Free Assange

[Getting Traded]

Just now seeing this, and really you are not as well informed about these issues as you believe.

Assange ended up in the Ecuadorian embassy out of practical necessity. There are specific traditions of South American law that made it the best safe haven for many years. If you watch older movies it is a frequent plot device that people want to escape to Ecuador, Brazil, and Argentina due to the lack of extradition procedures in those countries.

In fact, Assange has attempted to get asylum in Russia - and there was even a proposed exfiltration process to remove him from the embassy for that purpose. One thing to keep in mind is that while countries have a right of exfiltration of their own nationals from Western soil, they do not have the right to exfiltrate foreign citizens. That means any movement from London to Moscow would have to have been conducted secretly.

Two sources:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...sia-ecuador-embassy-london-secret-escape-plan

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/plan-julian-assange-escape-russia/story?id=58134811

Does this make you change your assessment of Assange as an agent of Russian intelligence.

I don't know that this makes him a Russian agent, but I am more apt to believe the Guardian than U.S. media. And we all know that Assange was instrumental in helping Snowden get asylum, so maybe there is something to it. Nevertheless, releasing the information that shows criminal activity by the U.S. government doesn't make him a criminal.

 

[babe]

Where did you get the info that he would kill for the cause and that he was a communist? He was fighting to end apartheid and spent many years in prison for the cause. He didn't kill or have anyone killed, so far as I know.

I think that was all so long ago, and that was what I understood then. I'm probably abjected uninformed on the subject. A lot of people were saying he was communist, promoting "necklacing" with burning rubber tires, etc. I was not there.

I have found that the news that I see on the ground is almost always portrayed in the media with some damn kind of political indoctrination. Don't believe the media much now.

I wish every country had a dozen Julian Assanges capable of getting the news out.

 

[The Thriller]

Speaking of Assange...



Bannon testified yesterday against Roger Stone. In his testimony he cited Stone as being the access point between the trump campaign and Wikileaks, who were publishing emails that Russia stole from the DNC.