Free Speech is Dead but will we allow ourselves to witness the USA murder Julian Assange?
By Dark Politricks
It has been obvious for years now that true free speech is dead in the Western supposedly "free world". However the case of Julian Assange is one that all the mainstream papers who published his work, and profited from it whilst Wikileaks itself did not, seem to have forgotten the importance of his case for all journalists, legacy and alternative.
Julian Assange before he was tortured by the UK
Julian has been slowly tortured through years of solitary confinement in Belmarsh prison and before that within the Ecuadorian embassy, where the CIA and MI6 plotted to kill him lest anyone forget.
If he is sent to the USA who want to lock him up for over 175 years, he will surely die. If he is locked up in a supermax prison he will probably be Epstein'd off, shanked in the showers by a CIA paid prisoner with nothing to lose, commit suicide, or even be executed.
His trial under the ancient Espionage Act means he has no right to claim the public had a right to see the war crimes committed by the USA they claim he and Chelsea Manning hacked US computers to obtain. He is being charged using a fraudulent FBI case that relied on a compromised witness who lied in his testimony about Assange doing any sort of actual hacking which the US still claims he did. Quote:
A major witness in the United States’ Department of Justice case against Julian Assange has admitted to fabricating key accusations in the indictment against the Wikileaks founder. The witness, who has a documented history with sociopathy and has received several convictions for sexual abuse of minors and wide-ranging financial fraud, made the admission in a newly published interview in Stundin where he also confessed to having continued his crime spree whilst working with the Department of Justice and FBI and receiving a promise of immunity from prosecution.
You can read my full article here about the fraudulent witness the FBI relied on to make their case about Assange actually hacking US computers to get the information with Chelsea Manning.
To see all my previous articles I have created here, or imported since I got removed from my older bigger site, you can use my new search bar to search for "Julian Assange".
If you want to see all the articles I had on my old site you will need to use the Wayback Machine, It is quite a trip down memory lane to see all the articles I had back then, for if any long time reader remembers, it was Wikileaks release of the snuff video of the US helicopter murder of Reuters reporters on the ground in Iraq that started the rage in me that got me first writing Dark Politricks.
However that article is not available here or even on the Wayback machine it seems, not that I can find anyway, it seems the authorities have even tried cleaning my old site on the never go away Internet site itself. An unusually large no of articles related to Assange and Manning are 404 Not Found - or claimed to have never been indexed at all. Very suspicious.
However you can see watch that infamous video with commentary from Assange below.
Remember if you ever find videos on here, maybe from RT.com, or others just blocked with a "This video is not available in your country", to use a VPN to get around the block. It is good to see the Brave browser search bar is not blocking Russia Today anymore, whilst other search engines still hide the site. I have found using Belarus the best country to get RT content which was banned at the start of the Russian Special Military Operation in Ukraine. If you cannot afford to pay for a VPN, Bitdefender allows you up to 200MB of free traffic over their servers per day. Another choice is Proton VPN, which offers some free server locations around the world.
"The United States must pledge before the world that it will not pursue journalists for shining a light on the secret crimes of the powerful."
"There must be no more foolish talk about prosecuting any media organization, be it WikiLeaks or be it the New York Times."
The New York Times, once a bastion of free speech who often printed Wikileaks material as well as information from the Snowden files, is now nothing more than an establishment paper pushing CIA intelligence. Is not making any comments about the possibility of Julian Assange being extradited to the USA from the UK despite publishing the same material Wikileaks published.
It does not matter if you are a paid journalist working for one of these big papers or a blogger like me exposing more information that the mainstream media won't go near, such as pro Palestinian news, and the news you don't hear from the Russian Ukrainian war.
If we let the murder of Julian Assange go ahead it will shake fear into many journalists bellies making them self censor what they write, scared of the same possible treatment.
We cannot let the murder of Julian Assange by the combined intelligence services of the UK and USA go ahead.
Free speech may have died in the UK long ago, and in the USA no-one is sticking up for their constitutional rights, letting the Government expand the massive US Security state, step by step, making the Constitution irrelevant. If you don't protect it, the Government and the permanent security state will take it away, and that's what is happening in America right now.
If you are American and believe in your Constitution then you should be protesting the extradition of Julian Assange as well all these new extensions to the FISA court and expansion of NSA surveillance on US citizens.
The death of Julian Assange will just be the final nail in the coffin.
I hope the UK judges have not had closed ears since the last appeal where the FBI's lies about Julian Assange were used to let his case proceed forward. One of the judges is an existing attorney that helps the UK security services and really should have been recused, but she has stayed sitting.
It is not a good sign when the Judges deciding your fate probably hate you and your website for allowing intelligence to be aired, that whilst in the public interest, was not in the interest of the Security State they themselves work for.
CIA Wanted To Assassinate Julian Assange Whilst In the Ecuadorian Embassy
By Dark Politricks
Hopefully by now you have read about the CIA's plans to assassinate Julian Assange in a shoot out at the Ecuadorian Embassy when he was holed up there in his 5th year.
An investigation revealed the CIA planned to abduct, kidnap, or assassinate WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and senior officials inside the CIA asked for "sketches" or "options" to be drawn up as to how these acts could be carried out on Assange.
