Assange ruling a crushing blow to democracy and journalism

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UK court permits Julian Assange extradition to US on spying charges

A British appellate court opened the door on Friday for Julian Assange to be extradited to the United States by overturning a lower court ruling that found the WikiLeaks founder’s mental health was too fragile to withstand the American criminal justice system.

The High Court in London ruled that US assurances were enough to guarantee Assange would be treated humanely and directed a lower court judge to send the extradition request to the home secretary for review. The home secretary, who oversees law enforcement in the UK, will make the final decision on whether to extradite Assange.

However, the appellate court ruling handed down Friday is likely to be appealed.

Most NZ Media rooms are now slavish cowards to the woke social media lynch mob, and the Woke’s denigration of Assange as a rapist means any coverage in NZ must be deplatformed and never spoken of.

Incredibly Nicky Hager’s astounding witness evidence given in the show trail against Assange was utterly ignored by the NZ media.

New Zealand’s most famous Investigative Journalist gives witness evidence in the journalism trial of the century and all you hear are crickets in NZ?

It’s astounding watching it up close because normally Hager’s work is championed by the Woke, it’s fascinating seeing him deplatformed by NZ mainstream media’s self censorship for fear of triggering a woke lynch mob.

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This type of cowardly journalism’s irony is poignant because of course Assange is one of the most important voices in real journalism.

Without his work the war crimes, the murders, the abuses of power that damage all the people those Woke claim to care about would never have seen the light of day.

This stopped being about Justice a long time ago.

What a bitter day for democracy and journalism!

 

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18 COMMENTS

  1. Until all the evidence is fairly presented, without any pressures from any societal group, justice has not occurred.

  2. Assange’s fate is a test for the left. Those who cannot recognise that the US is the No 1 global terrorist and Assange was instrumental in exposing this fact in its invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, are not of the left but rather rightist lackeys of servile capitalist regimes lining up for imperialist war.

    The woke left have sold their principles to the Labour regime which will not resist any of the demands put upon it by finance capital to let the market rule and to hell with humanity. It will not oppose the US pushing for a showdown with China and Russia and their allies like Iran.

    Driven to war by a terminal crisis, destroying nature, erasing women, using Covid to isolate and attack workers’ resistance, punish whistleblowers, and target refugees, these regimes are marching towards fascism.

    There is only one way to smash fascism and overthrow the rotting capitalist system and that is for workers to unite in defence of their rights, to organise globally to take power, remove the ultimate cause of the destruction, repression and oppression, and return to nature and society living in harmony.

    • Dave Brown when you turn the actions of gummint to insist on vaccination into a crime against humanity you show that you are lacking in reason and unable to find balance when it comes to the scales of justice. You lose credibility with people seeking the vital mixture of kindness and practicality – without mentioning morality ethics etc, It shows a lack of balance so needed these days of information and education – not chaotic turbulent mind explosions.

      • Your comment is a projection because a lot of good, if not debatable points, were raised here, but it only took one of these points to tip your scales….

  3. Assange is as open to a fair court trial as anyone. As I understand it he wouldn’t face his accusers in Sweden, our citadel of demo-cratic ideals. And he was careless about actual lives publishing his good releases about the American plutocracy.

    You dinna need to be fiery about everything, Martyn — there’s enough to go around via reality ( the people and science’s foundation). Don’t fire up like a soldering iron at every headline — it does shit all good to the people’s cause.

    • Get your head out of the sand sumsuch. Assange is being crucified because he has held power to account, and that power is the US of A which cannot tolerate it’s dirty secrets being exposed. Please read Dave Browns comment above for the truth

      • Sumsuch’s “understanding” is either dumb or dishonest ,,,, as he regurgitates two strands of factually incorrect smears ,,,among the dozens of lies used,,,, in the orchestrated character assassination of Julian Assange.

        Sumsuch is a living example of how effective the litany of lies against Assange were / are. … as he continues to spread them ,,, because he is either pig ignorant (dumb ) ,,, or dishonest.

        Nicky Hager who worked for /with Assange ,,,, using his knowledge to redact New Zealanders names on leaked NZ documents,, cables ,, e-mails etc.

        As Nicky Hagers work in REDACTING names ,,,and his testimony at Julian Assanges extradition Kangaroo court ,,, Wikileaks put a great deal of effort in not putting peoples lives at risk ,,,,

        Unlike the war criminals exposed by Wikileaks ,,,such as Clinton, Cameron , Obama etc,etc ,,, and the mass deaths and war crimes committed in our illegal invasions / wars of aggression / starvation sanctions.,,, again revealed and exposed by Wikileaks.

        Those who are dishonest and fear normal good people knowing the truth ,,,, Hate Assange.

        Nicky Hager refutes and explains the character assassination of Assange in this video here

        Nicky Hager on the Trial of Julian Assangehttps://youtu.be/6hoRa9QP8CA?t=484

        Dave Brown ,,, ILCS ,, and garibaldi are all 100% correct.

        Another example of the criminal degeneration from our western Governments,, and the road we are on ,would be the banana republic justice system used to lock up Steven Donziger,,,,,,, the human rights and environmentalist lawyer serving a six month prison sentence for successfully suing Chevron for poisoning the water in the Ecuadorian Amazon.

        the video to teed start when Lucy Lawless is guest speaking ,,, https://youtu.be/6g4xWtlKUAU?t=1913

        Free Assange and Donziger ,,, The Usa is a fucking disgrace ,,,

        • He didna trust the Swedish court system? And he wasn’t careless about individual lives in his releases? Fuck off says a social democrat.

