wide headlines and attract many well known and reputable supporters(Snowden, Kim Dot Com, Sam Bankman-Fried, Vitalik). Your $JUSTICE token is not only power to vote, but also a badge of honor, a proof of philanthropy that you were here when AssangeDAO made history.

AssangeDAO has re-defined the value of joining forces to fight for a cause, value that in past was locked up, only available to big business or high net worth individuals Is now open to the smallest of contributors through the $JUSTICE token. Over time as more success is accrued by AssangeDAO the proof of philanthropy($JUSTIC) will be even more important for holder to prove they were here at the beginning.

Caution on infighting and politics

A united DAO is a strong DAO. If AssangeDAO falls into political infighting and division there will be a disincentive for smart and capable people to join the DAO as anything that strays from the AssangeDAO core mission is seen as time consuming waste of personal time and resources. This also goes for Julians family, who are fighitng this battle on many fronts.

In the next days we will be holding a twitter space. Stay tuned.

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If it is truly such a concern, then why not just use the proceeds of the auction, to buy up the shares and let people exit the DAO?

Julian’s family are 100% committed to freeing Julian and if AssangeDAO follows its original mission, then we and Julian are 100% behind it. If AssangeDAO choses another mission the family needs to continue its work to free Julian undistracted. [quote=“GabrielShipton, post:1, topic:529”]

Does this imply that you propose to have the DAO try more NFT fundraising on behalf of assange, as the mission of the DAO, and that a proposal for generating legal technology for freeing other prisoners of conscious or for civil rights, would necessarily have to exclude your participation?

The task of DAO can be to publicize assange’s deeds and the legal document NFT issued by the authorities, which can be fairly publicized from a judicial perspective.Maybe you think using DAO to raise money is the most important thing to save Assange, but in fact, Dao can do a lot of things. Minting every legal document into NFT to record the judicial judgment, Dao can also launch a crypto circle movement to speak for Assange, and everyone can record a sentence to Assange. Assange case needs judicial justice, Our purpose is to call on everyone to supervise and pay attention to justice

I believe that even if this issue takes 10 years to resolve, that the amount that has been raised will amount to more than $5 million per year of burn rate. In my mind that should be sufficient for the legal battles ahead, and you shouldn’t need more money at this point.

You should state the specific things that should be done, so that the community can assess the proposal itself, because in my mind the “independence of the judiciary” precludes anything other than the legal system from having any effect. There are many contentious legal battles in this country every year, and the one common thread is the perception that they will be judged in a court of law not in the court of public opinion, otherwise there wont be the perception of trust and fairness in the legal system.

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Assange’s case represents an injustice. We can give a voice to others like Assange. It doesn’t mean it’s not about saving Assange, it’s about the spirit of Assange

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Our ultimate goal is to wait for assange to be released, but we need to promote assange’s spirit of fairness and transparency along the way. Everything we do is to support justice and actively promote this spirit. I don’t think this is in conflict with freeing Assange

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If think blindly pursue money, I don’t think this is the most important to rescue him, the most important thing is to make the world pay attention to his case itself, to understand his contribution, to treat his attitude, and judicial justice of right and wrong need to do the public to discuss the evaluation, not 500 MB or 1 B $ can be solved.I can understand your concern that someone will make an unfavorable proposal against Assange, but you also need to trust the proposal team’s respect for Assange. If the existence of one person with absolute veto power is not conducive to DAO’s development, the proposal review team will not approve any unfavorable proposal against Assange.

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The perception that money buys justice, is already one that erodes confidence in our system. However it is sad but true, that the state typically has more resources available than the defense, and that the best lawyers charge the most. However I believe there is a practical limit, for example O.J. Simpson spent $10 million on his defense, regarding the death of Nicole Simpson.

I am disappointed that you have made such a statement at this time, which I feel is a clear indication that you want to take control of the top leadership of Dao and its future direction (of course, this is clearly not a single idea of your family, but some people around you have put it forward for you. You have become nothing but their tools, and the instruments of their future struggle for power.

$50 million is more than a thank you and a badge of honor. Everyone donated so much money to help Assange is on the one hand, more or value the Dao. As the Assange family, I hope that you will not be deceived and become tools of some people. You need to actually contribute to the Dao. Because Dao’s strength and Assange’s interests are fundamentally aligned. Let’s hope assange’s family knows that. Again, the Assange family needs to be alert to those around them who want to use your family’s voice to gain power over the Dao.

We have donated so much money to the foundation to save Assange, but you are asking us to continue to raise money to save Assange, so why do we donate to the foundation, instead of using the Treasury funds to do it ourselves? From the moment you asked for the full bid, you had no consideration for DAO’s development

We have donated so much money to the foundation to save Assange, but you are asking us to continue to raise money to save Assange, so why do we donate to the foundation, instead of using the Treasury funds to do it ourselves? From the moment you asked for the full bid, you had no consideration for DAO’s development

The full bid was required, because that is what was communicated on the website (in English, I don’t know what was written in Chinese), however if the Assange family wanted the DAO to retain funds for its operation, there is nothing stopping them from doing so.

I hope that the Assange family can graciously accept the donation we provided them, and allow us to be their patron rather than require us to be their client, and rather than restrain us as an organization provide resources for us to pursue justice.

I do not see any future in being a part of an organization meant to sell procedurally generated art auctions, I want to be a part of an organization that provides people with access to justice by using technology to augment the legacy justice system.

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