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Stop the extraordinary rendition of Julian Assange!

by Patrice de Bergeracpas April 15, 2019
April 15, 2019
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by Eric London


Meantime in America, the revoltingly treacherous Democrats and their multitude of media shills aid and abet this outrage. So much for opposing Trump in anything that matters!

All the police instruments of the global empire are arayed against media activits like Assange.


Dateline: 15 April 2019

The attempt by the British, Ecuadorian and US governments to force the removal of journalist and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States is an antidemocratic conspiracy and a brazen violation of international law.

While the US government presents the process against Assange as an extradition, the difference between an extradition and an extraordinary rendition—in which a state carries out an extrajudicial abduction for the purpose of arbitrary detention, torture, and summary punishment—is being effectively obliterated.

The US government is, in effect, applying a similar method to Assange as it used against those it has subjected to extraordinary rendition during the “war on terror.” Since 2001, the CIA has abducted hundreds of people, bound them up, flown them across the world to secret CIA “black site” dungeons and subjected them to harsh interrogation and torture. Once the government gets its hands on Assange, it is questionable whether he will ever be seen again.

The process has been accompanied by a campaign of media vilification that seems to have no restraint. Its aim is to transform Assange into a monster so that his rights can be deprived.

What the endless media reports ignore is that Assange has exposed imperialist crimes in wars that killed millions of civilians and thousands of US soldiers. He has brought to light horrific crimes that the government and corporate media conspired to keep secret.

While watching the news personalities slander the persecuted journalist and late-night show subject him to degraded and scatological mockery, one wishes to stick a bar of soap in each of their mouths.

What the endless media reports ignore is that Assange has exposed imperialist crimes in wars that killed millions of civilians and thousands of US soldiers. He has brought to light horrific crimes that the government and corporate media conspired to keep secret. While watching the news personalities slander the persecuted journalist and late-night show subject him to degraded and scatological mockery, one wishes to stick a bar of soap in each of their mouths.

The US, British and Ecuadorian government claim that Assange’s extradition is proper because the US is only indicting the whistleblower on a single charge of attempting to help Chelsea Manning bypass a password. But in the aftermath of Assange’s arrest, the corporate press and politicians have contradicted the official explanation, letting slip the real reason the US wants custody over Assange.

The Washington Post’s editorial board wrote: “Mr. Assange’s transfer to US custody, followed possibly by additional Russia-related charges or his conversion into a cooperating witness, could be the key to learning more about Russian intelligence’s efforts to undermine democracy in the West. Certainly he is long overdue for personal accountability.”

The New York Times said, “Once in the United States, moreover, he could become a useful source on how Russia orchestrated its attacks on the Clinton campaign.”

After British police dragged Assange out of the Ecuadorian embassy, Democratic Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer tweeted, “Now that Julian Assange has been arrested, I hope he will soon be held to account for his meddling in our elections on behalf of Putin and the Russian government.” Democratic Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Eliot Engel tweeted that Assange “time after time compromised the national security of the United States and our allies by publicly releasing classified government documents and confidential materials related to our 2016 presidential election.”

These statements show the extradition proceedings are being conducted under a false pretense. The single public charge is a cover. The government is planning to interrogate Assange, compel him to provide testimony and further prosecute him for exposing US war crimes. In the words of Democratic Senator Joe Manchin: “He is our property and we can get the facts and the truth from him.”

Assange has no obligation to provide the government with any testimony because he has the Fifth Amendment right not to testify against himself. The media and politicians’ statements beg the question: how does the government plan to “get the facts” from him? What harsh measures, practiced in the prisons of Abu Gharaib and Bagram Air Force Base, will be brought to bear?

The proceedings in the days since Assange’s arrest show the type of treatment he will receive in any legal proceeding.

The British government, on the invite of Ecuadorian President and imperialist lackey Lenin Moreno, blatantly violated the principle of consular sanctuary by dragging Assange from the Ecuadorian embassy in London. This exposes the statements of the US and British governments admonishing the Saudi government for murdering Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi embassy in Istanbul, Turkey last year as thoroughly hypocritical.


