Monday, April 15, 2019
Sunday, April 14, 2019
recommended by a friend and posted here as a result, in which the assange situation is clearly made in short work, all pasted here;
Tonight both Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange are in jail, both over offences related to the publication of materials specifying US war crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq, and both charged with nothing else at all. No matter what bullshit political and MSM liars try to feed you, that is the simple truth. Manning and Assange are true heroes of our time, and are suffering for it.
If a Russian opposition politician were dragged out by armed police, and within three hours had been convicted on a political charge by a patently biased judge with no jury, with a lengthy jail sentence to follow, can you imagine the Western media reaction to that kind of kangaroo court? Yet that is exactly what just happened in London.
District Judge Michael Snow is a disgrace to the bench who deserves to be infamous well beyond his death. He displayed the most plain and open prejudice against Assange in the 15 minutes it took for him to hear the case and declare Assange guilty, in a fashion which makes the dictators’ courts I had witnessed, in Babangida’s Nigeria or Karimov’s Uzbekistan, look fair and reasonable, in comparison to the gross charade of justice conducted by Michael Snow.
One key fact gave away Snow’s enormous prejudice. Julian Assange said nothing during the whole brief proceedings, other than to say “Not guilty” twice, and to ask a one sentence question about why the charges were changed midway through this sham “trial”. Yet Judge Michael Snow condemned Assange as “narcissistic”. There was nothing that happened in Snow’s brief court hearing that could conceivably have given rise to that opinion. It was plainly something he brought with him into the courtroom, and had read or heard in the mainstream media or picked up in his club. It was in short the very definition of prejudice, and “Judge” Michael Snow and his summary judgement is a total disgrace.
We wrapped up the final Wikileaks and legal team meeting at 21.45 tonight and thereafter Kristian Hrafnsson and I had dinner together. The whole team, including Julian, is energised rather than downhearted. At last there is no more hiding for the pretend liberals behind ludicrous Swedish allegations or bail jumping allegations, and the true motive – revenge for the Chelsea Manning revelations – is now completely in the open.
To support the persecution of Assange in these circumstances is to support absolute state censorship of the internet. It is to support the claim that any journalist who receives and publishes official material which indicates US government wrongdoing, can be punished for its publication. Furthermore this US claim involves an astonishing boost to universal jurisdiction. Assange was nowhere near the USA when he published the documents, but nonetheless US courts are willing to claim jurisdiction. This is a threat to press and internet freedom everywhere.
These are scary times. But those may also be the most inspiring of times.........https://www.lewrockwell.com/2019/04/no_author/chelsea-and-julian-are-in-jail-history-trembles/
Tonight both Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange are in jail, both over offences related to the publication of materials specifying US war crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq, and both charged with nothing else at all. No matter what bullshit political and MSM liars try to feed you, that is the simple truth. Manning and Assange are true heroes of our time, and are suffering for it.
If a Russian opposition politician were dragged out by armed police, and within three hours had been convicted on a political charge by a patently biased judge with no jury, with a lengthy jail sentence to follow, can you imagine the Western media reaction to that kind of kangaroo court? Yet that is exactly what just happened in London.
District Judge Michael Snow is a disgrace to the bench who deserves to be infamous well beyond his death. He displayed the most plain and open prejudice against Assange in the 15 minutes it took for him to hear the case and declare Assange guilty, in a fashion which makes the dictators’ courts I had witnessed, in Babangida’s Nigeria or Karimov’s Uzbekistan, look fair and reasonable, in comparison to the gross charade of justice conducted by Michael Snow.
One key fact gave away Snow’s enormous prejudice. Julian Assange said nothing during the whole brief proceedings, other than to say “Not guilty” twice, and to ask a one sentence question about why the charges were changed midway through this sham “trial”. Yet Judge Michael Snow condemned Assange as “narcissistic”. There was nothing that happened in Snow’s brief court hearing that could conceivably have given rise to that opinion. It was plainly something he brought with him into the courtroom, and had read or heard in the mainstream media or picked up in his club. It was in short the very definition of prejudice, and “Judge” Michael Snow and his summary judgement is a total disgrace.
We wrapped up the final Wikileaks and legal team meeting at 21.45 tonight and thereafter Kristian Hrafnsson and I had dinner together. The whole team, including Julian, is energised rather than downhearted. At last there is no more hiding for the pretend liberals behind ludicrous Swedish allegations or bail jumping allegations, and the true motive – revenge for the Chelsea Manning revelations – is now completely in the open.
