USA re Assange: "First Amendment Doesn't Apply To Foreigners" - [MINISTRY]

[Zenaan Harkness]

"Not even" Australians have legal free speech protection of America's
first amendment, anywhere in the world.

   “We have now learned from submissions and affidavits
    presented by the United States to this court that they do not
    consider foreign nationals to have a First Amendment
    protection,” Hrafnsson said.

   “Now let that sink in for a second,” Hrafnsson continued.

   “At the same time that the US government is chasing journalists
    all over the world, they claim they have extra-territorial reach,
    they have decided that all foreign journalists which include many
    of you here, have no protection under the First Amendment of the
    United States. So that goes to show the gravity of this case.
    This is not about Julian Assange, it’s about press freedom.”

      "It's about press freedom" Wikileaks editor explains
      foreign journalists have no 1st amd protections
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwK1tPdaHkY




  WikiLeaks Editor: US Is Saying First Amendment Doesn't
  Apply To Foreigners In Assange Case
  https://www.zerohedge.com/political/wikileaks-editor-us-saying-first-amendment-doesnt-apply-foreigners-assange-case
  https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2020/01/23/wikileaks-editor-us-is-saying-first-amendment-doesnt-apply-to-foreigners-in-assange-case/

    ...
    Hrafnsson’s very newsworthy claim has as of this writing received
    no mainstream news media coverage at all. The video above is from
    independent reporter Gordon Dimmack.
    https://gordondimmack.com/

    This prosecutorial strategy would be very much in alignment with
    remarks made in 2017 by then-CIA Director Mike Pompeo.

        “Julian Assange has no First Amendment freedoms. He’s sitting
        in an embassy in London. He’s not a U.S. citizen,” Pompeo
        told the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
        https://www.csis.org/analysis/discussion-national-security-cia-director-mike-pompeo

    That, like nearly every sound which emits from Pompeo’s amorphous
    face, was a lie. The First Amendment is not a set of special free
    speech privileges that the US government magnanimously bestows
    upon a few select individuals, it’s a limitation placed upon the
    US government’s ability to restrict rights that all persons
    everywhere are assumed to have.

    This is like a sex offender who’s barred from living within 500
    yards of a school claiming that the school he moved in next to is
    exempt because it’s full of immigrants who therefore aren’t
    protected by his restriction. It’s a restriction placed on the
    government, not a right that is given to certain people.

    Attorney and Future of Freedom Foundation president Jacob
    Hornberger explained after Pompeo’s remarks, “As Jefferson points
    out, everyone, not just American citizens, is endowed with these
    natural, God-given rights, including life, freedom, and the
    pursuit of happiness. That includes people who are citizens of
    other countries. Citizenship has nothing to do rights that are
    vested in everyone by nature and God. At the risk of belaboring
    the obvious, that includes Julian Assange.”
    https://www.fff.org/2017/04/27/cia-director-pompeo-doesnt-understand-first-amendment/

    ...
    Journalist Glenn Greenwald, who is himself now being legally
    persecuted by the same empire as Assange under an indictment
    which Hrafnsson in the aforementioned statement called “almost a
    carbon copy of the indictment against Julian Assange”, also
    denounced Pompeo’s 2017 remarks.
    https://youtu.be/YwK1tPdaHkY?t=60
    https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/the-empires-war-on-oppositional-journalism-continues-to-escalate-5dc6bf3b1331

        “The notion that WikiLeaks has no free press rights because
        Assange is a foreigner is both wrong and dangerous,”
        Greenwald wrote at the time.

        “When I worked at the Guardian, my editors were all
        non-Americans. Would it therefore have been constitutionally
        permissible for the U.S. Government to shut down that paper
        and imprison its editors on the ground that they enjoy no
        constitutional protections? Obviously not.”

    Greenwald, who is a former litigation attorney, referenced a
    Salon article he’d written in 2010 skillfully outlining why
    Senator Susan Collins’ attempts to spin constitutional rights as
    inapplicable to foreigners would be outlandish, insane, illegal
    and unconstitutional to put into practice.
    https://www.salon.com/control/2010/02/01/collins_5/

        “To see how false this notion is that the Constitution only
        applies to U.S. citizens, one need do nothing more than read the
        Bill of Rights,” Greenwald argued in 2010. “It says nothing about
        ‘citizens.’  To the contrary, many of the provisions are simply
        restrictions on what the Government is permitted to do (‘Congress
        shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion . . .
        or abridging the freedom of speech’; ‘No soldier shall, in time
        of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the
        owner’).  And where rights are expressly vested, they are
        pointedly not vested in ‘citizens,’ but rather in ‘persons’ or
        ‘the accused’ (‘No person shall . . . . be deprived of life,
        liberty, or property, without due process of law’; ‘In all
        criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a
        speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and
        district wherein the crime shall have been committed . . . . and
        to have the assistance of counsel for his defense’).”

        “The U.S. Supreme Court, in 2008, issued a highly publicized
        opinion, in Boumediene v. Bush, which, by itself, makes clear
        how false is the claim that the Constitution applies only to
        Americans,” Greenwald wrote. “The Boumediene Court held that
        it was unconstitutional for the Military Commissions Act to
        deny habeas corpus rights to Guantanamo detainees, none of
        whom was an American citizen (indeed, the detainees were all
        foreign nationals outside of the U.S.).  If the Constitution
        applied only to U.S. citizens, that decision would obviously
        be impossible.”

    “The principle that the Constitution applies not only to
    Americans, but also to foreigners, was hardly invented by the
    Court in 2008,” Greenwald added.

        “To the contrary, the Supreme Court — all the way back in
        1886 — explicitly held this to be the case, when, in Yick Wo
        v. Hopkins, it overturned the criminal conviction of a
        Chinese citizen living in California on the ground that the
        law in question violated his Fourteenth Amendment rights to
        due process and equal protection.  In so doing, the Court
        explicitly rejected what Susan Collins and many others claim
        about the Constitution.”

    These “and many others” Greenwald referred to would now include
    both Mike Pompeo and the Department of Justice prosecutors who
    are attempting to extradite and imprison Assange for publishing
    information exposing US war crimes.

    ...



On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 10:31:18AM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> As per Subject:
> 
>   "Free Speech Has NO ZONE In America!"
>   #BigGovSucks #FreeTheFirst
>   pic.twitter.com/tfB3eNVxN9
>   — Turning Point USA (@TPUSA) November 9, 2019
>   https://twitter.com/TPUSA/status/1193177160539762688
> 
> 
> THIS is "Turning Point USA" or "Talking Points USA" or "Think Pad
> Update Services Association", aka
> 
> 
>   Shut it down, Inc.
> 
> 
> What else could we possibly expect from (((Ben Shapiro-ju)))?
> 
> Literally no one could have predicted this.