    • “As I understand it he wouldn’t face his accusers in Sweden” your understanding is wrong sumsuch. Assange was questioned by Swedish Police at the time of the complaint. There never was a RAPE complaint. The Swedish prosecutor Marian Nye made the rape complaint after Assange had been questioned and released by the Swedish police. He then returned to England a free man. And the rest is History. Aussie tv show Four Corners covered ALL OF THIS in great journalistic detail at the time. No NZ media have ever picked up on this they are fucking useless and utter grovelers with all the intellectual heft of a set of ping pong balls. The CIA set out to smear every male member of Wikileaks as rapists ( which they have succeeded in doing)and the dumbarse woke brained fuckwits of the chattering classes lapped it up.This was a very basic psy-ops campaign. Sweden has been the USA’s lackey forever. Sweden has always collaborated with fascist political powers throughout history. Prime example being Nazi Germany. The Swedes are loathed and utterly distrusted by their fellow Scandinavians. Their idiotic arrogance is legendary e.g their Covid management.Sweden was the main rendition handover site for American torture operations in Kazakhstan , Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan during the Irag invasion and Afghanistan invasion. You don’t know shit sumsuch.

  4. You’re quite right Bomber. This all just goes to show how deeply into the mire of mediocrity we have all sunk.
    Are there any thinking people still out there?

  5. George Orwell wrote “The further a Society drifts from the Truth, the more it will hate those who speak it” & “In a time of Universal Deceit, speaking the Truth is a Revolutionary Act”? Never have these two quotes been more true, than in the case of Julian Assange, a Journalist who exposed the murderous & genocidal War crimes of the United States of America & is now paying the price for it! America is a satanic, corrupt, evil & rapacious Oligarchic Empire that’s masquerading as a Democracy & believes that it is so EXCEPTIONAL, that it is above International Law as mandated by the UN! That’s why you always hear them use the term “Rules based Order” which is code for America makes the Rules & everyone must follow, OR ELSE! The Nazi’s where tried in the Hague for their War Crimes & acts of genocide & HANGED but America & its Serial Killer Presidents & Leaders has got away with mass murder & genocide without consequences, killing millions, overthrowing numerous legitimate Govts & Nations & waging illegal Wars! Since its inception as a Nation in 1776, America has only experienced 20 yrs of peace, America has engaged in continuous Warfare for most of its History! But the time is running out for this murderous Empire, it’s in massive decline & facing a extinction level event with the rise of China & Russia. Hence the reason why you are seeing the huge Propaganda & gaslighting agenda such as the recent Democracy Conference with a declining US trying to rally support? A massive CIA Campaign to demonise & destroy China & its reputation is now being actioned because China is now a peer Competitor to the US so they are creating this phoney Urghur crisis & causing trouble with boycotting the Winter Olympics over Human rights, as if they ever cared about others Human rights, what hypocrites & then theirs US meddling in Russia with the Ukraine rubbish! Assange & others like him, who exposed America’s endless Wars & Genocidal criminality must be silenced because they are exposing this Nation for what it is, a murderous Mafia run Empire! But the more it cracks down, the more its mask is being removed & no one is fooled by American deviousness anymore, that genie can’t be put back into the Bottle? Thanks to people like Assange, a Journalist Hero for the Truth, whose exposed the criminality of America & its Client Nations, putting them under the spotlight & exposing their previously kept in the dark War crimes & bringing them to the light!

  6. He didna trust the Swedish court system? And he wasn’t careless about individual lives in his releases? Fuck off says a social democrat.

    • Lets not forget that this extradition has nothing to do with what happened in Sweden. And lets not forget also, that nothing, absolutely nothing that Wikileaks has published has proven to be wrong. Now, given the reams of information they deal with, reckless is the last word that we can associate Wikileaks with.

  7. Que the next legal appeal in this never-ending-saga?

    America should just give it up already! When his plane lands in the States they [America] should Reverse-501 him and deport Assange back to Australia.

    While Assange’s flight is en route, ALL countries he holds citizenship to could revoke such citizenship behind Australia’s back, therefore forcing Australia to take him.. a Reverse-501-Revoke if you will. That would be HA-larious !!

    Ok.. I’m being a bit silly, but hey.. stranger things really do happen every day. Also I don’t know if he still holds Australian citizenship, last I heard the Aussies weren’t keen.

    Assange has suffered enough. Yet the American State seems determined to grind him into the ground.

    Edward Snowden was a lot more considered with his leaking, there is no doubt Snowden is a hero and very considered.. even intelligence agencies have respect for him.

    WikiLeaks had an editorial process, but I imagine with the volume of information leaked, at some point a credible argument for treason could be made. Certainly WikiLeaks has embarrass powerful people and governments.

    I haven’t followed Assange in depth, I can’t know the consequences of his activities at WikiLeaks, both Good or Bad. I think Assange has done a great service for humanity, shining a light on what happens in darkness.

    More journalists should come to his aid. He’s suffered enough, just exile him to Australia already, he needs the vitamin-D.

  8. This travesty shows us all that democracy, justice and journalism, just to name a few examples, are at the mercy of the powerful. Why oh why we hold such faith in these ‘mechanisms’ of the powerful, in this day and age, is beyond me…

  9. Speaking truth to power has unleashed the monster that lies beneath the surface of our counterfeit civilised society.
    Julian Assange has shamefully been abandoned by many of his profession.
    History should judge this travesty with the profound disgust that it deserves but the corrupt managers who orchestrate our lives can manipulate, distort and pay to write history whichever way they f…… well like.
    Free Julian Assange.

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