A Yahoo News investigation has discovered that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had plans to kidnap and assassinate Julian Assange while he was held up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in early 2017. It was his fifth straight year there as Wikileaks continued to reveal crimes against humanity by several governments and, or often in collusion with, big powerful multinational corporations.
Some National Security Council officials worried that the CIA’s proposals to kidnap Assange would not only be illegal but also might jeopardize the prosecution of the WikiLeaks founder. Concerned the CIA’s plans would derail a potential criminal case, the Justice Department expedited the drafting of charges against Assange to ensure that they were in place if he were brought to the United States.
In late 2017, in the midst of the debate over kidnapping and other extreme measures, the agency’s plans were upended when U.S. officials picked up what they viewed as alarming reports that Russian intelligence operatives were preparing to sneak Assange out of the United Kingdom and spirit him away to Moscow.
The intelligence reporting about a possible breakout was viewed as credible at the highest levels of the U.S. government. At the time, Ecuadorian officials had begun efforts to grant Assange diplomatic status as part of a scheme to give him cover to leave the embassy and fly to Moscow to serve in the country’s Russian mission.
In response, the CIA and the White House began preparing for a number of scenarios to foil Assange’s Russian departure plans, according to three former officials.
Those included potential gun battles with Kremlin operatives on the streets of London, crashing a car into a Russian diplomatic vehicle transporting Assange and then grabbing him, and shooting out the tires of a Russian plane carrying Assange before it could take off for Moscow.
You can watch this news expose on the Yahoo investigation here, or on YouTube at The Hill.
The most important part I want you to note is that, U.S. officials asked their British counterparts to do the shooting if gunfire was required, and the British agreed, according to a former senior administration official.
This means the British Tory Government was prepared to break international law, and almost cause a potential war with Russia by acting for the Americans in shooting at Russian Diplomatic vehicles and planes.
Who can wonder what would have happened if this had occurred but it worries me greatly that the UK is now so despotic that it would even consider helping the USA in such a plan.
The new Police Bill the Tories are passing will ban protests that the police deem "too loud". Protests are naturally loud. Without them many people would not even know was going on in this country, despite the MSM labelling protesters as anti-vaxers when they are in fact against 2 tier society based on vaccine passports and mandated vaccination which have now proved to be almost useless due to the anti-bodies not lasting long enough, or protecting against variants of the virus.
We should be working on vaccines properly such as those that cured Polio, and we have as children for Mumps that keep the anti-bodies longer throughout our lifetime however this takes time and Big Pharma cannot wait to make more money.
What's more important to them, make billions more now by getting countries to buy more products and mandate more shots or spend money and time working on a proper vaccine cure with long term trials and testing for this virus.
This country is turning into something I really do not like the look of. If you are planning on having children I would seriously look around and take a look at what our country is becoming. Not only do we protect al-Qaeda and ISIS in Syria from being exterminated by Russian and Syrian forces but we plot and plan constantly against Russia whilst accusing them of doing the same sort of activities that we are doing ourselves.
Soon there will be no skilled manual jobs as AI and Robotics take over from human labour. Automatic driving vehicles and drones to deliver packages and fast food. There will be less need for people to work skilled jobs and the jobs that you used to need a degree for will all be home based solitary activities where you communicate with workers by ZOOM and have little social interaction.
This is part of the Governments aim to reduce CO2 emissions by preventing people from driving to and from work.
Do you really want to spend your life working in solitude with no social interaction?
It's what made me leave my last job as it was just so unfulfilling but bosses will save money from renting office space and care little about employees mental health when they can make more money for themselves.
Soon towns will become desolate areas with one big Amazon depot in the middle, auto driving lorries delivering and transporting goods, drones flying in and out and the only jobs will be gig work for people who get sacked by text message when they can't deliver food for people in time due to petrol shortages at garages caused by the lack of foresight from our government.
I just think our country is going down hill and this latest story about willing to almost start WWIII over killing a journalist is just too much for me to stand.
Please leave your comments about the state of the UK below. I would be interested to know what you think about it.
UK Government Using COVID as Cover To Create Police State
By Dark Politricks
The UK is turning into a Police State before our eyes, that is, if you are watching and listening to the right news and not consumed by talk about COVID.
It's as if the Tory government is letting the dilly dallying over COVID rules lockdowns and passports consume everyone's thoughts, all whilst they implement some of the most draconian laws we have ever seen.
Forced detention and isolation can be of anyone, including children, and for any amount of time.
Authorities can FORCEABLY take biological samples from your body.
There’s no clear access to legal rights from as-yet unidentified isolation facilities.
Powers last up to 2.5 years...why so long?
Lockdown powers could prevent protests against measures.
State surveillance safeguards weakened.
Protections from forced detainment and treatment under Mental Health Act lowered.
Cremations can be enforced against personal and religious wishes.
Changes to the court system. Registration of deaths.
No inquests into suspicious deaths! No requirement for any medical certification for burials or cremations!
It also indemnifies the health service should they fail for what ever reason to provide care.
