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    Re: Julian Assange: COVID Risks and Campaigns for Pardon Archived Message

    Posted by margo on December 14, 2020, 4:24 pm, in reply to "Julian Assange: COVID Risks and Campaigns for Pardon"

    Still not sure why an Australian publisher who was working in Europe and did no more or less than Guardian and NYT journalists did (publishing material) - and who faces NO charges at present - should have to beg the USA for 'pardon'?

    The US DoJ has made it clear that its First Amendment does NOT apply to foreigners, while its draconian Espionage Act DOES.
    All that remains for the USA to open THAT trapdoor for anyone, anywhere, whose inconvenient fact-sharing embarrasses the US, is for the USA to formally set the Assange Precedent on January 4, with the help of UK Judge Vanessa Baraitser (member of a privileged expat South African family).

    Why should Assange have to ask for a pardon when it is he who has been abused? Kidnapped by goons after Ecuador illegally* breached his asylum, then held hostage on behalf of the USA**, subjected to a show trial plagued by procedural abuse, pending rendition to an American gulag?

    This Assange case starts to smell more like an industrial sabotage case: Wikileaks threatened the billion-dollar armaments industries with war theatre exposures, so CEO Assange is taken hostage and held over a barrel to force Wikileaks to withdraw and wind down.

    Remember the French businessman jailed for years in USA after secret indictments were unwrapped? The guy wrote a book: "Le Piège Américain" ("The American trap")

    * illegal in terms of Ecuador's own constitution and also against international asylum laws

    ** held hostage in defiance of the international principle of Non-Refoulement, which states that asylees cannot be returned to the countries which hound them. Assange had perfectly legal Ecuador asylum, but the UK denied him safe passage from Belmarsh to Healthrow. Assange is thus hounded by both US and UK - and yet is detained by UK, at US behest, which flies brazenly in the face of Non-Refoulement, as top law expert Alfred De Zayas points out, backed by Glasgow University international law lecturer Prof Nils Melzer who says "there is no legal basis" for this ongoing gagging and incarceration taking place in London.




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