TODAY. How the USA betrays and disdains its allies – the case of Julian Assange.
Proper now, USA leaders are bewailing and admiring Alexei Navalny – the brave Russian who stood as much as Putin, and paid the final word value for publicly exposing the federal government’s crimes .
The hypocrisy of Joe Biden and the remainder of these phony U.S. “patriots” – too cowardly to resist the reality, – to simply accept that their nice “distinctive” nation might have achieved some improper issues! Just like the Russian authorities, you eliminate, you kill, the one that uncovered your wrongdoing.
Solely the Russians do it rapidly, with out finesse.
The American authorities constructs an elaborate authorized justification, and, with the sycophantic assist of the British authorities, a long-drawn out process of torture – over a few years – punishing the truth-speaker – the Australian citizen Julian Assange – within the title of “justice”.
Julian Assange shouldn’t be an American citizen. He was not an official of the USA authorities. He didn’t hack into U.S. authorities computer systems to find categorised paperwork. But Assange is charged with this pc misuse, and espionage of categorised paperwork! With violating 17 counts of the 1917 Espionage Act, with a possible sentence of 170 years!
What Assange did was to do what journalists do – publish data given to him by a supply (- Chelsea Manning). The New York Occasions, The Guardian, and Der Spiegel additionally revealed this data. Why are their editors and journalists not additionally being charged with espionage?
Assange revealed crimes – massacres of civilians, torture, assassinations, the record of detainees held at Guantanamo Bay and the circumstances they have been subjected to, in addition to the Guidelines of Engagement in Iraq, helicopter pilots who gunned down two Reuters journalists and 10 different civilians and severely injured two kids. These perpetrators have by no means been charged. with something.
Aside from the intrinsic injustice of the claims in opposition to Assange, there was a complete sequence of unlawful and really questionable actions in opposition to him. Some examples – the surveillance of Assange and his legal professionals by a Spanish agency, whereas he was within the Ecuadorian Embassy, Ecuador’s rescinding Julian’s asylum standing permitting police in, the UK court docket’s acceptance of the declare that Assange is “not a journalist”. A key witness admitted to fabricating the accusations in opposition to him. The CIA made plans for kidnapping and assassinating him.
Julian was convicted of breaching his bail circumstances. The punishment? Virtually 5 years in solitary confinement in most safety Belmarsh jail. Belmarsh is for Class A prisoners, those that “pose probably the most risk to the general public, the police or nationwide safety” and stand accused of terrorism, homicide, or sexual violence.
Article 4 of the Extradition Treaty between USA and UK prohibits extradition for political offenses. Why has this been ignored within the drive to ship Assange to trial within the USA?
It’s doubtless that the British court docket will proceed the British kow-towing to America.
As for Australia – the Australian Parliament, together with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, truly now have put their heads above the parapet, and known as on the USA to launch Assange. A little bit of braveness on their half – not seen for the reason that days of Gough Whitlam (who was severely punished for making an attempt to face as much as the USA.)
But it surely issues little – what Australia needs for its citizen Assange. Australia has signed up for the nuclear submarine boondoggle, and for plastering U.S. army bases across the nation, and for being prepared to affix in attacking China each time requested to.
Proper now, Australia IS making some feeble makes an attempt to separate itself from Joe Biden’s fealty to Israel, and even from castigating China. These might be disregarded by the mighty USA.
“Friendship’ with the USA is solely a method, and Assange awaits his final persecution.
February 21, 2024 –
Posted by Christina Macpherson |
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