Julian Assange can be extradited to US to face espionage charges, court rules

Travesty of “justice”

The lower court decision wasn’t any better in legal terms. The UK is a country of law?

“How can it be fair, how can it be right, how can it be possible, to extradite Julian to the very country which plotted to kill him?”

“This is an utterly shameful development that has alarming implications not only for Assange’s mental health, but also for journalism and press freedom around the world.”

I still don’t understand the basis for US jurisdiction over Assange. Is it within the jurisdiction of US courts to prosecute anyone in the world no matter where they are?

I can only hope they have done a nice job cleaning Epstein’s cell, and I truly hope the response they receive surprises them.

Although, the darkness of their intentions doesnt leave a lot of room for worries.

Fuckers.

Or Journalism at any rate.

I’m afraid it’s curtains for Julian, too. He survived Belmarsh but he will not survive Gitmo or whatever hell hole he will be disappeared into.

we learn that, at least under U.K. and U.S. law, the most fundamental of all human rights – freedom of speech – is effectively dead.

The High Court allowed the U.S. appeal to reverse an order not to extradite Julian Assange and to send the case back to magistrate’s court.

By Joe Lauria

The High Court in London on Friday ruled in the U.S. appeal against a lower court decision not to extradite imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange by sending the case back to Magistrate’s Court with instructions to send the case to the secretary of state to decide on Assange’s extradition.

The matter is now in the hands of the home secretary, Pritti Patel, unless Assange’s lawyers appeal the decision to the U.K. Supreme Court, which they have said they will do. If extradited, Assange faces up to 175 years in prison on charges under the Espionage Act and one count of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion. Assange is the first journalist to be charged with espionage by the U.S. for obtaining and publishing state secrets.

Lord Justice Timothy Holroyde, who read the High Court’s summary decision in court in nine minutes, said the order by a lower court to discharge Assange was overturned and that he was to remain on remand in prison.  Holroyde said that the High Court had accepted the U.S. assurances that Assange would not be kept in harsh prison conditions in the U.S. He called them “solemn undertakings from one government to another.”

The High Court was satisfied, Holroyde said, that Assange would not be held under Special Administrative Measures or sent to ADX Florence maximum security prison in Colorado, that Assange would receive adequate medical treatment while incarcerated and that he could serve his post-trial and post-appeal sentence in his native Australia.

LINK–ConsortiumNews, Assange Loses, High Court Allows US Appeal; Quashes Assange’s Discharge

I am sadden, not surprised by this ruling. Was in London, U.K. in 2006 when there seem to be a change in the air. The Londoners were pleasant and warm. So over the years I have watching/looking for News about the trends in the U.K. It has been on the same track there as here, in a slightly different manner. The news entailment has been promoting propaganda, the severe right turn of the government and a couple of months ago millions turned out into the streets to protest (this was not in the U.S. news media).

My belief is, the U.K. is more of a powered keg than the U.S. is at this moment, and for good reason. The people there know that they are being used and manipulated. This ruling will not help in the cause of keeping the people peaceful.

If you cannot dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit WC Fields

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You fuck with powerful people and law don’t mean squat.  Lots of people are behind military stuff, and they don’t want that interrupted.  Laws are not going to stand in the way of profits but exposing our breaking the laws looks bad.  Donziger is another obvious case of fucking with the wrong people.

Rule of law is a joke.  This country is a joke.

Oh, yea – no mean tweets. Mostly because I doubt Biden knows how to tweet . . .

Once extradited, Assange’s last chance would be with an American jury. I imagine some in our MIC will consider jury tampering as a patriotic duty. Anyone voting not guilty might find themselves, or their loved ones, facing an extraordinary rendition to God knows where.