Julian Assange in grave danger as he loses latest appeal
JVL Introduction
On June 6th, a British Court rejected Julian Assange’s appeal against extradition to the US. If his final appeal fails, he faces an almost certain guilty verdict and incarceration for 175 years in one of the worst imagineable prisons in the world. The campaign to free him continues. The silencing of an investigative journalist, who has exposed the powerful is highly dangerous. The toll on Julian and his family is profound; as humanitarians and advocates for free speech and for holding the powerful to account, we have no choice but to support the campaign to free him.
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This article was originally published by Guardian on Fri 9 Jun 2023. Read the original here.
Julian Assange ‘dangerously close’ to US extradition after losing latest legal appeal
Assange’s father, John Shipton, says his son’s grounds for a further UK hearing are ‘clear, firm and just’
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It’s time the British public realised that the Judiciary and the Executive are not independent of each other and are part of the same class system born & bred. The public school elites have dominated ‘the establishment for centuries as the myth of equality and social mobility remains an illusion ‘peddled’ to provide ‘hope’ of a better tomorrow.
‘The Law’, is designed to maintain the status quo. Power will always remain in the hands of the elite classes and ‘enforced’ by a system of coercion and empty promises. Politicians once promised us hope, now all we have are threats and austerity. Julian Assange is guilty of the crime of ‘journalism’ and will be made an example of to show what happens if and when you seriously challenge ‘the establishment’ as we move into an era where ‘Freedom of Speech’ is just another item on GB News, another illusion where truth and reality part company.
I would imagine that the authorities will press for a plea bargain in order to avoid a trial. That is what happened when James Earl Ray was extradited to the USA and it thus enabled him to be framed for the assassination of Martin Luther King.
Ray went through a number of attorneys. One of these was Percy Foreman, a friend and ally of President Johnson. He was able to trick and coerce Ray into a plea bargain.
Later, Ray appealed to Judge Preston Battle for a trial but he was unable to give a ruling because he very conveniently died of a heart attack. The new judge ruled against a trial.
Several years later, Judge Joe Brown was removed as appeal court judge.
He can be seen on YouTube stating that Ray’s rifle was not the murder weapon and that Ray was not the killer. It is worth bearing in mind that Brown is an enthusiastic gun owner and apparently very knowledgeable on the subject of rifles.
https://labourheartlands.com/
Exclusive: Ken Loach calls out Sir Keir Starmer, what were his dealings in the Julian Assange case.
Paul Knaggs –
July 26, 2021
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The emails between the Swedish Prosecuting Authority (SPA) and the CPS show that the latter was closely involved in the Assange case at every stage.
In one such email, dated 25 January 2011, a CPS lawyer advised the SPA not to send someone to the UK: “My earlier advice remains, that in my view it would not be prudent for the Swedish authorities to try to interview the defendant [Assange] in the UK.“
In August 2012, in response to an article saying Sweden could withdraw the warrant against Assange, a CPS staffer (name redacted) warned [pdf, p1] Sweden’s Director of Public Prosecutions Marianne Ny: “Don’t you dare get cold feet!!!“
On 14 August 2021 Ken Loach announced he had been expelled from the LP. This decision to expel Ken Loach of course can’t be said to have been influenced by the above article quoting him in the Labour Heartlands article.
But it more than suggests that had it not been for Keir Starmer’s office the Assange case could have been wrapped up a decade ago.
Every time I’ve read an article on Julian Assange, I feel angry and emotional, he never hurt anyone, tortured or killed anyone, his only crime was to tell the World of the war crimes of US soldiers. That’s a sin worthy of a sentence that is longer than life itself according to the US, which is enough to make anyone who cares about justice angry but my anger is caused by the UK Government and Starmer’s Opposition Party, they are bowing to the US Government and clearly have not an ounce of compassion or desire to see justice done, he’s been a prisoner already for many years and he’s innocent of any crime. The government should step in and tell the US, he’s suffered enough and Starmer should be calling for his release but everyone knows he would never, ever do that.