That’s also the SSID.
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What an ungrateful, whiny little dick. Ecuador gives him refuge, he treats it like an entitled arsehole and then sues them (or tries to)? Motherfucker.
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I’m not a fan but it’s time to let him out and get him to another country.
Is he going to sue over only having guest access on the router?
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Now in what court will this lawsuit be filed in?
(I am thinking the judge may have a sense of humor and mandate that Julian Assange must file this lawsuit in person.)
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Aaaaand…once again, Malcolm X called it:
If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
Assange literally put his life on the line to inform the world about the crimes and misdemeanors of the world’s most powerful factions, including informing the American people about the behaviors and actions of their own government in their conduct of war (the Iraq War Logs), diplomacy and other foreign behaviors. For this he has been smeared, persecuted, and illegally detained (according to rulings from both the UN and the Interamerican Court of Human Rights, which is the equivalent of the European Court of Human Rights) in the Ecuadorian embassy for SEVEN years, in conditions amounting to solitary confinement & torture. He has been denied necessary medical treatment, and his mental and physical health has deteriorated enormously. Watching the press attack this important publisher so vociferously FOR YEARS while dining out on stories disclosed by Wikileaks has been a real lesson in the partisan hackery of the courtesan press.
ECUADOR GRANTED HIM POLITICAL ASYLUM because, as the subject of the largest Grand Jury investigation in American history Assange clearly faces great danger from the well-documented American system of black site prisons, torture and execution. He can’t just “walk out of that embassy” any more than any other political prisoner under asylum can just “walk out” of their host country. What part of that is unclear?
The slow-motion assassination of a journalist is happening right in the heart of London but people on both sides of the aisle have been convinced by a well-oiled propaganda machine that HE’s the enemy.
SMDH
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He didn’t even bother to name the cat properly-- michi just means “cat” in Quechua. Since he says he hasn’t learned Spanish, much less any of Ecuador’s other languages, during his stay, it’s clear one of the Ecuadorians named it.
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I would simply ask why he hasn’t “faced the music” ? If he’s as innocent as he says, let him go face the charges.
ETA:
Hell, he’s not even being charged anymore. Perhaps this article will open your eyes.
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Also, it’s just rude not to clean up after yourself, especially when your hosts are giving you assylum.
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At the risk of feeding the trolley…
No he hasn’t. He could walk out the door at any moment.
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He may not be “free to leave” but it certainly isn’t the Ecuadorians that are stopping him.
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Yeah. He also is responsible in a large way for Bringing Trump into the White House.
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Great news for Assange! The Saudi Arabian embassy has invited him to stay with them. They assure him he will never need to leave. What a lucky break for him.
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Baltasar Garzón is the guy who had Pinochet holed up in London for some weeks in the 90’s. In Spain, as an investigative judge, he was also instrumental in revealing the GAL, the Spanish government’s illegal death squad against alleged ETA members (they took care of some completely innocent people as well).
He has also been criticized for taking hardline stances and violating human rights himself; he was behind the closure of the Basque newspaper EGIN back in the day, alleging ETA ties.
However, he has also been suing the Spanish government over the Franco government’s human rights violations on behalf of families with relatives who mysteriously “disappeared”.
All in all, he is a quite badass lawyer. Too ambitious and not all that likeable, but badass … he got it.
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Assange is “free to leave” the way anyone under political asylum is “free to leave” their host country. Assange faces the threat of immediate extradition to the U.S. where he could be disappeared into the U.S. black site prison system and tortured like his source Chelsea Manning, or worse…
Here’s a letter written just three days ago by two ranking members of the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs, addressed to Ecuadorian president Lenin Moreno, in which they call Assange, a journalist and publisher, “a dangerous criminal and a threat to global security” who “should be brought to justice.” https://democrats-foreignaffairs.house.gov/_cache/files/a/8/a8a63343-fba7-4ea6-8090-5fb3d9f5d3de/7B8CEDB7545C8C99DEDB0AC0931C9873.10-16-2018-letter-from-engel-ros-lehtinen-to-president-of-ecuador.pdf
Still think this is about that phony “sex crimes” case in Sweden for which HE HAS NEVER EVEN BEEN CHARGED? The emperor has no clothes, folks. The U.S. wants to prosecute Assange for revealing true information in the public interest that shone a giant flashlight on the global misdeeds of the world’s most powerful factions.
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I find this interesting. Assange is an Ecuadorian citizen now, so he may well have certain rights which he otherwise might not have, and I feel it puts this whole thing in a different light. Previously he was being harbored as a guest of the Ecuadorian embassy, and it’s pretty much the height of assholery to sue one’s hosts. However, now he’s an Ecuadorian, I fully support his right to sue his own government to get the support that is rightly due to him as an Ecuadorian citizen. That’s not to say that his case has any merit; I know nothing about Ecuadorian law and have no opinion either way.
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