Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ British Home Secretary Priti Patel has authorized the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States to be tried under the Espionage Act in a case which seeks to set a legal precedent for the prosecution of any publisher or journalist, anywhere in the world, who reports inconvenient truths about the US empire.
He has already been incarcerated for more time than the average convicted murderer in the US serves.
His crime? Embarrassing the American government. Meanwhile the egregious scumbags Brennan and Clapper, at the core of the spying on all American citizens, who lied to the faces of Congress about their systematic trampling of the Fourth Amendment? No charge, no conviction, no punishment.
I went to a rally for Julian a while back in the s f killafornia city. They thought I was a criminal, but let me speak with a mask on about how Julian is being tortured in jail. thirteen people at that one.
Another in Oakland grand lake theatre had maybe fifty.
Haven't seen nor heard of any support for him since , most of a year...
Now we are too busy with the disCog war or disCog scamdemic to know what is news not lies...
Journalism got killed.
R I Poland... who sent the most troops to die in nUkraine sic
Another vile and inhuman act by the Parasite Oligarchs trying to silence Truth. To hell with these people and FREE ASSANGE. This alone is worth all of our undying support. Add it to the list of what is happening, and why every adult human being on the planet should be in the streets right now.
All I could think about reading this post was how perverse the American population truly is. They care deeply about 2 narcissistic and grotesque celebrities going through a disgusting divorce.....many were glued to their TV sets watching this charade, calling for "justice" yet the most important justice for a man, Assange, who truly deserves it is largely ignored.
These thoughts are largely why I feel so alone in most of my interactions.
I realize that with the Espionage Act, Assange can't make the affirmative defense about there being a moral imperative to release the information, but I could imagine a well-crafted defense that all but does that by forcing enough of the evidence in to make it apparent.
If Assange gets a gaudy America-style, televised trial, the public may be more responsive to a rehearing of the facts now than it was 2010.
This is a political case that will require a political solution (i.e. pardon or commutation), so public opinion actually matters, and there may be a critical mass of disgust with war to turn things in his favor.
This includes an excellent and important perspective. I have tried, from time to time, to place myself into his 11-year ordeal. Impossible to even get close.
But I know this: If I understood that it was having some effect--"forcing the empire to extend some of its ugliness into the light"--that at least some are seeing better, I think that would be a light in my own personal nightmare.
We owe it to him to celebrate the fruits of his courage and sacrifice, even as we also suffer in sympathy and may feel pulled toward an abyss of despair.
Assange is showing courage in the face of something I cannot even imagine experiencing. The sheer mind-numbing fact that he is in jail while so many criminals are not only running around free, but running around posing as "leaders," is stomach churning.
I notice many of the comments are partisan and missing the point. There is only one party in the US. Forget left forget right forget boxes and labels. If we are for freedom we are the opposition.
We patriots that support freedom of the press need to rally to Assange’s defense. He only exposed the truth, which is contrary to the cia’s doings and the Hillary campaign that undercut Bernie Sander. His truth on the USA and foreign doings is subject to debate and transparency, not that this can ever be achieved with the current cia operation. We have seen too much lying and redacted coverup to trust where the truth is even in our own domestic affairs. The fbi and cia need to be overhauled and many of its members fired.
The majority of the people are stuck, believing the lies of their revered political leaders; unable to budge from their fear, they blindly protect themselves from thinking, feeling, and caring about what is just, right and honorable. You are a leading voice on Julian's behalf--we just need to amplify your posts to the far corners of the earth! Thank you
By God you're exactly right Caitlin and you put it well, too.
I'll forward it everywhere I can. Unfortunately that's not a lot.
It's totally criminal, the behaviour of our Australian government, I believe. Completely far, far beyond anything we would ever have thought them capable of.
But we've just had two covid years and have seen what they'll do.
We are seeing the same campaign against doctors and scientists and it is incomprehensible. The spectacle of Simone Gold being 'punished' is frightening beyond words.
Yes, yes. All too maddening, all too much. Too much that is broken. Too few people to care. I hope everyone feels catharsis from all the internet ramblings. More typing about the obvious won’t change anything. This isn’t the first injustice the empire, the global cabal, whatever you want to call it, has committed this week. It won’t be the last. You have eyes. You can witness it in real time. The immoral crazies running humanity into the ground will continue unabated. They are indifferent to your heroes. Like all those before and all who come after, Julian Assange will go the way of Rutger Hauer’s Roy - “lost in time like tears in rain.”