The most frightening part is only one medical 'officer' is required to sign off on a "COMPULSORY TREATMENT ORDER" which means... in the real world you can be forced to accept medication or held down and injected with whatever is seen fit which is the biggest and worst threat to your own freedoms. Schedule 8 Pt1.
Local Authorities will now be exempted from compliance with their duties under The Care Act 2014. Schedule 11.
So if someone dies in police custody or any type of custody they can simply dispose of the body without any paperwork medical exam or certification or inquest.
Sounds like a Police State already doesn't it, and I wonder how many people will be noticing to see if this law is removed like the Tories said it would 2 years after it went onto the law books. However as the new Police Bill prevents people protesting if they are too noisy then maybe we won't even have a chance to protest against the extension of the UK police state.
How many of you read about all the protests going on over Europe at the moment against their restriction of movement?
It is quite clear a lot of people do not like lockdowns and the threat of fines or jail for breaking them. However how many people have read about these massive protests in London or seen anything about them on the news in the UK. I haven't and no-one I ask has as well. There are a few articles if you search Google but they all come at the protests from a "Speaking to a conspiracy theorist at a protest" angle. So the mainstream media are obviously taking these protests seriously.
Soon however these protests will be crushed by the Police due to the new Police Bill that will prevent protests that are too noisy.
I think this protest at Trafalgar Square might come under the noisy part.
Restrictions on protests in the controversial new policing bill breach human rights laws and will increase the risk of peaceful demonstrators in England and Wales being criminalised, MPs and peers have warned.
They say the police, crime, sentencing and courts (PCSC) bill, which has provoked widespread protests, contains provisions that are unnecessary and disproportionate and confer unacceptably wide and vague powers to curb demonstrations on the home secretary and police.
They are keeping the uprising against the new UK Police State as quiet as possible. The original video was taken down at YouTube so I found a video on BitChute about the London Protests against Lockdowns, and anti-tyranny Police State measures being brought forward in the UK that would ban such protests like these for being too noisy > https://www.bitchute.com/video/GRskh0SZ3ABv/
However you can watch this video from The Duran about the Tories new Official Secrets Act. It is supposed to be to prosecute spies, but it is being modelled on the US version, but worse, and it is aimed at not just papers but anyone, including maybe me, for passing on information from whistle-blowers about illegal acts that the UK may have committed.
This can range from things I have already reported on over the years including something mentioned in the video below such as:
So from what is spoken about in this video about the new law, will it just affect papers and if so why are they not writing about the dangers of it?
Or is it aimed more at bloggers and people like Julian Assange so that the UK can lock people up who question or repeat whistle-blowers information about UK secrets, without a public interest defence.
From the Duran,Boris Johnson launches a new Secrets Act to imprison Journalists who dare question the government.
Official Secrets Act: Boris Johnson 'Doesn't Want' Journos Prosecuted for 'Doing Their Public Duty'
It looks like to me, that the UK is turning into a real police state and this is just the thin edge of the wedge, that even Church leaders have come out to speak against in the UK.
I guess if you are not reading #Altnews you will not even know about any of this, but if you are you should be very worried.
Even posting on Facebook or Twitter might land you in jail depending on the wording of the bill.
Anything that exposes UK Foreign Policy crimes, intelligence agencies doing wrong doings, or war crimes could land you in jail for the rest of your life.
Now does that sound like a free speech democracy?
Just don't expect anyone to come and protest for your innocence, the police will ban that for being too noisy straight away.
Ryan Grim Breaks Down Why Julian Assange Should Not Be Prosecuted
By Dark Politricks
Julian Assange just spent his 50th birthday in Belmarsh prison. The prison in the UK that high security prisoners are stored and abused, nicknamed "The Meat Grinder". He should not be there, and although I disagree with a lot of what Ryan Grim has to say, this piece he did on The Hill really breaks down what he is accused of, and why he should not be prosecuted.
The USA under Joe Biden is carrying on the savage torture of this journalist, by carrying on to appeal the Judges ruling that he should not be extradited to the US due to their inhuman conditions for prisoners. The Judge even mentioning the case of sex offender Jeffery Epstein, and the likelihood Assange would die in a US Super Max prison. The US has come back to say that if convicted in their show trial, he would not go to a Super Max prison to spend the next 300 years or whatever stupid sentence they are going to try for.
However once extradited there is nothing stopping them from breaking any promises they had made to the UK court and putting him in solitary, in a tiny box cell, with little human contact. The no of times the US has lied in extradition cases is huge, they will and do say anything to get their prisoner back to their country, where they can then do what they like with him.
It seems that despite the FBI's main witness coming out and telling the truth about the lies he told to get off charges himself related to child molesting and fraud by lying about Assange in an Icelandic Newspaper, that I printed in my last article, the US is still carrying on their charade of a prosecution. They are labelling him a hacker when the only evidence comes from Mr Thordason, who has admitted he lied to the FBI about nearly all the involvement he had with Julian Assange and WikiLeaks.
Therefore if you remove his testimony, Julian has not been proven to have hacked anything. All the evidence comes from the lying words of a 28 FBI informant from Iceland trying to get out of being taken to court for his own crimes. Take away this evidence and the FBI and DOJ basically have no evidence to convict Assange.
