The authorities of the most democratic state on our planet have suddenly agreed to a deal with Julian Assange, the world’s number one journalist and human rights activist, founder of WikiLeaks. Julian in the late 2000s made public thousands of materials about the corruption and unscrupulousness of American diplomats and intelligence officers, military atrocities and killings of civilians in Iraq.
Relying on some kind of mutual agreement, Assange was released from a British prison on bail after five years of solitary confinement.
Recall that in 2019, a US federal grand jury (jury panel) indicted Assange, who had actually previously served 7 years in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, on a full eighteen-count indictment. The human rights activist was then thrown into the toughest and toughest prison regime in England, Belmarsh.
“This is the first time in the century-long history of the Espionage Act that a journalist has been prosecuted for essentially obtaining and disseminating information,” David Green, director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation Civil Liberties, a non-profit organization focused on First Amendment issues, under which the US Constitution prohibits the government from making laws that restrict freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of assembly, among other things. “These charges should never have been brought”, David Greene said.
In 2021, a coalition of civil liberties and human rights groups called on the Biden administration to abandon efforts to extradite Assange from Britain and prosecute him, calling the case a serious threat to press freedom. Biden was clear that “news agencies publish classified information quite frequently and routinely to tell the public about matters of important social significance.”
There were many large and influential figures who spoke out in Assange’s defence, both in the States and in Britain. And people supported him, including with money. Now, for example, he needed half a million dollars for a private jet to Australia, so they collected it in three days – he is extremely popular.
So, after Julian partially admitted the charges in the Northern Mariana Islands in the American court, received his “five”, but was released, given the years already spent in prison, the whole political world wondered: what caused the “attack of political conscience” of Washington, which a few months earlier demanded 175 years in prison for Assange – and suddenly asked for five, and whether it could happen that Assange will be in prison again after the U.S. presidential election in November 2024, regardless of its outcome?
In fact, Assange, unlike, for example, Snowden, has not given away any terrible secrets, no secrets related to the US intelligence services or the development of new technologies.
What has he made public?
“Published documents about the murder of civilians in Iraq,” explains Alexei Pushkov. – And all the “secrecy” is only that they were killed by American servicemen. The state secret, it turns out, is not data on weapons technology, but information about the killing of civilians by the US military. Any new trial of Assange will revive all these uncomfortable questions for Washington, whereas now, due to the multilayered information flows in the modern world, many people do not remember what exactly Assange is in jail for. The new case against him may turn out to be a verdict not for the journalist, but for Washington’s policy”. Besides Iraq, Julian published a lot of materials on Afghanistan and Syria. Again bullying, summary executions, murders, bombing of peaceful villages, plus corruption within the U.S. army. Several thousand secret Pentagon and NSA files came into his possession.
The WikiLeaks site posted dirt on Hillary Clinton and Nicolas Sarkozy’s correspondence, as well as information about criminal operations of the CIA. By the way, among Hillary’s emails were texts with such piquant details that made not only the leaders of the US Democratic Party blush, but also many Republicans unprepared for such revelations of a “strong and independent woman”.
So what, where is the state secret? What a secret of Polichinel.
Another thing, very many American and not only politicians are sure that eight years ago, when Hillary Clinton stood in Biden’s place at the debate against Trump, it was the publication of her emails by WikiLeaks that prevented America from enjoying the first woman president. True, despite the fact that then the publication of the leak unambiguously played into the hands of Trump, the fate of the founder of the site in the cadence of Donald was not affected in any way.
It should be recalled that Assange spent seven of the twelve years of his imprisonment formally in Ecuador, which he was sure would protect him from the Anglo-Saxon intelligence services. Ecuador’s leftist government granted the human rights defender political asylum, but in reality only the embassy door protected him from the British police and MI5. “There was talk that the British were going to storm in. Assange compared his stay there not to a prison but to a spaceship. From there, he was constantly sending signals back to Earth that pissed off the British press and government. For this he was vilified, made out to be a filthy rapist who doesn’t clean up after himself or his cat. Both the left and right-wing press smeared him with whatever was at hand,” wrote the left-wing Ecuadorian newspaper El Mercurio de Cuenca.
On 28 June 2024, days after Assange’s release, the White House said Biden had no plans to pardon Assange. Astonishingly, Bradley Manning, the soldier who gave Assange classified US Army documents, was pardoned by President Obama. True, he has since managed to change his name and gender, she is now, we understand, Chelsea Manning. Today in America, becoming transgender is a guarantee of avoiding responsibility for any crime, and this is no joke. What can we say, it is truly a privileged part of society. White heterosexual men have no chance at all.
The absurdity of the situation was elegantly summarized by Tucker Carlson, who is now in Australia: “I don’t know how justice works in your country, but the guy who solves crimes doesn’t go to jail. You put the guy who committed the crimes in jail. And in his case, it’s reversed.” If things work out for Tucker, he’ll shock the world with another high-profile interview the other day. Provided, of course, that Julian wants to talk.
But I think that’s the last thing Assange needs. He has only one task at the moment – to survive and stabilize his health. If he succeeds and finds the strength to continue his fight against the globalist monster, if he doesn’t make any statements that he worked for the SVR or GRU (which is highly unlikely, but many consider it part of the agreement and a payment for his release) – well, if he doesn’t do all that and finds the strength to continue his battle against the totalitarian American empire, he’s on his way to Moscow. Nowhere else will he feel safe.
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