British courts refuse to comply with Spanish request: Brand UK takes another diveArchived Message
Posted by margo on October 23, 2019, 12:21 pm
British courts are refusing to comply with requests (usually honoured automatically in European system) to have Assange questioned as a witness in the Spanish-CIA spying case - where CIA live feeds in the Ecuador Embassy unlawfully breached lawyer-client and doctor-client privilege. Not only were Assange's own confidential legal and medical conversations transmitted to Virginia, but all conversations of all visitors which included famous and wealthy figures, whose phones were also illegally hacked after they were forced to hand them in at the Embassy door. Any number of lawsuits could flow from this, no wonder the USUK is stalling.
USUK is in a panic:this is clear. Now is not the time to be quiet. Keep sharing the facts.
That invaluable snapshot of unnamed Americans sending information to the bench in a London court yesterday (provided by Craig Murray) is evidence the British judiciary is US-captured.
Britons may think this is no big deal but many Commonwealth citizens - brought up with propaganda and lectures about British justice being exemplary, way better than America,etc - are shocked. Eyes are opening. It's not Queen and Country, anymore... it's Queen Elizabeth, CIA Gina and Country. If the UK loses its sovereignty, the Royal Sovereign loses her sovereignty too. (remember Assange saying: "The UK has no sovereignty" as he was renditioned out of the Ecuador Embassy, in violation of the non-refoulement law?)
Britain stands to lose any remaining respect and gravitas within its own Commonwealth ... this is the risk Brand UK takes with this overt US-submissive behaviour. They seem to think this behaviour is risk-free because they've been doing it undercover for ages and British people are docile about it - but it's not risk free on a bigger stage, as it all becomes more overt and obvious. Masks are off and the propagandists will have to work even harder. USUK propagandists have loved the good-cop-bad-cop routine with the UK as respectable and the US as the louts. With the Assange litmus test (remember Assange specifically describing himself as "the litmus test"?) the cigarette paper has fallen away and boundaries have blurred. Has the UK properly game-planned the way forward from here?
Britain is damaging its own soft power with each day that passes. If Assange dies in UK custody, the optics will be even worse. Assange clearly said in court this week "I fear for my life": it's on record now. A dead Assange will be an even bigger blight and poison legacy for the UK. Australian-UK relations?
If UK is awake to risk management, it will liase with the 11 Australian MPS who today formed an official cross-parliamentary Assange committee - and get an unwell Assange on a plane home to Australia (ie. deported) as swiftly as possible.
For its own sake and its sovereign brand, the sooner the UK draws a curtain on this, the better.
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Translation:
“United Kingdom makes it difficult for a Spanish judge to interrogate Assange for espionage suffered in London”
“The magistrate defends that Spain is competent in the case and that the British attitude is unprecedented.”