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Interpol and Julian Assange's Red Notice



Thursday, March 17, 2011


By Tess Lawrence



Interpol's Red Notice on Julian Assange


Why did Julian Assange receive an Interpol Red Notice, but Gaddafi only an Orange? Tess Lawrence investigates the murky world of Interpol exclusively for Independent Australia asking some troubling questions and uncovering some startling facts.
Why was Julian Assange who has not yet been charged given the most severe Red Notice by Interpol, when brutal dictator Muammar Gaddafi only received an Orange Notice?
Do senior Interpol officials have a vendetta against Wikileaks and Julian Assange?
Is the organisation and its Notice System fatally compromised?
What's with the Interpol Colour Chart for the world's most wanted?
Recidivist mass murderer Muammar Gaddafi he of the all-girl vestal virgin Clit Squad cops a mere clockwork Orange Notice whilst our Julian Assange of WikiLeaks exposer of state-sanctioned killers and war crimes and who is fighting extradition to Sweden for uncharged sexual allegations is king hit with the big ticket Red Notice. Go figure.
There's something shonky going on in the shady world of Interpolitics. Let's move in for a closer shufti.
Have you checked out the profiles of alleged crims who normally make the Red Notice billboard? We're talking big-time kahuna felons here. Terrorists, mass murderers, people traffickers, drug barons and their ilk. Got the picture?
Try as I did, I just couldn't find anyone else in the entire of Red Notice history as far down the criminal dude chain as our Julian. And, apparently, never before has Sweden requested a Red Notice based on similar circumstances and allegations.
What's more, Interpol sources say that the Red Notice posting of Julian Assange is the first and only case of its kind. Is that true Interpol?
Interpol is such a funny little secretive and paradoxical clubbette always going on about how worthy and important it is to data sharing, preserving international security, the ongoing tumultuous fight against terrorism and corruption and the eradication of international crime by enabling all of their 188 members with the power to fight organised crimeincluding that well known bastion of human rights, justice and democratic egalitarianism, Libya.
Ipso facto Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen, Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, the Philippines, Morocco, Sudan, Australia, Britain, the United States, Russia, India, Indonesia, China, Pakistan and Afghanistan and all of the rest of us who are guilty of hypocrisy and political expediency and who wallpaper our economies with banknotes sullied with the sweat and blood of the disenfranchised, the bullied, the defeated and the enslaved.
We dance naked before our fully clothed despotic masters and do their bidding on the pretext they do ours. Ahhh… political fellatio a higher art form when conducted between consenting countries rather than desperate homo sapiens.
Only a matter of weeks ago, the West and its subordinates were extolling the virtues of the important geopolitical positions and posturings of the likes of dictatorial psychopaths Egypt's Hosni Mubarak and Muammar Gadaffi Libya's self-proclaimed "King of Africa".
The facts that these two share the same incompetent hair colourist as Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and appear to have been dipped in formaldehyde should have given us a few clues.
They've had so much cosmetic surgery they probably haven't any tear ducts left. That's why they can't cry, for pity's sake, and why they didn't need all those tear gas canisters we authorised and branded with our logo.
What do we care about their peoples; our brothers and sisters; our kith and kin? Other tribes they may be but of our own species? Well, sort of. Just. But hey, they were really losers weren't they? Big time. They deserved the governments they didn't vote for. Like us.
Former Interpol President Jackie Selebi Convicted of Corruption
Just like Interpol deserved its former President … who was done for corruption, fraud and racketeering and such things. True dinks, I kid you not. Yes, the President of Interpol!
While we're at it, I'm puzzled as to how an international agency such as Interpol could be so incompetent that it couldn't even find a photo of Julian Assange to go with his Red Notice posting (see above). C'mon, fair suck of the fellatio sav, haven't they heard of Google or in-your-Facebook?
Interpol remains publicly contemptuous of and unaccountable to the world it purports to serve.
For a start, they're supposed to be the top guns, the crème de la crème, of information gathering sleuths, data merging, analyses and people tracking. Well, I'd like to see a group like Transparency International investigate Interpol. You know that Interpol is not supposed to do any political favours?
But I'm not convinced. Call me churlish…perhaps I've been inhaling too much tear gas. Or not enough!
Take the way Interpol crisis managed their corrupt President, Jackie Selebi.
In 2002, the then National Commissioner of the South African Police Service, was elected as Interpol's Vice President and a couple of years later, in 2004 he was voted President.
I'm assuming that Interpol would practice normal HR due diligence and conduct background checks not only on its thousands of employees worldwide but also on its elected officers.
After all, doing these checks is their forte. Surely no one would be exempt from these basic policing protocols and security checks?
Of course, on the surface of it, Mr Selebi's credentials were impeccable, no question. As were his connections … well, most of them.
After all, he was a former head of the ANC Youth League, an MP, South Africa's representative to the United Nations and Chair of an Anti-Landmine Conference, Chair of Justice, Crime Prevention and Security and all of that. Goodness, the man even won a Human Rights Award! (What a co-incidence, Julian Assange has won several of those too…)
On September 10, 2007, South Africa's National Prosecuting Authority issued a warrant for Selebi's arrest. Did Interpol post a Red Notice on their President? Course not.
How come he didn't resign as President of Interpol until months later, on January 13, 2008?
And why is my feverish mind and feint heart suddenly darting over the Kenyan border and thinking of the tragic murders of human rights activists lawyer Oscar Kamau Kingara and his assistant John Paul Oulu?
Both men were gunned down in their car whilst stuck in a traffic jam near the University of Nairobi on their way to a human rights meeting.
These courageous whistleblowers had refused to cower before corrupt police and political thugs and the report they helped produce in 2008 was to result in that courage being met with even greater cowardice by their killers on March 5, 2009 and indifference by the rest of the world.
Like their brutal executions, the report The Cry of Blood Report on Extra Judicial Killings and Disappearances and there were thousands of killings attributed to the Kenyan police was largely ignored by Western and mainstream media. Still is.
But Julian Assange and WikiLeaks grasped the significance of the Report and published it and were damned, earning Amnesty International's New Media Award for 2009.
So, a kangaroo hop and a carjacking skip from Kenya back to South Africa. Both Interpol members. We shan't bother joining any dots.
On July 2, 2010, after being subjected to a scathing dressing down by the Judge in South Africa's High Court, Selebi was found guilty of corruption.
He was subsequently sentenced to 15 years imprisonment and has since been given leave to appeal.
From the evidence submitted to the Court, it was obvious that Selebi abused his privileged position like alerting people that they were under police surveillance not a good look for a President of Interpol and made preposterous assertions that he was unaware of the criminal activities of his longstanding decidedly criminal civilian associates.
This from a man who was his country's Police Commissioner and the head of Interpol. Our Interpol. The World's Interpol.
And let us not forget that while holding dual office, Selebi was the dude who first suggested legalising prostitution but only for the duration of the 2010 World Soccer Cup, mind you.
Nice one Jackie. Your heart was in the right place right behind your trouser zip. You can see why he was elected head of Interpol.
Now let's be fair about this. Just because a President of Interpol turns out to be corrupt does not mean we should condemn the whole organisation. After all, excreta (it's the lapsed Catholic in me) happens, to misquote Opposition Leader Tony Abbott.
http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/47037