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Julian Assange - UN Rules in His Favour? - David Guyatt - 09-02-2016
It is a terrible, terrible indictment about the forlorn and hopeless state of the British media that none of them are taking Cameron and Co., to task over their stand on Assange on this issue. The British state's fear of American reprisal is palpable.
Julian Assange - UN Rules in His Favour? - Albert Doyle - 09-02-2016
There is no separation between state and media in the west any more. Communism and terrorism has allowed an "all or none" ethic to install itself. (Fascism)
If the founding fathers of America could appear in today's age and press their cause they would literally be attacked and destroyed by the present day Homeland Security counter-terrorism apparatus as a threat to the current government.
Julian Assange - UN Rules in His Favour? - Albert Doyle - 06-01-2017
Just saw a scary piece on CNN where a Delaware rep was saying Assange was an enemy of the US and should be treated as such and that he put Americans in danger.
That same rep also said Trump should be careful criticizing US Intel, like something bad could happen to him. It was scary the way he said it.
Julian Assange - UN Rules in His Favour? - Peter Lemkin - 19-05-2017
The Swedish Prosecutors have JUST dropped all charges against Assange!....however, British Police say they will still arrest him if he leaves the Embassy!...stay tuned.
Julian Assange - UN Rules in His Favour? - Carsten Wiethoff - 19-05-2017
http://news.met.police.uk/news/statement-on-julian-assange-242877
Following today's decision by the Director of Public Prosecution, Ms Marianne Ny, in relation to the Swedish authorities investigation into Julian Assange the Metropolitan Police Service's position is:
Westminster Magistrates' Court issued a warrant for the arrest of Julian Assange following him failing to surrender to the court on the 29 June 2012. The Metropolitan Police Service is obliged to execute that warrant should he leave the Embassy.
Whilst Mr Assange was wanted on a European Arrest Warrant (EAW) for an extremely serious offence, the MPS response reflected the serious nature of that crime. Now that the situation has changed and the Swedish authorities have discontinued their investigation into that matter, Mr Assange remains wanted for a much less serious offence. The MPS will provide a level of resourcing which is proportionate to that offence.
The MPS will not comment further on the operational plan.
The priority for the MPS must continue to be arresting those who are currently wanted in the Capital in connection with serious violent or sexual offences for the protection of Londoners.
Julian Assange - UN Rules in His Favour? - Peter Lemkin - 19-05-2017
Carsten Wiethoff Wrote:http://news.met.police.uk/news/statement-on-julian-assange-242877
Following today's decision by the Director of Public Prosecution, Ms Marianne Ny, in relation to the Swedish authorities investigation into Julian Assange the Metropolitan Police Service's position is:
Westminster Magistrates' Court issued a warrant for the arrest of Julian Assange following him failing to surrender to the court on the 29 June 2012. The Metropolitan Police Service is obliged to execute that warrant should he leave the Embassy.
Whilst Mr Assange was wanted on a European Arrest Warrant (EAW) for an extremely serious offence, the MPS response reflected the serious nature of that crime. Now that the situation has changed and the Swedish authorities have discontinued their investigation into that matter, Mr Assange remains wanted for a much less serious offence. The MPS will provide a level of resourcing which is proportionate to that offence.
The MPS will not comment further on the operational plan.
The priority for the MPS must continue to be arresting those who are currently wanted in the Capital in connection with serious violent or sexual offences for the protection of Londoners.
Assange is NOT wanted for any violent nor sexual offences - only not appearing in court [as he sought and received political asylum]. I'd be willing to bet the number of police outside the Embassy will remain the same. The Brits are in on the US's secret plans to get Assange and see him rot in the U.S. Gulag - if not be executed for 'espionage'. The UK stopped the use of the death penalty in 1965. The US has never ended the death penalty for certain crimes, including 'espionage'. On that basis alone, the UK should refuse to extradite Assange to the US, but they have refused to agree to that or to say if they hold a deportation request from the US. The horrible secret entanglements between the UK and US are obscene and are entanglements between each's secret/deep governmental structures.
Julian Assange - UN Rules in His Favour? - Peter Lemkin - 03-02-2019
Julian Assange - UN Rules in His Favour? - Peter Lemkin - 04-02-2019
Julian Assange - UN Rules in His Favour? - Peter Lemkin - 11-04-2019
About three hours ago, Julian Assange was arrested and led out of the Embassy. The Embassy now ruled by a right-wing American client government withdrew his asylum moments before. They had notified the police who were waiting and making sure Assange could not escape. I fear for the worst in the long run. For now he will rot in a U.K. prison...but will soon be extradited to the USA as the head of a terrorist organization. Only Wikileaks unresolved complication with Trump's campaign may in some unknown save him...but I strongly doubt it. He looked very old and frail when arrested and was obviously fighting with all of his might not to be pushed into a waiting police van by about ten police and plainclothes officers. Justice is rarely done anywhere nowadays. This likely will result in his facing the death penalty in the USA without his home country lifting a finger. Shame on all involved.
Julian Assange - UN Rules in His Favour? - Peter Lemkin - 14-04-2019
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[TD]The glimpse of Julian Assange being dragged from the Ecuadorean embassy in London is an emblem of the times. Might against right. Muscle against the law. Indecency against courage. Six policemen manhandled a sick journalist, his eyes wincing against his first natural light in almost seven years.
That this outrage happened in the heart of London, in the land of Magna Carta, ought to shame and anger all who fear for "democratic" societies. Assange is a political refugee protected by international law, the recipient of asylum under a strict covenant to which Britain is a signatory. The United Nations made this clear in the legal ruling of its Working Party on Arbitrary Detention.
