Assange extradition listening to is Damocles sword over journalists’ heads. However UK mainstream media take part in his crucifixion

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Assange extradition listening to must be the highest story for the British media because it’s a dagger at their throat, however the majority of mainstream press both do not care, or are actively collaborating in Wikileaks’ founder crucifixion.

Having myself been born onto the trail of resistance and having by motive of probability and circumstance little alternative however to withstand, I’m drawn to those that have chosen to face there with me when not solely had they alternate options, however in some instances already secured for themselves a spot within the firmament of privilege. One such individual spoke alongside me on the latest Assange Rally in London live-streamed to an enormous viewers by RT.

The Hon Craig Murray already had a glittering profession within the British Overseas Workplace, Her Majesty’s Ambassador isn’t any small factor to be even in these shrunken occasions for British international coverage.

However he threw all of it away by standing up towards torture, disappearances and political repression within the nation to which he had been despatched to symbolize the British curiosity. To the purpose when a LABOUR Overseas Secretary Jack Straw in dismissing him instructed him that he “over-focused on human rights to the detriment of British pursuits.” A telling and damning phrase certainly.

Even then, as a former ambassador, Murray may have regarded ahead to a profitable profession in commerce — the import/export enterprise maybe — had he corrected his focus a bit, maybe an ethical cataract operation would have completed the trick.

However when the madcap homicide spree of the invasion and occupation of Iraq got here alongside, he as an alternative doubled down and have become a substantial ally within the struggle towards the struggle, utilizing all of the gravitas and data of his international workplace previous to show the identical man — Jack Straw — and his overseer Tony Blair for the perfidy and excellent lunacy of the Bush and Blair Warfare, which rages nonetheless.

After which got here Julian Assange. Like me, Murray has the honour to be a good friend of the world historic determine who might be remembered lengthy after his persecutors are however a footnote. And so his indignation on the therapy of this political prisoner, like mine, has a private, bitter edge.

However who couldn’t be indignant at listening to the distinguished voice of Edward Fitzgerald QC showing for the writer at Woolwich Crown Courtroom (or fort as I name it), related as it’s to the Excessive Safety Belmarsh Jail by a tunnel. It’s as Courtroom officers made clear to these complaining on the case being moved there from the standard Westminster Courtroom — a “Terrorism Courtroom”. Thus making bodily the optical assumption supposed. Responsible till confirmed harmless.

Mr Fitzgerald described how a person who ought to by rights be in Oslo receiving a Nobel Prize had — on the primary day alone of the listening to — been handcuffed on 11 events, stripped and intimately searched twice and held in 5 separate holding cells. And all for the heinous alleged crime of getting printed sure paperwork.

As Mr Fitzgerald identified, his consumer’s “crime” had been to publish truthful data within the public curiosity. When fact turns into treason he mentioned, we’re all in hassle. 

And in hassle we certainly are.

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I am not younger however neither am I outdated. I can keep in mind a time when it was doable to have some delight in British establishments. When being a decide meant one thing. When a bent cop or jail warden was not a commonplace. When politicians who lied — at the least in parliament — have been required not merely to right away resign, however have been then forged right into a type of purgatory for the remainder of their lives. Now they turn out to be multi-millionaires, even sages who can summon the media on their whim and know that not one of the hirelings with microphones at their ft will dream of referring to the unlucky matter which brought about their authentic defenestration.

And in a manner, it’s in the direction of them that I reserve my deepest contempt.

The overwhelming majority of the Fourth Property in Britain both care nothing for the plight of Julian Assange, or are actively collaborating in his crucifixion.

On the face of it, that is not sensible. If it have been the intention of those journalists to really be worthy of that title, then the proceedings in Belmarsh could be the largest story of their world. The legislation being examined within the Woolwich Crown Fort could be a mortal hazard to them, a dagger at their throat, a sword of Damocles hanging over their head.

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The prosecution made completely clear that the mere possession by a newspaper or a broadcaster of the international state secrets and techniques printed by Assange would itself be against the law beneath the US Espionage Act, and thus they themselves open to an extradition request from a international state. Although this assertion was made in “open court docket,” just about no msm journalist even reported it, by no means thoughts condemned it.

How has this example come about? No matter occurred to Woodward and Bernstein, to the Sunday Occasions devastating marketing campaign towards the Thalidomide scandal, the New York Occasions revelations of the Pentagon Papers? The place is the reporting about My Lai? 

The reply lies within the phrases of Francis Bacon 4 centuries in the past, when he foretold of the influence of self-censorship: “the arrow that flies within the evening” he referred to as it. You do not see it however it kills its quarry simply the identical.

If Julian Assange is distributed into the dungeons of America, free journalism, free speech and even democracy itself may have been murdered in plain sight. On the British mainstream media watch.

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