To support the persecution of Assange in these circumstances is to support absolute state censorship of the internet. It is to support the claim that any journalist who receives and publishes official material which indicates US government wrongdoing, can be punished for its publication. Furthermore this US claim involves an astonishing boost to universal jurisdiction. Assange was nowhere near the USA when he published the documents, but nonetheless US courts are willing to claim jurisdiction. This is a threat to press and internet freedom everywhere.
These are scary times. But those may also be the most inspiring of times.........https://www.lewrockwell.com/2019/04/no_author/chelsea-and-julian-are-in-jail-history-trembles/
found on www and pasted here: "One of the greatest challenges that we are
currently facing, especially at the individual level, is the fact that
we are forced to operate in an economic and financial environment that
is so far away from what we believe in. Whether for religious reasons,
or for philosophical and moral reasons, or even for purely economic
ones, many of us believe in individual freedom, personal responsibility,
sound money and a government that does not have the ability to create
currencies out of nothing. However, we have to deal with the exact
opposite every single day." - Claudio Grass
the trumpers entertain me as much as the saint obama followers. in the current assange burning issue case the trumpers are most entertaining with their q focus, which seems like waiting for the easter bunny to arrive, so dig into what caitlin has to say about it all here;
At a time when everyone should be out in the streets shaking the earth and protesting the Trump administration’s prosecution of Julian Assange for exposing US war crimes, those who continue to support this president have one message and one message only when it comes to the WikiLeaks founder: Don’t do anything. Relax, wait and see, trust Trump, and don’t do anything. Trump is about to save Assange, and save us all. Do nothing.
Who do you guys think this strategy benefits, exactly?
These are all people who say they support Assange and WikiLeaks, who say they support free speech and oppose the deep state, and yet what they are doing today hurts Assange and helps the unelected power establishment known as the deep state just as much as the hysterical Russiavape dupes who are overtly smearing Assange today.
At a time when everyone should be out in the streets shaking the earth and protesting the Trump administration’s prosecution of Julian Assange for exposing US war crimes, those who continue to support this president have one message and one message only when it comes to the WikiLeaks founder: Don’t do anything. Relax, wait and see, trust Trump, and don’t do anything. Trump is about to save Assange, and save us all. Do nothing.
Who do you guys think this strategy benefits, exactly?
These are all people who say they support Assange and WikiLeaks, who say they support free speech and oppose the deep state, and yet what they are doing today hurts Assange and helps the unelected power establishment known as the deep state just as much as the hysterical Russiavape dupes who are overtly smearing Assange today.
To be clear, not everyone who voted for Trump is doing this; many are aggressively opposing this administration’s prosecution of Assange and vocally withdrawing all support
for him. But the ones who are engaged in the behavior I’m describing
are all helping to kill the loud and aggressive opposition to Assange’s
imprisonment which is so desperately needed right now, and they’re
helping everyone they claim to oppose. The pussyhat-wearing Assange
haters and the MAGA hat-wearing Assange lovers are on the same side on
this issue, mindlessly working toward the exact same agenda: the
permanent imprisonment of a truth-telling journalist........https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2019/04/13/trump-supporters-are-hurting-assange-with-their-4-d-chess-talk/
here's your daily serving of the thin blue line;
Greenville, SC — This week, a Bob Jones University Police Department officer was arrested and taken to jail for the repeated rape of a mentally challenged woman—over the course of three years.
Deputies with the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office arrested officer Darren Thomas Wesley, 51, on Tuesday and charged him with multiple criminal sexual conduct charges. According to investigators, they received a tip that Wesley had been victimizing the mentally challenged woman so they launched an investigation last month.
According to that investigation, the reason the abuse was allowed to go on for so long is due to Wesley threatening the woman if she told on him. According to investigators, Wesley told the woman that if she resisted his rape or told anyone about it, then her family would be destroyed. Police say this “caused serious psychological harm to the victim.”
As WYFF reports:.......https://thefreethoughtproject.com/mentally-challenged-woman-repeatedly-police-officer/
Greenville, SC — This week, a Bob Jones University Police Department officer was arrested and taken to jail for the repeated rape of a mentally challenged woman—over the course of three years.
Deputies with the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office arrested officer Darren Thomas Wesley, 51, on Tuesday and charged him with multiple criminal sexual conduct charges. According to investigators, they received a tip that Wesley had been victimizing the mentally challenged woman so they launched an investigation last month.
According to that investigation, the reason the abuse was allowed to go on for so long is due to Wesley threatening the woman if she told on him. According to investigators, Wesley told the woman that if she resisted his rape or told anyone about it, then her family would be destroyed. Police say this “caused serious psychological harm to the victim.”
As WYFF reports:.......https://thefreethoughtproject.com/mentally-challenged-woman-repeatedly-police-officer/
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