But to hell with that. Let the thugs go in. Directed by the quasi fascists in Trump's Washington, in league with Ecuador's Lenin Moreno, a Latin American Judas and liar seeking to disguise his rancid regime, the British elite abandoned its last imperial myth: that of fairness and justice.
Imagine Tony Blair dragged from his multi-million pound Georgian home in Connaught Square, London, in handcuffs, for onward dispatch to the dock in The Hague. By the standard of Nuremberg, Blair's "paramount crime" is the deaths of a million Iraqis. Assange's crime is journalism: holding the rapacious to account, exposing their lies and empowering people all over the world with truth.
The shocking arrest of Assange carries a warning for all who, as Oscar Wilde wrote, "sow the seeds of discontent [without which] there would be no advance towards civilisation". The warning is explicit towards journalists. What happened to the founder and editor of WikiLeaks can happen to you on a newspaper, you in a TV studio, you on radio, you running a podcast.
Assange's principal media tormentor, the Guardian, a collaborator with the secret state, displayed its nervousness this week with an editorial that scaled new weasel heights. The Guardian has exploited the work of Assange and WikiLeaks in what its previous editor called "the greatest scoop of the last 30 years". The paper creamed off WikiLeaks' revelations and claimed the accolades and riches that came with them.
With not a penny going to Julian Assange or to WikiLeaks, a hyped Guardian book led to a lucrative Hollywood movie. The book's authors, Luke Harding and David Leigh, turned on their source, abused him and disclosed the secret password Assange had given the paper in confidence, which was designed to protect a digital file containing leaked US embassy cables.
With Assange now trapped in the Ecuadorean embassy, Harding joined the police outside and gloated on his blog that "Scotland Yard may get the last laugh". The Guardian has since published a series of falsehoods about Assange, not least a discredited claim that a group of Russians and Trump's man, Paul Manafort, had visited Assange in the embassy. The meetings never happened; it was fake.
But the tone has now changed. "The Assange case is a morally tangled web," the paper opined. "He (Assange) believes in publishing things that should not be published.... But he has always shone a light on things that should never have been hidden."
These "things" are the truth about the homicidal way America conducts its colonial wars, the lies of the British Foreign Office in its denial of rights to vulnerable people, such as the Chagos Islanders, the expose of Hillary Clinton as a backer and beneficiary of jihadism in the Middle East, the detailed description of American ambassadors of how the governments in Syria and Venezuela might be overthrown, and much more. It all available on the WikiLeaks site.
The Guardian is understandably nervous. Secret policemen have already visited the newspaper and demanded and got the ritual destruction of a hard drive. On this, the paper has form. In 1983, a Foreign Office clerk, Sarah Tisdall, leaked British Government documents showing when American cruise nuclear weapons would arrive in Europe. The Guardian was showered with praise.
When a court order demanded to know the source, instead of the editor going to prison on a fundamental principle of protecting a source, Tisdall was betrayed, prosecuted and served six months.
If Assange is extradited to America for publishing what the Guardian calls truthful "things", what is to stop the current editor, Katherine Viner, following him, or the previous editor, Alan Rusbridger, or the prolific propagandist Luke Harding?
What is to stop the editors of the New York Times and the Washington Post, who also published morsels of the truth that originated with WikiLeaks, and the editor of El Pais in Spain, and Der Spiegel in Germany and the Sydney Morning Herald in Australia. The list is long.
David McCraw, lead lawyer of the New York Times, wrote: "I think the prosecution [of Assange] would be a very, very bad precedent for publishers... from everything I know, he's sort of in a classic publisher's position and the law would have a very hard time distinguishing between the New York Times and WilLeaks."
Even if journalists who published WikiLeaks' leaks are not summoned by an American grand jury, the intimidation of Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning will be enough. Real journalism is being criminalised by thugs in plain sight. Dissent has become an indulgence.
In Australia, the current America-besotted government is prosecuting two whistle-blowers who revealed that Canberra's spooks bugged the cabinet meetings of the new government of East Timor for the express purpose of cheating the tiny, impoverished nation out of its proper share of the oil and gas resources in the Timor Sea. Their trial will be held in secret. The Australian prime minister, Scott Morrison, is infamous for his part in setting up concentration camps for refugees on the Pacific islands of Nauru and Manus, where children self harm and suicide. In 2014, Morrison proposed mass detention camps for 30,000 people.
Real journalism is the enemy of these disgraces. A decade ago, the Ministry of Defence in London produced a secret document which described the "principal threats" to public order as threefold: terrorists, Russian spies and investigative journalists. The latter was designated the major threat.
The document was duly leaked to WikiLeaks, which published it. "We had no choice," Assange told me. "It's very simple. People have a right to know and a right to question and challenge power. That's true democracy."
What if Assange and Manning and others in their wake - if there are others - are silenced and "the right to know and question and challenge" is taken away?
In the 1970s, I met Leni Reifenstahl, close friend of Adolf Hitler, whose films helped cast the Nazi spell over Germany.
She told me that the message in her films, the propaganda, was dependent not on "orders from above" but on what she called the "submissive void" of the public.
"Did this submissive void include the liberal, educated bourgeoisie?" I asked her.
"Of course," she said, "especially the intelligentsia.... When people no longer ask serious questions, they are submissive and malleable. Anything can happen."
And did.
The rest, she might have added, is history.
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