At Least 17 Assange EDVA Court Filings Unreleased Plus a Sealed Associated Case
Zenaan Harkness
zen at freedbms.net
Fri Apr 12 23:18:07 PDT 2019
On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 01:48:16PM -0400, John Young wrote:
> http://cryptome.org/2019/04/assange-cases.jpg
Caitlin Johnstone does a good summary and general call to action:
How You Can Be Certain That The US Charge Against Assange Is
Fraudulent
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-12/how-you-can-be-certain-us-charge-against-assange-fraudulent
https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/how-you-can-be-certain-that-the-us-charge-against-assange-is-fraudulent-8eb0caa1c4f6
Julian Assange sits in a jail cell today after being betrayed by
the Ecuadorian government and his home country of Australia. A
British judge named Michael Snow has found the WikiLeaks founder
guilty of violating bail conditions, inserting himself into the
annals of history by labeling Assange “a narcissist who cannot
get beyond his own selfish interest.” So that tells you how much
of a fair and impartial legal proceeding we can expect to see
from the British judicial process on this matter.
But the real reason that Assange has been surrendered by the
Ecuadorian government, imprisoned by the British government, and
ignored by the Australian government is not directly related to
any of those governments, but to that of the United States of
America. An unsealed indictment from the Trump administration’s
District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, accompanied
by an extradition request, charges Assange with “conspiracy to
commit computer intrusion for agreeing to break a password to a
classified U.S. government computer” during Chelsea Manning’s
2010 leak of government documents exposing US war crimes.
… [lots a links, quotes etc] …
The Espionage Act has not at this time been employed to prosecute
Assange as many have speculated it might, and the computer crimes
he’s been charged with carry a maximum sentence of five years.
But this does not mean that further far more serious charges
cannot be added once Assange is imprisoned on American soil,
especially after his guilt in the Manning leaks has been made
official government dogma following the conspiracy conviction.
“In my opinion this charging Assange with a lower-level crime
(not espionage) is a trick that would allow the UK to extradite
him to the US with ‘no threat of capital punishment’ only to have
US prosecutors do what they always do: pile on charges,” tweeted
Daniel McAdams of the Ron Paul Liberty Report, referring to
assurances sought by the UK and Ecuador that Assange would not
face the death penalty if extradited to the United States for the
conspiracy charge.
Either way, this is a cataclysmic threat to press freedoms, and
the time to act is now. The US government’s arbitrarily gifting
itself the right to use fraudulent distortions to imprison anyone
in the world who publishes facts about it will chill any attempts
to do so in the future, and poses a far greater threat to press
freedoms than anything we’ve seen in our lives. Anyone who sits
idly by while this happens is signing over the sovereign right of
every human being on this planet to hold power to account, and
anyone calling themselves a journalist who does anything other
than unequivocally oppose this move is confessing that they are a
state propagandist. This is an intolerable plunge toward
Orwellian dystopia, and is an assault on human dignity itself.
It’s time to shake the earth and refuse to let them cross this
line. Enough is enough.
Roar, humans. Roar.
More information about the cypherpunks
mailing list