He has already been incarcerated for more time than the average convicted murderer in the US serves.
His crime? Embarrassing the American government. Meanwhile the egregious scumbags Brennan and Clapper, at the core of the spying on all American citizens, who lied to the faces of Congress about their systematic trampling of the Fourth Amendment? No charge, no conviction, no punishment.
I went to a rally for Julian a while back in the s f killafornia city. They thought I was a criminal, but let me speak with a mask on about how Julian is being tortured in jail. thirteen people at that one.
Another in Oakland grand lake theatre had maybe fifty.
Haven't seen nor heard of any support for him since , most of a year...
Now we are too busy with the disCog war or disCog scamdemic to know what is news not lies...
Journalism got killed.
R I Poland... who sent the most troops to die in nUkraine sic
Another vile and inhuman act by the Parasite Oligarchs trying to silence Truth. To hell with these people and FREE ASSANGE. This alone is worth all of our undying support. Add it to the list of what is happening, and why every adult human being on the planet should be in the streets right now.
All I could think about reading this post was how perverse the American population truly is. They care deeply about 2 narcissistic and grotesque celebrities going through a disgusting divorce.....many were glued to their TV sets watching this charade, calling for "justice" yet the most important justice for a man, Assange, who truly deserves it is largely ignored.
These thoughts are largely why I feel so alone in most of my interactions.
"When Exposing a Crime is Treated as Committing a Crime, You Are Ruled By Criminals." Yes, all of them.
I realize that with the Espionage Act, Assange can't make the affirmative defense about there being a moral imperative to release the information, but I could imagine a well-crafted defense that all but does that by forcing enough of the evidence in to make it apparent.
If Assange gets a gaudy America-style, televised trial, the public may be more responsive to a rehearing of the facts now than it was 2010.
This is a political case that will require a political solution (i.e. pardon or commutation), so public opinion actually matters, and there may be a critical mass of disgust with war to turn things in his favor.
One can hope.
DORE '24
This includes an excellent and important perspective. I have tried, from time to time, to place myself into his 11-year ordeal. Impossible to even get close.
But I know this: If I understood that it was having some effect--"forcing the empire to extend some of its ugliness into the light"--that at least some are seeing better, I think that would be a light in my own personal nightmare.
We owe it to him to celebrate the fruits of his courage and sacrifice, even as we also suffer in sympathy and may feel pulled toward an abyss of despair.
Assange is showing courage in the face of something I cannot even imagine experiencing. The sheer mind-numbing fact that he is in jail while so many criminals are not only running around free, but running around posing as "leaders," is stomach churning.
I notice many of the comments are partisan and missing the point. There is only one party in the US. Forget left forget right forget boxes and labels. If we are for freedom we are the opposition.
We patriots that support freedom of the press need to rally to Assange’s defense. He only exposed the truth, which is contrary to the cia’s doings and the Hillary campaign that undercut Bernie Sander. His truth on the USA and foreign doings is subject to debate and transparency, not that this can ever be achieved with the current cia operation. We have seen too much lying and redacted coverup to trust where the truth is even in our own domestic affairs. The fbi and cia need to be overhauled and many of its members fired.
The majority of the people are stuck, believing the lies of their revered political leaders; unable to budge from their fear, they blindly protect themselves from thinking, feeling, and caring about what is just, right and honorable. You are a leading voice on Julian's behalf--we just need to amplify your posts to the far corners of the earth! Thank you
By God you're exactly right Caitlin and you put it well, too.
I'll forward it everywhere I can. Unfortunately that's not a lot.
It's totally criminal, the behaviour of our Australian government, I believe. Completely far, far beyond anything we would ever have thought them capable of.
But we've just had two covid years and have seen what they'll do.
It is sad. Awful. And sad.
Good for you. I will pass it on.
No “PAYtriots” fighting for Assange says everything. It’s all BS.
We are seeing the same campaign against doctors and scientists and it is incomprehensible. The spectacle of Simone Gold being 'punished' is frightening beyond words.
Yes, yes. All too maddening, all too much. Too much that is broken. Too few people to care. I hope everyone feels catharsis from all the internet ramblings. More typing about the obvious won’t change anything. This isn’t the first injustice the empire, the global cabal, whatever you want to call it, has committed this week. It won’t be the last. You have eyes. You can witness it in real time. The immoral crazies running humanity into the ground will continue unabated. They are indifferent to your heroes. Like all those before and all who come after, Julian Assange will go the way of Rutger Hauer’s Roy - “lost in time like tears in rain.”