This all goes to prove that the handling of Assange is more about punishing him for revealing US secrets, which journalists have been doing for time immemorial, and making him suffer rather than the actual law. Julian Assange has being denied bail, and the US carrying on trying to lie about him being a hacker rather than a journalist who did what the Guardian and New York Times also did, print materials he was given, not material he hacked and stole illegally.
The indictment states that together Mr Thordarson and Julian Assange tried to crack a password together to get into an Icelandic bank. This bank was assumed to contain information about defaulted loans provided by the Icelandic Landsbank during the 2008 banking crisis. In fact Mr Thordason already had access to this information with his own login, whether they shared that login is immaterial and outside the FBI's jurisdiction as it was in Iceland.
Julian Assange like any good journalist wanted information, and when asked what information he should get, Assange actually said "I can't give targets around for legal reasons, but Google around and find bad people". This is evidence that he was trying to keep inside the bounds of the law not break them.
All Assange is, was a publisher of information that was given to him by whistle-blowers. The same information that was printed by multiple papers around the globe. The DOJ have the problem of how to prosecute Assange without stopping free speech and the printing of information by the New York Times obtained illegally but publicly important to reveal if it is about government crimes. This is why they are trying to accuse him of being a hacker. Once you listen to the video you will hear how thin this prosecution against Assange really is.
Many people believe that this grudge against Assange relates to the emails leaked during the 2016 US election from Hillary Clinton. It doesn't, it relates to the war crimes committed by the US army in Iraq, and torture information from GITMO gathered by Chelsea Manning who has already been to jail for her crimes.
This information was very embarrassing for the US as it revealed their cruel methods of killing Iraqi's, including Reuters reporters filmed from US helicopters as they joked about killing a number of men and even children that arrived in an "ambulance" to help them.
So listen to this short news piece as Ryan Grim breaks down the DOJ's indictment against Julian Assange.
To read more about Mr Thordarson, and his lies, including claiming that he was a top figure at WikiLeaks and all the incriminating things he said about Assange to his FBI handlers, you can read the article in which he comes clean here > The Lying FBI Informant Trying To Imprison Julian Assange.
Julian Assange's family have just finished a tour of the US to try and raise awareness about his trial, the evidence, and the treatment he is suffering in Belmarsh jail at the moment. I doubt many MSM news channels gave them a positive light, considering they are all now Operation Mockingbird outlets, fully formed in the flesh, with real ex intelligence officers as news anchors, or guest presenters, along with all the adverts for the MIC, including Raytheon and Lockheed and Martin, during their breaks. These deep state entities control the MSM in the US now and it is the reason you cannot get real news from their shows.
They no longer need to sneak about ,and offer secret tax free salaries, as the MI5 does here in the UK to BBC reporters, as attested to in John Snows autobiography.
Instead they are now funding, advertising on, and reporting the news themselves. You are unlikely to find an unpopular view that goes against the establishment line being uttered by any guest, and if it is, they won't be invited back for sure.
So many popular commentators and journalists like Glenn Greenwald, Max Blumenthal and many others no longer appear on supposed left wing news channels like MSNBC. Instead they have to go to the right wing FOX, and use Tucker Carlson, as I write about in this article, to get their news out. For this they are smeared by left wing purists as being Right Wing.
Why is it that to get to the truth you have to get labelled crazy first, a conspiracy theorist or a nutter, before finally the truth is revealed and then everyone treats it as if it has always been so. On another matter related to news not getting out to the public.
“The government has formally and officially come out and informed Congress that these things are – A, they’re real – and two, that they’re not ours and that they seem to be performing, at least some of them … in remarkable ways,"
Even the head of Lockeheed Martin Skunkworks, designer of the Stealth bomber and many other secret planes for the US, said before his death:
“We now have the technology to take ET home. No, it won’t take someone’s lifetime to do it. There is an error in the equations. We know what it is. We now have the capability to travel to the stars.”
and
“We already have the means to travel among the stars but these technologies are locked up in Black Projects…and it would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity. Anything you can imagine, we already know how to do.” - Ben Rich, Former Director of Lockheed Skunk works shortly before his passing. You can read that quote and more here.
Ex President's are admitting that something strange is going on in the skies, and scientists who have heard the news are having to re-adjust their thinking to a new paradigm due to this new evidence, a fact now admitted by the Government that UFO's or UAP's as the US DOD is calling them, really do exist. Something they and many others in authority and science fields have mocked people for believing in, for years.
Their whole world of physics should be changing right now, but how many scientists are actually aware of all this new information?
However, for most people the world just seems to carry on spinning, with hardly any news on this matter having being heard by them. They still think UFO's are a conspiracy theory, despite all the new disclosure by the US Government, Navy, Pentagon and DOD.
So just like Julian Assange and the threat his prosecution poses to all journalists and leakers of classified information, news that "we can take ET home", does not even make the news or get to the public.
Hopefully the video by Ryan Grim clarifies some things up for those not totally clued up to the injustice being inflicted on this centuries most prolific journalist and founder of WikiLeaks.
