Julian Assange Arrested on U.S. Extradition Warrant, London Police Say

[acptulsa]

citation?

Fix your sarcasm detector and get back to me.

 

[pcosmar]

I am becoming convinced that most people have no idea what Wikileaks is or does,, and had never heard of Julian Assange before the election.

 

[ATruepatriot]

I am becoming convinced that most people have no idea what Wikileaks is or does,, and had never heard of Julian Assange before the election.

Interesting observation. Most of those involved in the conversation now were only 12 years old when Obama was elected. What could go wrong?

 

[Valli6]

Video: Daniel Ellsberg on Assange's Arrest - 21 minutes long

Ellsberg says they'll probably stack more charges on Assange, which is what they did to him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw8yf6Luwo4

 

[Ender]

No, the indictment does not allege any hacking. The indictment does not even use the word or mention hacking in the indictment.

Even if everything in the indictment is proven, what does it actually allege? It alleges Manning gave Assange an encrypted password to decrypt that Assange did not decrypt.

And it alleges this occurred after Manning already provided all of the documents he had to WikiLeaks.

And it alleges the purpose of the request for decrypting the password was not to hack or obtain information (Manning already had the documents and already gave them to WikiLeaks), but rather so it would be harder to pinpoint Manning as the source.

Further the indictment alleges no activities whatsoever by Assange on US soil or within any US jurisdiction. It never alleges any of his publications or his non-decryption of the decrypted password took place in the USA or its territories. So the empire has no legitimate basis jurisdiction over the foreign journalist Assange's foreign activities.

Lastly, there is nothing new in the indictment whatsoever. All of this is information the empire had back in 2010.

The Obama-Hillary regime and US justice department under the Obama regime (which had far, far, far, far greater motive and reason to target Assange) had already legally concluded that the very same evidence now being used by the Trump Regime does not provided a basis for criminal prosecution of Assange.

The real motive here, is the war against truth. It is vengeance for exposing crimes of the empire. It is to send a message, to silence and chill other journalist who might consider exposing the empire's criminal activities.

Needs repeating!

And:
"If a nation expects to be ignorant & free, in a state of civilisation, it expects what never was & never will be. The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty & property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these but with the people themselves; nor can they be safe with them without information. Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
-Thomas Jefferson-

 

[Anti Globalist]

 

[dannno]

and you really believe he will be allowed to do so?

The people who have been in control obviously don't want him to, but the new crew who is helping Trump take over the deep state might be able to let him.

 

[timosman]

 

[Champ]

Ellsberg says they'll probably stack more charges on Assange, which is what they did to him.

Yes, this is what will likely happen. If and when he arrives in the US, the felony count will swiftly and accordingly rise to ensure to the eyes of the masses that he is a wicked guilty man deserving of all of the inhumane treatment and public ridicule he has so far received.

Pompeo had already been referring to Wikileaks as a "hostile intelligence service" rather than a journalistic organization. There is not going to be any fair consideration or even handed approach of justice for Assange or Wikileaks by the current administration or likely by any future administrations. In the eyes of the elites, these people and organizations need to pay for the damage to the illusion of representative government they have done and to ensure this the charges through the corrupted courts and judicial system will be piled on.

Trump can be a wildcard at times, so anything could happen, but based on the fact that zero globalist deep staters with numerous alleged crimes that warrant basic investigations, have thus far been indicted, would indicate he will not be intervening in this matter as well, boosted by the fact he is playing coy as we speak to the most fundamental question of the existence of Wikileaks. This could change, but right now, it looks very unlikely.

The quicker we realize there are virtually no legal remedies to guarantee our future freedom of the press and liberty, few if any representatives acting in our best interest, and a media that is lying and twisting every piece of evidence to conceal these facts, the better odds we have at reducing the amount of future strife in the rejection and dismantling of the hydra.

 

[Champ]

And nothing says punish the criminals better than Trump the Coward not prosecuting a single one of the hundreds of criminals involved in the scores of crimes exposed by wikileaks and the whistleblowers and others; but instead protecting the criminals (even appointing a few to his regime), sweeping the crimes away, and persecuting the the whistleblower (now for the second time) and the foreign journalist (not even subject to US laws) for exposing the truth of the crimes.

