Galloway …has campaigned tirelessly for Assange’s freedom - [PEACE]
Zenaan Harkness
zen at freedbms.net
Fri Jun 14 23:54:58 PDT 2019
Extradition order to send Assange to US poses existential threat
to all truth seekers – Galloway
https://www.rt.com/news/461759-assange-galloway-extradition-uk-us/
Julian Assange’s extradition to the US would be a deathblow for
all truth seekers, George Galloway told RT, warning that anyone
who fails to support Assange will one day share the same fate as
the persecuted Wikileaks co-founder.
Britain’s Home Secretary Sajid Javid revealed on Thursday that
he had signed a request for the extradition of Assange to the
US, where he is accused of violating the Espionage Act. The
order will go before the UK courts on Friday.
Galloway, a former MP who has campaigned tirelessly for
Assange’s freedom, quipped that the “dark” episode shows that
Theresa May’s “zombie” government was “not content with all the
other disasters for which it’s responsible.”
He insisted that Assange’s supporters would “never give up” the
fight to stop his extradition to the US and secure his safe
release from UK custody.
Failing to support Assange now will have disastrous consequences
for journalism and all who profess to hold progressive values,
Galloway warned. He expressed particular discontent with those
who would have ordinarily protested Assange’s treatment at the
hands of the UK authorities, but remained silent because the
Wikileaks co-founder was accused of sexual misconduct – what
Galloway decried as a politically-motivated smear.
The liberals and the progressives, as they describe
themselves, they will one day be a victim of this tyranny
themselves, that is unless they eventually give up any
pretense of actually being liberals and actually being
progressives.
Asked about what would happen if Assange is ultimately
extradited, Galloway said that the consequences for allowing such
an injustice would be devastating.
“Every truth seeker will go down if Julian goes down.”
Assange faces a litany of charges in the US, including one count
of conspiring with Chelsea Manning, the former intelligence
analyst and whistleblower, to gain access to the US Pentagon
network. The Australian journalist is currently serving a 50-week
prison sentence in the UK for jumping bail.
Journalists silent on Assange’s plight are complicit in his
torture and imprisonment
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/461509-journalists-media-assange-wikileaks/
On Sat, Jul 09, 2016 at 11:38:14AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> The wheels of "democracy" when it works, when someone with heart,
> patience, tenacity and a strong sense of justice (a mighty lot to ask,
> so we can be very grateful for this man of principal) such as George
> Galloway, is an event worth witnessing, given how rare such events are.
>
> George Galloway you have been vindicated. Thank you for speaking so
> clearly.
>
> "Mr Blair: This Is For Iraq (Video)"
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVNmy5-2va8
>
> (Youtube link also here:
> http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/mr-blair-iraq/ri15485
> )
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