Maybe it was always this bad? Well, for some people it was. But we did have a
semblance of decency once upon a time. Our government wasn't so open about
subverting a country as it is about what it's doing to Venezuela. The income
inequality hasn't been as obvious in my lifetime. The national networks did
actually cover real news sometimes and did allow diverse voices. Or perhaps it
was all a mirage.
I'm truly so angry about what's being done to Julian Assange that I truly don't
know what to do. I see that even Amy Goodman has managed to cover this story as
it should be covered and as she once would have. An extra little tidbit
downloaded to my stream from Democracy Now a while ago about the US charges.
And the charges have to do with that 2010 video of US soldiers shooting Iraqi
civilians, the one that Democracy Now played repeatedly on many programs, the
one that Roiters asked the government for and was refused because the
journalists who were killed were their journalists.
Miriam
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Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2019 11:09 AM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: BREAKING-Moreno Withdraws Asylum as Assange is
Arrested
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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