Yeah, the criminals should get time, but unfortunately that won't happen with cowardly Trump protecting the real criminals.

+rep

Trump has an opportunity here to ignore the pleas of all of his advisors, the deep state, and any other bosses that may have influence over him. He knows this, and we are watching what he does carefully. If he goes along with Pompeo and the wishes of the rest of the elites, then it's pretty safe to say we know what his legacy will be. With that being said, it doesn't look good.

 

[AZJoe]

Tucker Carlson: "Julian Assange’s ‘Real Sin’ Was Preventing Hillary Clinton Presidency"

 

[AZJoe]

Jerome Corsi

 

[TER]

Jerome Corsi

“Assange has information that could completely destroy the Russian collusion hoax”

That is exactly why he is being brought to the US.

Godspeed, Julian!

 

[nikcers]

If Assange is found guilty of conspiring with Manning under this indictment, which incorporates the Espionage Act, this will be a blow to the First Amendment. It will criminalize the news-gathering process and will be a precedent for future cases concerning leaks. This will be particularly so since substantially all leaks in the future will be computer-generated.

And so, while the indictment by itself is bad enough, there still is more to come, such as further indictments of Assange. All we are seeing now is the tip of the legal iceberg.

-James C. Goodale was the vice chairman and general counsel of the New York Times and is the author of "Fighting for the Press: The Inside Story of the Pentagon Papers and other battles."

 

[goldenequity]

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Outspoken Ecuadorian ex-president Rafael Correa’s Facebook page blocked — RT World News
https://www.rt.com/news/456366-rafael-correa-facebook-blocked

Rafael Correa

https://twitter.com/MashiRafael/status/1116289091061075968





Ecuador’s Great Betrayal
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/08/ecuador-correa-moreno-alianza-pais

https://twitter.com/AssangeMrs/status/1116289498323668992

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https://twitter.com/talkRADIO/status/1116776004628963328

 

[enhanced_deficit]

WikiLeaks‏@wikileaks · 2 min.
Assange has been arrested in relation to a US extradition request for "conspiracy with Chelsea Manning" for publishing Iraq War Logs, Cablegate, Afghan War Logs, precisely the persecution for which he was granted asylum under the 1951 Refugee Convention in 2012. @unhumanrights

Granted to many this might appear to be yet another MAGA flip flop compared to his pre-election stances, it is possible that when he used the L-word about wikileaks back when he he was self-funding his campaign whereas post-election MAGA policies could be being influelnced by his alleged political slave master (who reportedly happens to be a primo neocon and had called for US to bomb Iran while conversing with controversial Rabbi Shmuley.
One of the various possible plausible explanations of this latest flip-floppish 5D chess move to confuse media or even neocons, Bolton, Pompeo, Iraq war architect Eliot Abrams, Jeffrey Epstein 'sweet dealer' etc in his cabinet? Or could be under pressure from NEXODUS neocons who have joined GOP.


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[nikcers]

This is a true watershed moment. Right now the people who pretend to be journalists and sell fake news to advertisers are cheering on the arrest of a real journalist. Some of the same people that cooked the Russian collusion hoax are now using Russiagate to silence anything that is critical to the military industrial complex. That's what he was telling us with the book he.had when he was arrested.

 

[eleganz]

Put Assange on the stand, thats it.

 

[AZJoe]

This is a true watershed moment. Right now the people who pretend to be journalists and sell fake news to advertisers are cheering on the arrest of a real journalist. Some of the same people that cooked the Russian collusion hoax are now using Russiagate to silence anything that is critical to the military industrial complex. That's what he was telling us with the book he.had when he was arrested.

Yes , to quote Caitlin Johnston - "those journalists who fall on the wrong side of this never intend or intended to do any kind of journalism in their lives. … They are lackeys, bootlickers, mindless repeaters of power, blue-tick propagandists who never ever intend to upset even one of their plutocratic masters. ... their job is to protect power, not to bring it to account. They don’t care because they are not journalists."

 

[AZJoe]

Tom Luongo has a great line summing up the Trump delusion syndrome sufferers that are now defending the persecution of the truth teller Assange (whose exposure of truth helped prevent Hillary from becoming the queen of the empire) as the "moment of healing between the MAGApedes and the Maddow Brigade. Julian Assange is the new Emmanuel Goldstein"