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How mendacious can you be.

Posted by ceemac666 <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=ceemac666' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 26, 2024, 1:28 am

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-69145409

That's interesting, blow by blow stuff, from the Saipan courthouse. Thankx. nm

Posted by Der <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Der' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 26, 2024, 3:00 am, in reply to "How mendacious can you be."

3am our time. Prosecution withdraws extradition request. A huge moment! nm

Posted by Der <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Der' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 26, 2024, 3:04 am, in reply to "That's interesting, blow by blow stuff, from the Saipan courthouse. Thankx. nm"

US gov agrees not to pursue any other prosecutions.

Posted by Der <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Der' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 26, 2024, 3:07 am, in reply to "3am our time. Prosecution withdraws extradition request. A huge moment! nm"

Judge wishes Assange an early happy birthday.

The judge reiterates that the US government has agreed not to pursue any other prosecutions and then wraps up.

Assange smiles as she wishes him an early happy birthday (he turns 53 next week), saying she hopes he starts his new life with that positive note.

Judge says she would not have accepted the plea deal a decade ago.

Posted by Der <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Der' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 26, 2024, 3:20 am, in reply to "US gov agrees not to pursue any other prosecutions."

"Judge Manglona said that if the case was brought before her a decade ago, she would not have accepted the plea deal. But the situation in 2024 is quite different, she said."

American election?

Assange not taking questions. Damn right. Feck the media knuts. nm

Posted by Der <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Der' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 26, 2024, 3:22 am, in reply to "Judge says she would not have accepted the plea deal a decade ago."

Assange lawyer thanks Aus PM Albanese "for his advocacy and making Assange's release possible". nm

Posted by Der <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Der' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 26, 2024, 3:28 am, in reply to "Assange not taking questions. Damn right. Feck the media knuts. nm"

Re: How mendacious can you be.

Posted by RaskolnikovX <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Raskolnikov' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 26, 2024, 6:14 am, in reply to "How mendacious can you be."

Quite a lot apparently.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2024/jun/25/martin-rowson-on-the-price-of-freedom-for-julian-assange-cartoon

Check out the, soon closed, comments.

Lots of "He should have been sent to Russia", "If you can't do the time, don't do the crime", "I Don't trust him" type of comments and my "favourite" which is either a misplaced attempt at humour or a complete fucking idiot:

"Assange? Isn't he the guy who worked with Putin and Farage to get Trump elected?

What a hero!"

Always hard to tell how many of those comments are astro-turfed/botted but in this case you hope it's most of them as having people out there who STILL think like this is a scary thing.

...no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party...So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.

and, sadly, even worse

on their "main" article, the boot-lickers are in full force. Unbelievable.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/25/julian-assange-wikileaks-press-freedom-biden-administration#comments

...no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party...So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.

much much worse

Jesus. Actually reading through those comments rather than just skimming them is an infuriating exercise.

These people are demented. It's astonishing to see how the propaganda works although a lot of these people don't need to be pushed very far, if at all, to get them where they want them.

Incredible.

...no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party...So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.

It is astonishing...

Posted by Ken Waldron <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Ken+Waldron' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 26, 2024, 8:02 am, in reply to "much much worse"

That these chumps have watched all the way through the trumped up Swedish accusations, the UK submission to US extra-territorial legal authority, the subjection of a man who poses no danger whatsoever to the public to isolation in a tiny cell in a high security jail, the endless perverse shenanigans of UK courts and governments to keep him there for years on the sole UK crime of jumping bail on charges that never were...and yet the chumps are still whittering on in the Guardian about how very important "the rule of law" is.

After all the above...it's delusional. Can they not see that the "rule of law" they claim to respect has been cogently dismantled before their eyes in this very case and shown to be little more than a thin veneer of supposed rules which mask the fact that raw power decides: not truth, not law, not the fucking Magna Carta? That law ultimately does what it is told by the powerful?
When the charge is, as here, revealing the crimes of the self same powerful, then the pretence of impartial law and independent judiciary quickly becomes a self evident charade.

I suppose there are implications to admitting the obvious..that our law is as corrupt as our politics, that the entire system is a threadbare fraud & that the king has no clothes...so they must pretend very,very hard...not to know.

"The Law is Capitalism's Mask and Ally" (Anonymous) nm

Posted by Der <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Der' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 26, 2024, 8:07 am, in reply to "It is astonishing..."

Btl, nbg

Posted by Keith-264 <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Keith-264' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 26, 2024, 8:12 am, in reply to "much much worse"

I wouldn't worry too much about btl, especially in the Graun, I doubt that more than 10 per cent of them are genuine.

The last working-class hero in England.

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