Julian #Assange Offered Freedom By Trump in Exchange For The Source of DNC Leaks
Friday 18th September - Today's Hearing
The response by the US government lawyer, James Lewis QC said: “The position of the government is we don’t contest these things were said. We obviously do not accept the truth of what was said by others.” Well, you conclude for yourselves, this not a denial of the facts.
Mr #Assange is paying with his life for refusing to disclose his source, he has stuck to his journalistic code. It is not clear why Mr Trump has not pardoned him when he has pardoned Clint Lawrence the US Lieutenant who was imprisoned for war crimes for killing two Afghan civilians.
Trump has instead facilitated the inhumane harassment and torture of #Assange since he got him dragged out of the Ecuadorian embassy. He is hell bent on trying to punish #Assange for exposing US war crimes.
In the ideal world exposing war crimes should be legal and applauded, but we are living in a dystopian world where covering up war crimes is legal and abated.
The arrogance of this US Government is so nakedly brazen insisting that it has the right to prosecute any journalist and publication, anywhere in the world, for publishing the truth about its war crimes. Like the US owns the world, and everybody on it, you, me, your family, friends, your dogs, your government, your continent and all the plastic sh*t polluting our world.
Also, revealed at today's hearing was the
Witness Statement of Khalid al-Masri. A diplomatic cable about his illegal rendition and torture was released by Wikileaks. He is German-Lebanese citizen who was mistakenly abducted, handed over to the CIA and subsequently tortured. This would not have come to light if it wasn't for #Assange's case. For the first time a victim of a CIA rendition operation has been able to confront the USA in a court of law. The US certainly wanted to keep this statement from US torture victim El Masri hidden from the world. The US tried to keep El Masri’s testimony out of the #Assangecase Court record at all costs.
The trial also will undoubtedly be remembered as a dystopian circus. Every day single day is censorship day with the most ridiculous "technical difficulties" for a country that can spy on an ant colony with satellites from space, they are making it impossible for journalists to report on the proceedings. Those that give the correct objective correct account are being locked completely, denied access.
The show trial against political prisoner Julian Assange keeps getting more dystopian by the day.
The depravity of the US has no limits, the way its lawyers are pushing a nonsensical arguement that journalism is espionage is condemning British justice to a kangaroo court system.
Author: Ashe
Just a reminder of the Panama papers, we are living in a corrupt world. The governments are the biggest criminal organisations and will go to any lengths to kill those expose their crimes.
https://www.icij.org /investigations/panama-papers/
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