Malcolm Evans – Assange Scales of Justice

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1. Open letter from leading ethical members of society to Australian Pm Scott Morrison. Will they have any impact on the rancid compost heap that is the long-term Australian government.
   https://asiapacificreport.nz/2020/03/04/defend-beleagured-rights-of-wikileaks-founder-assange-call-to-morrison/

   The USA has no rules for itself governing good conduct; why should Assange be treated inhumanly in this witchhunt for not following the rules of utter secrecy of what that country has been up to. They would no doubt like to deliver him to their penal system of – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition.
   https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/wilkie-says-assange-extradition-efforts-should-be-dropped-after-us-spying-revelations-20200223-p543j3.html
   24 Feb 2020 The revelation Julian Assange’s confidential conversations with his Australian lawyers were secretly recorded should force the British courts to throw out attempts to extradite him to the United States, independent MP Andrew Wilkie says.
   Mr Wilkie has again called on Prime Minister Scott Morrison to lobby the British government to reject the United States attempts to extradite Australian-born WikiLeaks founder who faces several espionage charges over the publication of hundreds of thousands of confidential government documents.

   (Interesting that the vote split for the aAustralian Liberal/National government over Labour is very close. This is an example of the way we run our democracies needing to be severely overhauled. The Brits in the rambling Brexit debacle showed how stupid it is to consider a simple majority an adequate mandate for the complexities of government. And I noted on listening again to Pythons Anarchist Commune skit, that their rules required a two-thirds majority for affairs that were not just simple internal matters. Frankly I think that Monty Python members would make a better job of running the UK; their work shows them to be really astute. You have to understand a system well to satirise it so effectively. Once it got going over there we would have some leverage to follow it here. Or could that thing about us being small and eager to be the first and biggest – with Trump-like narcissism enable us to do the break-through.)

   Note the make-up of government from last election in Australia: Liberal/National – Last election 76 seats, 50.36% to Labour 69 seats, 49.64%.
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Australian_federal_election
   Our democratic political systems are so shonky at present, they are ruining the countries they are used in. In fact they are kindergarten systems for including all people in decision making, on their last legs, and should have been overhauled decades ago. Attention to improvements should be given as soon as possible, before sterner measures bring in oppressive systems where people are entirely coerced!)

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