Whether anything will get the UK judge to look into the false claims by the FBI's informant / child molesting fraudster is another matter altogether. Appeal courts do not necessarily look at new evidence, so it is debatable whether they can get this important information to the Judge so they know the FBI's case is based on lies.
If the news that UFO's are real has not hit the heads of most of the population, then what will it take to get this important news about the threat to our free speech, and our right to know what the government does with our tax money, and Julian Assange's torture, out to the people?
A major witness in the United States’ Department of Justice case against Julian Assange has admitted to fabricating key accusations in the indictment against the Wikileaks founder. The witness, who has a documented history with sociopathy and has received several convictions for sexual abuse of minors and wide-ranging financial fraud, made the admission in a newly published interview in Stundin where he also confessed to having continued his crime spree whilst working with the Department of Justiceand FBI and receiving a promise of immunity from prosecution.
The man in question, Sigurdur Ingi Thordarson, was recruited by US authorities to build a case against Assange after misleading them to believe he was previously a close associate of his. In fact he had volunteered on a limited basis to raise money for Wikileaks in 2010 but was found to have used that opportunity to embezzle more than $50,000 from the organization. Julian Assange was visiting Thordarson’s home country of Iceland around this time due to his work with Icelandic media and members of parliament in preparing the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative, a press freedom project that produced a parliamentary resolution supporting whistleblowers and investigative journalism.
The United States is currently seeking Assange’s extradition from the United Kingdom in order to try him for espionage relating to the release of leaked classified documents. If convicted, he could face up to 175 years in prison. The indictment has sparked fears for press freedoms in the United States and beyond and prompted strong statements in support of Assange from Amnesty International, Reporters without borders, the editorial staff of the Washington Post and many others.
US officials presented an updated version of an indictment against him to a Magistrate court in London last summer. The veracity of the information contained therein is now directly contradicted by the main witness, whose testimony it is based on.
No instruction from Assange
The court documents refer to Mr Thordarson simply as “Teenager” (a reference to his youthful appearance rather than true age, he is 28 years old) and Iceland as “NATO Country 1” but make no real effort to hide the identity of either. They purport to show that Assange instructed Thordarson to commit computer intrusions or hacking in Iceland.
The aim of this addition to the indictment was apparently to shore up and support the conspiracy charge against Assange in relation to his interactions with Chelsea Manning. Those occurred around the same time he resided in Iceland and the authors of the indictment felt they could strengthen their case by alleging he was involved in illegal activity there as well. This activity was said to include attempts to hack into the computers of members of parliament and record their conversations.
In fact, Thordarson now admits to Stundin that Assange never asked him to hack or access phone recordings of MPs. His new claim is that he had in fact received some files from a third party who claimed to have recorded MPs and had offered to share them with Assange without having any idea what they actually contained. He claims he never checked the contents of the files or even if they contained audio recordings as his third party source suggested. He further admits the claim, that Assange had instructed or asked him to access computers in order to find any such recordings, is false.
Nonetheless, the tactics employed by US officials appear to have been successful as can be gleaned from the ruling of Magistrate Court Judge Vanessa Baraitser on January 4th of this year. Although she ruled against extradition, she did so purely on humanitarian grounds relating to Assange’s health concerns, suicide risk and the conditions he would face in confinement in US prisons. With regards to the actual accusations made in the indictment Baraitser sided with the arguments of the American legal team, including citing the specific samples from Iceland which are now seriously called into question.
Other misleading elements can be found in the indictment, and later reflected in the Magistrate’s judgement, based on Thordarson’s now admitted lies. One is a reference to Icelandic bank documents. The Magistrate court judgement reads: “It is alleged that Mr. Assange and Teenager failed a joint attempt to decrypt a file stolen from a “NATO country 1” bank”.
Thordarson admits to Stundin that this actually refers to a well publicised event in which an encrypted file was leaked from an Icelandic bank and assumed to contain information about defaulted loans provided by the Icelandic Landsbanki. The bank went under in the fall of 2008, along with almost all other financial institutions in Iceland, and plunged the country into a severe economic crisis. The file was at this time, in summer of 2010, shared by many online who attempted to decrypt it for the public interest purpose of revealing what precipitated the financial crisis. Nothing supports the claim that this file was even “stolen” per se, as it was assumed to have been distributed by whistle-blowers from inside the failed bank.
More deceptive language emerges in the aforementioned judgment where it states: “...he [Assange] used the unauthorized access given to him by a source, to access a government website of NATO country-1 used to track police vehicles.”
This depiction leaves out an important element, one that Thordarson clarifies in his interview with Stundin. The login information was in fact his own and not obtained through any nefarious means. In fact, he now admits he had been given this access as a matter of routine due to his work as a first responder while volunteering for a search and rescue team. He also says Assange never asked for any such access.
Revealing chat logs
Thordarson spoke with a journalist from Stundin for several hours as he prepared a thorough investigative report into his activities that include never before published chat logs and new documents.
