Assange persecuted by Judge Arbuthnot with her prima facie conflict of interest, refuses to recuse herself -- Re: Galloway …has campaigned tirelessly for Assange’s freedom - [PEACE]

Mon Jan 6 05:11:33 PST 2020

Assange in limbo still.

To cheer us up, George Galloway in reasonably audible, and even
subtitled, English :)

  George Galloway _ Another 5 years of majority Tory govt led by BoJo
  not going to be nice to look at
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EorWLykgxo
  ~1:27

    "The Russians are coming!"
    ...

On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 11:19:25PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> An open request to the Queen of England and Great Britain:
> 
>   If you, our Queen of England and Great Britain and its dominions,
>   have any power left within your authority as Queen, please do
>   exercise such power as is required to right this great injustice
>   summarized below, this blight of such clear and self evident
>   conflicts of interest and of injustice under the auspices of your
>   authority, exercised against Julian Assange.
> 
>   Humbly,
>   Those who seek the upholding of justice and righteousness in this,
>   our shared world
> 
> 
> … This statement by [Judge Emma Arbuthnot] captures the
> Alice-in-Wonderland quality of the judicial persecution of Assange.
> She dismisses as unreasonable Assange’s fears that if he voluntarily
> left the Ecuadorian Embassy he would be arrested by British police
> and extradited to the United States because he did not appear in
> court to express them. And yet, [Judge Emma Arbuthnot] is now
> presiding over [Julian Assange's] extradition trial. …
> 
> 
> 
> The Coming Show Trial Of Julian Assange
> https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-22/coming-show-trial-julian-assange
> 
>   Authored by Chris Hedges via Truthdig,
>   https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-coming-show-trial-of-julian-assange/
> 
>   ...
>   The judge, Emma Arbuthnot, cut him off, saying “this is not the
>   time to go into this.”
> 
>   Commenting in 2018 when Assange’s lawyers requested that the
>   warrant for his arrest be dropped, Arbuthnot said, “I accept that
>   Mr. Assange had expressed fears of being returned to the United
>   States from a very early stage in the Swedish extradition
>   proceedings but, absent any evidence from Mr. Assange on oath, I do
>   not find that Mr. Assange’s fears were reasonable,”
> 
>   This statement by the judge captures the Alice-in-Wonderland
>   quality of the judicial persecution of Assange. She dismisses as
>   unreasonable Assange’s fears that if he voluntarily left the
>   Ecuadorian Embassy he would be arrested by British police and
>   extradited to the United States because he did not appear in court
>   to express them. And yet, she is now presiding over his extradition
>   trial.
> 
>   This circular logic is not the only disturbing aspect of Judge
>   Arbuthnot’s overseeing of the Assange case. She is married to James
>   Arbuthnot, who sits in the House of Lords, is a British
>   Conservative Party politician, was the minister of state at the
>   Ministry of Defense and for nine years was the chairman of the
>   Defense Select Committee in the House of Commons, a committee that
>   oversees the operation of the Ministry of Defense and the armed
>   forces. Arbuthnot, who was reprimanded while a member of Parliament
>   for diverting public funds to maintain his two homes, is a director
>   at SC Strategy, established by John Scarlett, the former head of
>   the British foreign intelligence service MI6. The politician also
>   is on the advisory board of Thales UK, a huge arms manufacturer
>   whose corrupt business practices, which included massive bribes to
>   heads of state in exchange for arms contracts, were exposed when
>   some of its internal documents were published by WikiLeaks.
> 
>   The judge “has a strong conflict of interest,” Melzer said from
>   Vienna when I interviewed him by video link for my television show,
>   “On Contact.” “Her husband had been exposed by WikiLeaks.”
> 
>   Assange’s lawyers have asked the judge to recuse herself. She has
>   refused.
>   ...
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 04:54:58PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> >   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
> > > )