Post by robeiae on Jan 3, 2021 9:21:06 GMT -5
Tomorrow, a UK judge will rule on Assange's extradition to the US: apnews.com/article/joe-biden-donald-trump-julian-assange-london-espionage-02df3aa0c24a7e4e2391554304a47386
As the above piece notes, there is still hope in the Assange camp that Trump will pardon him, rendering this all moot.
Here's Greenwald's latest bit on Assange: greenwald.substack.com/p/the-kafkaesque-imprisonment-of-julian
As much as I like some of Greenwald's stuff, his hard-on for Assange is annoying. Reading the above piece, one would thing Assange has been locked in hell-hole for decades, lives on bread and water, and is routinely tortured. Look at this part:
Head on pike?!?! Come on. I mean, there's a fair point in here, because it's true that some "leakers" who do so at the behest of government officials get praised all day long and never really are in jeopardy. But there us the issue of what exactly is being leaked, as well, which Greenwald kinda side-steps.
But regardless, Assange hasn't been in prison for very long, and the primary reason why Ecuador kicked his ass out of its embassy is the fact that he's an entitled douchenozzle who expected to be waited on and not have to bear the cost of his stay in the embassy. Imo.
Thoughts?
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will find out Monday whether he can be extradited from the U.K. to the U.S. to face espionage charges over the publication of secret American military documents.
District Judge Vanessa Baraitser is due to deliver her decision at London’s Old Bailey courthouse at 10 a.m. Monday. If she grants the request, then Britain’s home secretary, Priti Patel, would make the final decision.
Whichever side loses is expected to appeal, which could lead to years more legal wrangling.
District Judge Vanessa Baraitser is due to deliver her decision at London’s Old Bailey courthouse at 10 a.m. Monday. If she grants the request, then Britain’s home secretary, Priti Patel, would make the final decision.
Whichever side loses is expected to appeal, which could lead to years more legal wrangling.
Here's Greenwald's latest bit on Assange: greenwald.substack.com/p/the-kafkaesque-imprisonment-of-julian
As much as I like some of Greenwald's stuff, his hard-on for Assange is annoying. Reading the above piece, one would thing Assange has been locked in hell-hole for decades, lives on bread and water, and is routinely tortured. Look at this part:
Similarly: powerful officials in Washington can illegally leak the most sensitive government secrets and will suffer no punishment, or will get the lightest tap on the wrist, provided their aim is to advance mainstream narratives. But low-level leakers whose aim is to expose wrongdoing by the powerful or reveal their systemic lying will have the full weight of the criminal justice system and the intelligence community come crashing down on them, to destroy them with vengeance and also to put their heads on a pike to terrorize future dissidents out of similarly stepping forward.
Journalists like Bob Woodward, who spend decades spilling the most sensitive secrets at the behest of the ruling class D.C. elites, will be lavished with awards and immense wealth. But those like Julian Assange who publish similar secrets but against the will of those elites, with the goal and outcome of exposing (rather than obscuring) ruling class lies and impeding (rather than advancing) their agenda, will suffer the opposite fate as Woodward: they will endure every imaginable punishment, including indefinite imprisonment in maximum-security cells. That is because Woodward is a servant of power while Assange is a dissident against it.
Journalists like Bob Woodward, who spend decades spilling the most sensitive secrets at the behest of the ruling class D.C. elites, will be lavished with awards and immense wealth. But those like Julian Assange who publish similar secrets but against the will of those elites, with the goal and outcome of exposing (rather than obscuring) ruling class lies and impeding (rather than advancing) their agenda, will suffer the opposite fate as Woodward: they will endure every imaginable punishment, including indefinite imprisonment in maximum-security cells. That is because Woodward is a servant of power while Assange is a dissident against it.
But regardless, Assange hasn't been in prison for very long, and the primary reason why Ecuador kicked his ass out of its embassy is the fact that he's an entitled douchenozzle who expected to be waited on and not have to bear the cost of his stay in the embassy. Imo.
Thoughts?