Julian Assange: The Pale Faced Man Who Lives In A Small Room With No Sunlight.
Small victories
Since being cleared of all charges in Sweden, Julian Assange is still being confined to a small room with no access to sunlight. He has succumbed to illness from time to time due to this, but still the authorities deny him access to doctors or a hospital. His dark humour and strong ethos is a lesson to us all. He was asked recently how he put up with his 24-7 confinement: "It sure beats a supermax!" was his smart reply.
And still the show goes on. It is not over, but slowly unwinding. The UN working group on arbitrary detention ruled last year that Assange has been detained unlawfully by the British authorities. This is international law at its finest. Or not.
The UK and Sweden both took part in a 16 month long UN investigation that had lawyers going back and forth over the issues as they defended themselves to the max. Still they were found guilty.
The British Metropolitan Police have recently issued a statement saying the arrest of Assange still stands as they still believe he is a threat to the greater London public. But if he did surrender what would happen? Within two minutes his extradition papers to the US would be fulfilled.
If the UK Government (my own government) allows this to happen, then in the eyes of the world it should be shamed as an accessory to war crimes. It should be tarred as the same rampant power against freedom and justice that started it all. Who knew it would all end in such a small room with no sunlight? Let us all hope that is not the final endgame.
I'm not completely aware of everything that went on with wikileaks. But i think you do not treat people in the way this man has been treated.
Such is the nature of the rapacious beast!
well him and snowden at least "got away" truly shameful, on the US and all the related sides, bending rules to their liking, showing just how much of a scam governments are, we decide, you do! , but they don't ask do you decide, they just write papers and issue statements, danger, run, be afraid, somebody cares and stands for something, just goes to show how rotten their smelly pockets are.
tell me again why we need government?
what exactly are they good for?
Rapacious empire building ... that is what they are good for :(
there's that word again.
Thanks for that non-rapacious comment :)
I had forgotten about him, he was even considered missing some time ago based on yt videos :D
They should focus on the criminals exposed by the leaks and stop turning the people who report the crimes into the villains. I don't care HOW they get the leaks. If they report a crime, it is still the crime that should be the focus, not the messenger.
Yet this is what happens when the criminals have managed to get into most of the positions of power in the world.
The "mission" was to destroy the "trust" that was WikiLeaks' "centre of gravity". This would be achieved with threats of "exposure [and] criminal prosecution". Silencing and criminalising such an unpredictable source of truth-telling was the aim.
Yes, but it has happened to many leakers beyond wikileaks. Snowden, Manning, and apparently there have been others.
The Hillary Clinton solution: "Can't we just drone this guy."
Yep.
Assange's ability to defend himself in such a Kafkaesque world has been severely limited by the US declaring his case a state secret. How convenient!!
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doggo thinks he should be freed
That is one smart doggo - and one cool graphic @datboithe1 :)
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much thanks :3
much steem on!