The chat logs were gathered by Thordarson himself and give a comprehensive picture of his communications whilst he was volunteering for Wikileaks in 2010 and 11. It entails his talks with WikiLeaks staff as well as unauthorized communications with members of international hacking groups that he got into contact with via his role as a moderator on an open IRC WikiLeaks forum, which is a form of live online chat. There is no indication WikiLeaks staff had any knowledge of Thordarson’s contacts with aforementioned hacking groups, indeed the logs show his clear deception.
The communications there show a pattern where Thordarson is constantly inflating his position within WikiLeaks, describing himself as chief of staff, head of communications, No 2 in the organization or responsible for recruits. In these communications Thordarson frequently asks the hackers to either access material from Icelandic entities or attack Icelandic websites with so-called DDoS attacks. These are designed to disable sites and make them inaccessible but not cause permanent damage to content.
Stundin cannot find any evidence that Thordarson was ever instructed to make those requests by anyone inside WikiLeaks. Thordarson himself is not even claiming that, although he explains this as something Assange was aware of or that he had interpreted it so that this was expected of him. How this supposed non-verbal communication took place he cannot explain.
Furthermore, he never explained why WikiLeaks would be interested in attacking any interests in Iceland, especially at such a sensitive time while they were in the midst of publishing a huge trove of US diplomatic cables as part of an international media partnership. Assange is not known to have had any grievances with Icelandic authorities and was in fact working with members of parliament in updating Iceland’s freedom of press laws for the 21st century.
On the FBI radar
Thordarson's rogue acts were not limited to communications of that nature as he also admits to Stundin that he set up avenues of communication with journalists and had media pay for lavish trips abroad where he misrepresented himself as an official representative of WikiLeaks.
He also admits that he stole documents from WikiLeaks staff by copying their hard drives. Among those were documents from Renata Avila, a lawyer who worked for the organization and Mr. Assange.
Thordarson continued to step up his illicit activities in the summer of 2011 when he established communication with “Sabu”, the online moniker of Hector Xavier Monsegur, a hacker and a member of the rather infamous LulzSec hacker group.
In that effort all indications are that Thordarson was acting alone without any authorization, let alone urging, from anyone inside WikiLeaks.
Hillary Clinton Expects Russia to move a Far Left Democratic Member or 3rd Party to "Steal Democratic Votes" to Let Trump Win Again
By Dark Politricks
I must apologise for being off for so long. Severe illness, social issues and sever pain has stopped me from writing and when I do write you must let me get through 3 versions.
The drunken flow of consciousness that spills out from a sudden idea,
The attempt at clean up but still on medication and
Then hopefully the final draft when sober with time on my hands.
This is about the US election coming up soon.
It really cracks me up that here in the UK our politicians can demand and hold a general election bringing in a new parliament within 4 weeks whereas the USA seems to take 2 years of primaries, debates, people dropping out from the 20 odd contenders and then the actual election debates between the orange potential dictator and the ever so hopeful Democrats whose both parties are both supported and funded by the same big Pharma, MIC Armament companies and Health Insurance companies in a fake face off in who will continue the MIC's one world agenda as a front man.
So we have Hillary Clinton, trying to dip her skanky toes into the drinking water of those Democratic supporters who still believe in the honesty and truth of the God Given USA Government, A corporatist octopus, with a deep state that stays in power for decades whether Presidents come and go, even if they seem to always be on the TV political scene unlike the National Security State. Look at Hillary Clinton she came into the White House as the wife of a wandering eye President who had a long history of women claiming rape, sexual assault and affairs going back to when he was Governor of Arkansas.
He was given the Presidency by George H Bush due to his diligence as a Governor of a state that let CIA planes fly into his Mena airport, offload coke to be sold in the inner cities and then loaded up with Guns to be flown back south by pilot like Barry Seal for the Nicaraguan rebels.
It was a funny side note to find when the CIA did some clean up with Pablo Esobar's senior Sicarios and CIA pilots such as Seal with Colombian hit man, that they found the personal phone number of the then Vice President and ex CIA Chief George H Bush in his pocket. Very strange. Then again Ronald Reagan's wife calling out to kids to "Just say no" when offered drugs, when her husband was the biggest importer of cocaine into the country was just more pure US hypocrisy anyway.
The National Security State is full of people who are either too scared to speak out about all the illegal programs they are asked to work on, hacking and illegal wire taps unlike Bill Binney or Edward Snowden who went public, or the others who keep their heads down and ignore all the evidence of severe illegality caused by bribes through such institutions as the "Hillary Foundation". A Clinton plan that has gone from the 80's into the 2000's. A tool so that millions of Uranium could be sold to the Russians and Bill could be given half a million dollar handouts for speeches as a thank you. Pay off, you bet.
Plus there is a lot more that goes against the constitution like illegal assassinations, drones killings or the locking up of Americans without any habeas corpus, illegal wars without the approval of Congress and much much more shenanigans to speak about here.Many are too scared to speak out now that journalists like Max Blumenthal who was arrested for helping delivering water and food to protesters against the Venulzeluan CIA coup that isn't going too well. His site has already been removed from the web > http://maxblumenthal.com/cgi-sys/suspendedpage.cgi.
It seems that there is a war on liberty, free speech, protest, free movement and speaking out against the President in the US at the moment. The problem is we all know that if Hillary dared go for the Presidency again she would lose.