Editor's Note: On April 12 we noted Jimmy Fallon's and Noah Trevor's despicable behaviour toward Assange in a special piece (Fallon and his idiotic audience laugh at Assange • Other court jesters do likewise). Today we find a video by the Washington Post featuring their remarks, including Seth Meyers. Obviously the CIA-controlled Post thinks these court jesters' squalid jokes af Assange's expense are likely to be shared by the majority, a transparent effort at trivialising the enormity of this crime. While the late show comedians audience was pathetic in their responses, little above a bunch of Pavlovian dogs snickering at the host's command, the YouTube audience is far more critical. Out 25,967 views, the comments run almost 3-to-1 against the comics' poisonous cheap humour (see the opinion sample below). —PG

Late-night TV hosts react to Julian Assange's arrest

Kate Baldwin
Kate Baldwin2 days ago
Disgusting example of a human. The hosts, not Assange.
su o
su o2 days ago
I’m convinced that all these shows exist to make it seem that corrupt world politics isn’t that serious. Almost as if they’re laughing at us.
Wolfgang Von Zubaz
Wolfgang Von Zubaz1 day ago
Yeah, it's hilarious when a guy who represents press freedoms is arrested... hilarious!
Chloe Cort
Chloe Cort2 days ago
Its hilarious right? The torture of a fellow human for telling you the truth ... while those with a platform tow the line... integrity is an expensive attribute.
John Blisniuk
John Blisniuk1 day ago
Shame on late-night TV, easy for jokes to be made about one [helpless and innocent] man.

On Thursday, the British district judge who heard Assange’s bail request mocked him and laughed when Assange’s lawyers requested a fair hearing. “His assertion that he has not had a fair hearing is laughable,” said judge Michael Snow. “And his behavior is that of a narcissist who cannot get beyond his own selfish interests.” Assange has been sent to Belmarsh, a maximum security prison for terrorists and other high-risk detainees, where half of all prisoners are only allowed to leave their cells for two hours a week.

There is no question that Assange will be denied the right to a fair trial in the US, where the entire political and media establishment has already pronounced his guilt. In whatever “trial” takes place, Assange’s lawyers will be regularly denied the right to review evidence against their client on the grounds that it is “classified” for “national security” purposes.

The conspiracy against Assange confirms the absence of any constituency for the defense of democratic rights in the ruling class.

To the leaders of the democratic revolutions of the 18th century, the practices now called extraordinary rendition recalled the dark and crowded dungeons of Charles II and Louis XIV, filled with political prisoners. The bourgeois revolutions in France and the United States abolished arbitrary detention and torture as the hated method of political reaction, upholding the right of due process, habeas corpus, and freedom from cruel and unusual punishment. Under international law today, extraordinary rendition is a crime against humanity under the Nuremberg principles.

If the ruling class can conduct this operation against Assange without any opposition from the political or media establishment, then any crime is possible. All the while, “left” figures like Jeremy Corbyn go [largely along with the lie, absolving themselves of any responsibility.

As for the British government, its brutal handling of Assange contrasts with its response to Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, who fought an extradition request after Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon attempted to prosecute Pinochet in Spain for mass murder. In 2000, the Labour government of then-Prime Minister Tony Blair refused to extradite Pinochet and ordered his release from house arrest at his mansion in Surrey.

"The attempted trial of an accused in the condition diagnosed in Senator Pinochet on the charges which have been made against him in this case, could not be a fair trial in any country and would violate Article Six of the European Convention on Human Rights," the Home Office wrote at the time.

While the dictator Pinochet murdered and tortured thousands of workers and socialists after taking power in the September 11, 1973 coup, Julian Assange published evidence of US war crimes. He is hated by the international ruling class because he has done significant damage to the interests of imperialism.

The seven years since Assange was forced to seek refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy have seen the reemergence of the class struggle on an international scale. It is this powerful social force—the working class—that must be mobilized to defend democratic rights and secure the liberation of class-war prisoners like Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden and Julian Assange.

—Eric London

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Eric London is a European correspondent with the wsws.org, a Marxian website.

Addendum

The much celebrated (and lavishly paid) Steven Colbert has been mocking Assange for a long time. Here’s a post he did back in 2016! I note with some consolation that the stream of comments is again thoughtful and critical of Colbert’s “turncoatism”.

Julian Assange Can’t Leak Any More Emails


The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Published on Oct 20, 2016

After the nation of Ecuador cuts off his Internet access, Julian Assange must resort to desperate measures to continue his flood of Wikileaks.


COMMENTS
webkilla2 years ago
This is quite frankly scary. The Late Show, Colbert – none of them should be making fun of Assange’s situation. The email leaks have shown Hillary asking if the US government “can’t just ‘drone’ the guy” – and he is revealing serious systematic corruption and election fraud. …but no, the joke is that someone cut his internet.
Valmir Mehmetaj
Valmir Mehmetaj21 hours ago
so much for liberal values I guess
Drew Graham
Drew Graham2 years ago
I remember when Colbert used to have a backbone and speak truth to power instead of just repeating their talking points.

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