RE: A Retrospective Look At The Work WikiLeaks Made Possible As Assange Remains Silenced
"Those charges in Sweden... the charges have been dropped."
No, there were never any charges in Sweden, and the investigation was dropped years later than it should have been thanks to pressure from the UK government in 2013.
"There's no arrest warrant for him in the US."
That is absolutely untrue, there is a maximal probability that a secret indictment exists against him. In the wake of Vault 7's publication, Reuters reported: "Federal prosecutors in Alexandria, Virginia, have expanded a long-running grand jury investigation into WikiLeaks to include the leak of Central Intelligence Agency documents to the website, a source familiar with the inquiry said.U.S. officials have confirmed that Alexandria-based prosecutors have been conducting a federal grand jury investigation into WikiLeaks and its sources. Some court documents on elements of the inquiry have been made public."
During the ten-hour #ReconnectJulian vigil, CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou confirmed the extremely high likelihood that secret charges await Assange in the United States, specifying that such charges would likely be filed in the Eastern District Court of Virginia, which he said is known as “the Espionage court.” Kiriakou explained that this was because no national security defendant had ever won a case there, and that it is the home of the Central Intelligence Agency. He said: “[Assange] couldn’t possibly get a fair trial in the Eastern District of Virginia.”
"Julian Assange cannot “leave whenever he wants”. A judge with severely corrupt ties ruled in February that his arrest warrant still stands for an absurd bail-jumping charge from 2012 that Assange has already served his sentence for many times over according to the law as it is written. As soon as he sets foot outside the embassy he will most certainly be arrested, and then most certainly extradited to the US where the Trump administration is aggressively pursuing his arrest.
Chelsea Manning was tortured. CIA black sites exist. The hoards of online trolls promulgating the narrative that Assange can “leave whenever he wants” would crack like eggs under the treatment that is inflicted upon individuals who have dared to stand up to the US-centralized empire.
Assange isn’t hiding from justice, he is hiding from injustice. There is no reason to believe that this draconian empire would give him a fair trial and humane treatment. He can no more “leave whenever he wants” than he could if there was a firing squad stationed outside the embassy door.
And now this same western empire has pressured Ecuador into cutting off Assange’s internet access, phone calls and visitors to its siege, with electronic jammers being placed inside the embassy to make doubly certain that he is completely cut off from the world. A whole new array of weapons have been added to the empire’s siege, and it’s getting a lot hotter in there."
Chelsea Manning wasn't tortured, not in the true sense of torture, please go view my comment on that thread to Caitlin. This isn't a third world country that throws people in a dungeon.
Believe me nothing like a arrest warrant for Assange would be a secret here anymore with all the leaking. It's appalling to say the least. People have lost all confidence in the intelligence community here. They can investigate and assemble all they want but it doesn't mean they are going to come up with connections....maybe that's what Assange is afraid of, that they did, but if he knows there is no way they could he has nothing to fear by threats that, in my opinion, are made to coerce him into self containment. You have to admit if you don't have strong enough evidence against someone there's no better way to jail them then if they opt to kept themselves contained. Like I said in a prior comment people here have voting power and any move against Assange is going to be met with that voting power and the politicians know that. Furthermore, in my personal opinion he'd better off to come out under the Trump administration then to wait and take a chance with another democratic administration in the future, those people are so angry that Hillary lost they still can't get over it and would be more than likely to apply extreme amount of pressure to hang Assange anyway they could find.