We all know there is little difference between Democrats and Republicans except maybe the Democrats are a bit more crazy and the Republicans see their job as really not doing anything but collecting a paycheck and sucking up to their President.
This is long away from the 50's black and white film where, Russian 3rd columns and a Manchurian candidate is brought in by the Soviets to play the All American, War Hero, Football Star and all good US boy.
No, now the Government is in tatters. The DNC can fraudulently conspire to ensure delegates and super delegates prevent the only person who could have beaten Trump at the last Presidential election, yes your right, Bernie Sanders, from standing again.
He was kept away from the money, the staff, the help and, a controllable security service where the FBI can just be told to go away when a foreign hack has supposedly just been exploited on the DNC servers. Quite a severe crime I would have thought for the FBI to ignore and allow Hillary to get away with.
If they meant the Russians had spent a few grand on Facebook adverts identifying the differences between Americans then maybe they could be let off, but when you have a dead DNC worker such as Seth Rich, shot at night and not even robbed. Then WikiLeaks leader Julian Assange goes on the Bill Maher show and almost broke down, even offering a reward sum for anyone who had knowledge of this crime. Something he has not done before. There has to be cookie crums to follow.
However he knows his history and he also knows the long list of dead bodies going back to Mena, Whitewater, The Presidency and all the other rumours for the long famed Clinton Kill List could have some basis in fact.
Check out the full list and details of why they were killed here. A grand total of 47 if you include Seth Rich.Clinton Kill List.
The Clintons KIll List
1 - James McDougal
2 – Mary Mahoney
3 – Vince Foster
4 – Ron Brown
5 – C. Victor Raiser, II
6 – Paul Tulley
7 – Ed Willey
8 – Jerry Parks
9 – James Bunch
10 – James Wilson
11 – Kathy Ferguson
12 – Bill Shelton
13 – Gandy Baugh
14 – Florence Martin
15 – Suzanne Coleman
16 – Paula Grober
17 – Danny Casolaro
18 – Paul Wilcher
19 – Jon Parnell Walker
20 – Barbara Wise
21 – Charles Meissner
22 – Dr. Stanley Heard
23 – Barry Seal
24 – Johnny Lawhorn, Jr.
25 – Stanley Huggins
26 – Hershell Friday
27 – Kevin Ives & Don Henry – Known as “The boys on the track” case
The Following people had information on the Ives/Henry Case:
What would be easier, than the whole #Russiangate conspiracy?
Getting some Ukrainian hacker to hack into DNC servers, extract embarrassing things about Hillary and even more emailed about Podesta and his sick ideas about Spirit Cooking and #Pizzagate unless you want a good spanking by the silicon MIC DNC nexus, which seemed to control everything at the last election.d Then slowly over international phone networks extract whole servers, or parts of them. Only to just pretend to be someone else with ties to an old hacker, before sending it once again to WikiLeaks (Iceland isn't it?), just for them to expose it and take the blame as Julian Assange will surely be doing soon.
However it would have been a lot simpler for a DNC worker, hard to the grindstone, who stumbled across nefarious DNC play sheets, sick emails, ways to ensure Hillary would be their Democratic candidate whatever happened due to super delegates to stick in a USB stick, copy the data and then send it over TOR or other ways to WikiLeaks. It would take a lot of time for a foreign hacker to get through all those AWS and Firewalls. However someone inside the building could easily extract the data and walk out with it to hand it over to someone that could expose it. The shame was that somehow he was probably traced or tracked and killed over his discretion to go public with DNC playbook to get Hillary to be the Democratic candidate for 2016.
The problem was that in the 2016 election the Orangutan managed to beat the warmonger.
Trump promised not to start any new wars unlike Obama and Hillary, this didn't go down well with the MIC who make billions from such coups, wars, selling weapons to the government, pretend insurrection's and worse. However the majority of the people liked his message. They wanted jobs back in the USA, and despite troubles with China he is still working on it. They wanted a wall to stop immigrants coming it and despite a slow start he has made progress.
Employment is up and so is the stock market but in reality who cares about stocks than stockbrokers making their own money. They gave Trump constant platitudes, telling him he would be a great President, a modern day Sirus, a new kind of Republican leader, and of course how thick and luscious his blond hair is.
Of course he is a total numpty, a man void of self awareness, who thinks of himself in terms of grandeur and historical lines going back to Jewish myths of King Syrus and bending over as far as he could for AIPAC and the Israelis happy.
From the Democratic perspective this was all a DNC plan to put the worst idiot up as the Republican nominee, someone the National Security Agencies weren't happy about and someone Hillary could easily beat. However it was not to be and she will be crying into her empty beds pillows for the rest of her life for letting that conman and total tool get away with running the country. How unhappy must she feel inside when she thinks about it.
You know that list that "Conspiracy Theorists" believe in. The one that claims almost 50 people are all dead who were somehow related to the Clinton's, Whitewater, Mena Airport, CIA coke imports, Bill's Affairs (and Hillary's Lesbian ones too), and people who may have just have over heard too much. We may not have heard the last name yet.
