Everything Americans believed we were defending against, when we
entered WWII, is now us. We sacrificed so many young lives, and we
devastated the homes and lands of so many people who were also
victims, in order to end Fascism. Only to find ourselves embracing
Fascism, not only in our own Land but encouraging it in nations around
the Globe.
And now the American Empire, through its cohort Briton, finally has
its clutches on Julian Assange. We will be witness to a trial that
will look exactly like the Mock Trials we once denounced. And when
the final verdict is handed down, and Julian Assange is placed in
solitary confinement, the New World Fascists will openly and boldly
and viciously eliminate any remaining vestige of Free Speech.
Then they will sing songs of victory...until their asthmatic,
cancer-ridden throats and lungs can no longer suck in another breath
of the polluted air they have created.
Carl Jarvis
On 4/11/19, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
BREAKING—Moreno Withdraws Asylum as Assange is Arrested
April 11, 2019 • 13 Comments
The WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been arrested after the Ecuadorian
president, Lenin Moreno, withdrew Assange’s asylum, in a move that runs
counter to international asylum law.
WikiLeaks tweeted that Ecuador allowed British police into the London
embassy to arrest Assange at around 10:30 am British time, 5:30 am in
Washington.
This is the moment when Assange was dragged out by police. He was heard to
say, “The UK must resist this….the UK must resist.”
Assange was taken with an arrest warrant for skipping bail when he entered
the Ecuadorian embassy in June 2012, fearing extradition to the United
States, where there is a sealed indictment with his name on it. Assange
lawyer Jennifer Robinson tweeted that he has been arrested for breach of
bail conditions and also because of a request for extradition from the U.S.
Assange was taken a police station and will later be brought to
Magistrate’s
court, according to a tweet from Christine Assange, Julian’s mother.
Former Ecuadorian President Rafael Correrá reacted by calling Moreno the
“greatest traitor in Ecuadorian and Latin American history.”
Full translation: “The greatest traitor in Ecuadorian and Latin American
history, Lenin Moreno, allowed the British police to enter our embassy in
London to arrest Assange. Moreno is a corrupt, but what he has done is a
crime that humanity will never forget.”
Moreno made a national television address to announce his decision. While
the expulsion of a refugee to a country that could harm him for political
reasons, known as refoulement, is against international law, Moreno accused
Assange of “repeated violations to international conventions and daily-life
protocols.”
Unity4J will hold an emergency vigil under the hashtag #FreeJulian
beginning
at noon U.S. Eastern Standard Time that will be webcast live on Consortium
News.
NSA whistleblower Ed Snowden reacted on Twitter:
Journalist and filmmaker John Pilger tweeted:
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