26-04-2019, 03:42 AM
Maybe I'm missing something---isn't living for 8 years inside the Ecuadorian Embassy (without access to sunlight or any freedom of movement) an "extreme lifestyle"? If that's not an extreme lifestyle, then what is?
This posting recounts the situation of Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers. But I believe I saw somewhere that the Pentagon actually put the Pentagon Papers together so that they would be leaked. That was because they wanted a "limited hangout" of the dirty laundry regarding Vietnam.
This Assange situation seems like it has been drawn out for no apparent reason. Since Assange has not been accused of any crimes which might lead to his execution, then wouldn't he take his chances and be just as happy in a medium security prison in either Sweden or the US (rather than the Ecuadorian Embassy)? Either way, he's effectively in prison.
Since all this has been going on in the UK, it seems like the UK spy apparatus has been the most duplicitous of all the spy agencies, the CIA and the KGB included. The word always was (among international negotiators) that the UK officials would be smiling and laughing with you while at the same time they pushed you over the cliff.
Churchill was secretly going to Moscow to meet with Stalin behind the back of FDR. And the "Russia-gate" scandal is full of UK collaboration with the renegade FBI people who spied on (or sabotaged) both US political party campaigns for their own selfish ends in 2016.
All this leads back to Assange, and the question of what will happen to him? If he is extradited to the US, there is no way he can be secretly tried and executed for espionage. Failing that, the US National Security State would not want Assange talking to anybody, especially not talking publicly or on the social media platform.
You have to expect a "brokered deal" of silence on the part of Assange in return for leniency (maybe even probation). The National Security State may let him off with 6 months in jail, then tell we "citizen/idiots" that Assange has provided invaluable secret information on the Russians, Chinese, Ukrainians, etc. etc. etc. And of course, that secret information can't ever be disclosed.
Look for Assange to wind up living out a retirement at a cushy location, maybe in the US or Switzerland. It looks like Assange holds all the cards. And like the JFK case, we folks in the American public will either be the last to know (or never to know the real facts at all), i.e. never.
James Lateer
This posting recounts the situation of Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers. But I believe I saw somewhere that the Pentagon actually put the Pentagon Papers together so that they would be leaked. That was because they wanted a "limited hangout" of the dirty laundry regarding Vietnam.
This Assange situation seems like it has been drawn out for no apparent reason. Since Assange has not been accused of any crimes which might lead to his execution, then wouldn't he take his chances and be just as happy in a medium security prison in either Sweden or the US (rather than the Ecuadorian Embassy)? Either way, he's effectively in prison.
Since all this has been going on in the UK, it seems like the UK spy apparatus has been the most duplicitous of all the spy agencies, the CIA and the KGB included. The word always was (among international negotiators) that the UK officials would be smiling and laughing with you while at the same time they pushed you over the cliff.
Churchill was secretly going to Moscow to meet with Stalin behind the back of FDR. And the "Russia-gate" scandal is full of UK collaboration with the renegade FBI people who spied on (or sabotaged) both US political party campaigns for their own selfish ends in 2016.
All this leads back to Assange, and the question of what will happen to him? If he is extradited to the US, there is no way he can be secretly tried and executed for espionage. Failing that, the US National Security State would not want Assange talking to anybody, especially not talking publicly or on the social media platform.
You have to expect a "brokered deal" of silence on the part of Assange in return for leniency (maybe even probation). The National Security State may let him off with 6 months in jail, then tell we "citizen/idiots" that Assange has provided invaluable secret information on the Russians, Chinese, Ukrainians, etc. etc. etc. And of course, that secret information can't ever be disclosed.
Look for Assange to wind up living out a retirement at a cushy location, maybe in the US or Switzerland. It looks like Assange holds all the cards. And like the JFK case, we folks in the American public will either be the last to know (or never to know the real facts at all), i.e. never.
James Lateer