They’re just stringing Julian Assange along, hoping he dies in prison. From Jonathan Cook at antiwar.com:
The US has had years to clarify its intention to give Assange a fair trial but refuses to do so. The UK court’s latest ruling is yet more collusion in his show trial
The interminable and abhorrent saga of Julian Assange’s incarceration for the crime of journalism continues. And once again, the headline news is a lie, one designed both to buy our passivity and to buy more time for the British and US establishments to keep the Wikileaks founder permanently disappeared from view.
The Guardian – which has a mammoth, undeclared conflict of interest in its coverage of the extradition proceedings against Assange (you can read about that here and here) – headlined the ruling by the UK High Court as a “temporary reprieve” for Assange. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Five years on, Assange is still caged in Belmarsh high-security prison, convicted of absolutely nothing.
Five years on, he still faces a trial in the US on ludicrous charges under a century-old, draconian piece of legislation called the Espionage Act. Assange is not a US citizen and none of the charges relate to anything he did in the US.
Five years on, the English judiciary is still rubber-stamping his show trial – a warning to others not to expose state crimes, as Assange did in publishing details of British and US war crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Five years on, judges in London are still turning a blind eye to Assange’s sustained psychological torture, as the former United Nations legal expert Nils Melzer has documented.
A HS son of a preacher man bud killed a fed and they gave him the supermax treatment or sent away to rot until the end.
If only some banditos like the old westerns could bust him out and the IRA pulled off an amazing escape at Maze in 1983.
There is one democracy that actually works…Irish Democracy.
“The IRA was never defeated.”
Tony Blair.