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Assange's Show Trial

As the tragi- comedy trial of Julian Assange in London wends its way to its inevitable conclusion: (extradition to the United States); the day to day accounts of those few people (noted below in the links) permitted by the Court to view 'proceedings', shows a client British state determined to kowtow to the United States, regardless of the cost to its intended credibility as an upholder of international human rights.

We are reminded of Gilbert & Sullivan's comic-opera, 'Trial by Jury' of Victorian times in its absurdities: from the bombastic prosecutor, to the Judge who chooses to pretend the terrors inflicted by her government simply do not exist,

The contrast between Assange's courage and morals in the face of the "Exceptional Empire", and the duplicity of the mainstream media in either not reporting about the trial or continuing to excuse the depravity of the U.K and U.S. court systems, could not be more complete.

And once Assange is extradited and sent to the Eastern District of Virginia, where thousands of CIA staff are based at Langley, where traditionally "whistleblowers' are tried and prosecuted and sent to jail , we will once again be reminded of those great freedoms we possess in the West- (provided we toe the line).

The longer Assange languishes (and perhaps dies) in some American prison for 'terrorists" ( perhaps he can be sent to Guantanamo Bay so any actions against can be 'extra-judicial'?) the more the United States "Shining City of the Hill will be exposed as the house of horrors it truly is.

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And one last thought. How is it that the great 'democratic' institutions of the U.S. and U.K. government have spent millions on hunting down and imprisoning Assange for reporting the truth about their crimes, and not one dollar or pound has been spent in tracking down, trying and imprisoning those 'patriots' who have engaged in these war crimes by either those governments or their mainstream media?

The current actions of the U.K. and U.S. governments, in trying to suppress and punish Assange and Wikileaks, have demonstrated very clearly that those governments and state apparatus continue to fully support the very genocide, mass murder and torture that Wikileaks has exposed to the world.

Links

https://off-guardian.org/2020/09/01/waiting-for-the-old-bailey-julian-assange-and-britains-judicial-establishment/

https://www.unz.com/pescobar/julian-assange-prometheus-bound/

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-09-04-as-british-judge-made-rulings-against-julian-assange-her-husband-was-involved-with-right-wing-lobby-group-briefing-against-wikileaks-founder/

https://covertactionmagazine.com/2020/09/07/julian-assange-show-trial-resumes-why-the-u-s-government-wants-him-silenced/

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-09-04-as-british-judge-made-rulings-against-julian-assange-her-husband-was-involved-with-right-wing-lobby-group-briefing-against-wikileaks-founder/

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/500083-assange-pilger-court-trial/

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/09/07/assange-extradition-hearing-free-press-trial/

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/09/media-freedom-show-me-the-msm-journalist-opposing-the-torture-of-assange/

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