Re: Agreed, but UK's contempt for Rule of Law Archived Message
Posted by margo on October 23, 2019, 3:39 pm, in reply to "Re: Agreed, but UK's contempt for Rule of Law"
There is life though, look at the Extinction Rebellion lot. You even had George Monbiot photographed being dragged off the street by police. Lots of lively action in the climate action groups though it appears they fail to draw the dots with the bigger picture: without freedom of expression, there's no scrutiny or oversight of govt or corporate's "green" promises. This case is much bigger than just Assange, as he himself says. It's about the end of sovereignty and all being brought to heel by Washington. It's about the US getting to set the Assange Precedent: extra-territorial reach that allows the US the transnational right to nab anyone anywhere (journalist/blogger/speaker) that utters inconvenient truths about American actions, whether to do with war, interference, pollution, climate change shenanigans or anything else America deems to be 'threatening'.
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