Thursday, April 12, 2012

QUESTION: Where Is Julian?

It has gone eerily silent regarding Julian Assange. Or at least that is what I am sensing on television networks (and that includes the best of them all, Russia Today, not the rubbish likes of CNN or the BBC) and even online.
After all the sensational reporting about Julian in 2010 and 2011, it all seems to have gone very, very quiet.

It's well known that Julian lost his High Court appeal against extradition to Sweden in February of this year. But what now? Is this the proverbial calm before the storm for him?

I am worried - very worried.

I did some online searches and came across a website, www.justice4assange.com - what I read there did little to comfort me. Consider:
  •  What of the alleged "sealed indictment" against Assange as issued by a Grand Jury in Alexandria, Virginia, as according to justice4assange.com?
  • What of the strong evidence that this sealed indictment has already been issued to the UK and Sweden, both known lapdogs of the United States?
  • What of the statement made by the Australian Embassy (and Australia should be ashamed of itself for not standing by one of its own citizens, by the way) that, "The US investigation against WikiLeaks is unprecedented both in its scale and nature."...?
  • What of the following from the said website, "Most of the attention regarding Julian Assange’s possible extradition to the US has focused on the EU agreements that are meant to prevent onward extradition - namely that the UK Home Office would have to consent to his onward extradition...[but there are other, very important potential legal lacunas and abuses to consider too]..."...?
  • What of this too: "Sweden has in the recent past violated international treaties in relation to surrendering foreign nationals into US custody to be interrogated and tortured (case of extraordinary rendition, Agiza v. Sweden at the European Court of Human Rights). Furthermore, Amnesty International and the UN Committee against Torture criticised Sweden because it rendered two refugees to the CIA who were then tortured under the Egyptian regime of Hosni Mubarak." [italics for emphasis]
What chance does this man have? Which only makes this relative silence/ 'calm' all the more unsettling.

The (abusive, corrupt) powers-that-be are a-plotting. That much must be assumed.
I care about a man who is one of the last outspoken and visible bulwarks against encroaching fascist censorship in the West. He is guilty of nothing more than exposing and embarrassing corrupt powers, who now gun for him on the masquerade of the 'War on Terror' and 'state secrets.'

And they will use 'the law' to get at him.

The (relative) silence is deafening.

Do you get my point?

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