To me it wouldn't surprise me if Tulsi Gabbard on the way home in a car like that scared journalist, was suddenly hacked and then crashed with no way out.
It's not out of the realms of possibility. Bernie is too old to bother to murder and the others haven't attracted Hillary's wrath as much as Tulsi has so far calling her a Russian agent and a Manchurian candidate, with Tulsi replying that she was a chicken hawk, sending soldiers like her to their deaths without a care in the world. Is that not a true statement?
If only the people who wanted the wars would fight them then we would live in a peaceful society, would you ever expect to see Donald Trump in a ring with President Assad, or Hillary Clinton in an arm lock with President Putin?
To me it seems as if Hillary is dipping those dirty death toll toes into a Democratic neo-liberal war mongering offshore manufacturing pool of death, just to see if a late run against maybe Biden might be in the offering. Their DNC rules do state that a compromise candidate can be offered at their convention if needs be.
If only Henry Wallace had got his name up before Truman 60 odd years ago, then maybe we wouldn't have wasted half a century in a pointless cold war, where the rules were fixed and the MIC on all sides were build up so much that the common people were forgotten about, used as donkeys in wars led by Lions, paid a pittance, and both female and male had to fight the authorities, sometimes to the death, just to get reasonable rights, justice and pay for their work.
Anyway this is not a historical article, although I could go on for ages about the wars between the poor and the rich. Hillary Clinton is definitely rich, fact 100%; So is her weakening HIV looking husband who now just needs a new friend now that Jeffrey Epstein apparently hung himself in a cell with sheets too short to reach the ceiling, guards incidentally asleep and his cell mate out for the night.
Well that's what happens when you run an international sex ring of sex slaves for the likes of Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, Prince Andrew and the many others he rinsed out for dollars. In this day and age where the rule of Constitutional law doesn't apply anymore in Trumps USA, anything can happen. He could have been killed by a stray pack of Lima's for all we know. What we do know is that the family of Jeffery had their own autopsy carried out which disputed the official autopsy, but then who do you think the Government will take as the official report.
Anyway getting back to the villain of the article, we all know Hillary is backed by her war mongering corporations, non healthy GMO+ foods, expensive HMO companies, and university loan sharks who don't want free college but $100,000's of debt on a student leaving university to pay off (plus interest).
So what more is there for the Democratic Corporatist to love about this ancient hypocrite and liar who probably needs at least 6 body doubles to take on road trips just in case she falls asleep in mid-air again, before hours later kissing a young girl with a supposedly contagious flu like virus.
The Duran
The Duran is a programme I watch on YouTube that has in depth analysis on news of the day, from discussion about Brexit and American politics, to Russian diplomats, their leader Putin, and the seeming escapades he has got the US out of lately despite the Deep State trying to do everything they can to take him down from Military advisers resigning or being sacked for insubordination.
Then there is the whole "Russia Gate" scandal which turned out to be nothing but a farce and probably from the looks of things at the moment, a more Ukrainian Democratic Scandal in which they kept Hillary's private DNC computers, with all the grot, sexual innuendo and spirit cooking from the Podesta emails WikiLeaks managed to put on the open market as well.
I guess it was just another Russian BOT with full knowledge of Podesta's Facebook accounts, the exact same terms used by Paedophiles in the FBI's sex unit where certain pizza toppings meant a different sexual encounter. This "Pizza Code", adult themed pictures and spirit cooking being imprinted all over the files and much much more which led to a Pizza parlour shooting in Washington.
Democratic workers at the DNC really should have had all their computers sealed off, disks duplicated and all log files from their routers taken to be analysed. You never know they may have found it was a lot easier to detect Seth Rich as the worker who inserted a USB stick to download emails before sending them to WikiLeaks than it would have been for a Russian GRU unit to deploy full forces on finding out black southerners don't really appreciate white cops killing them.
Anyway the Duran has some more analysis worth looking into as Clinton, probably with a hired nurse right now injecting some disease into Joe Biden's veins, are working out which of their Democratic allies can be taken out with simple smears of "Communist Stooge", as Jimmy Dore, and Lee Camp were last time. Just 2 comedians who were labelled such in 2016 by main papers as people who want to split the Democratic vote by voting Green.
No it's supposed to be the political parties that come to you and ask what you want and what you can help them with. Hillary just thought that standing there on a stage being booed by half the crowd, a reason she had to hire in fake supporters to chant her name,
How dare she accuse them of getting their listeners to go and vote with their consciousness for once and not what colour your dads favourite jumper was. Susan Suranden is a famous person who was also blamed for Green Party of the United States presidential candidate Jill Stein, a criticism she still has not lived down.
However what is the point in supposedly voting for the left leaning party in the USA when there is literally no difference between the Democrat faux liberals and the Republican neo-con right wingers.
Both want increased spending (above what the US military asked for) in the US Armed forces
Both are backed by huge lobbying companies who are trying to get their clients "face time" and interest in their products accepted by the party.
Both when it comes to war seemingly wet themselves on TV when they see huge mega bombs kill families and kids, all in a country they have no right to be in.
Both, if you can call it that, "left wing" and "right wing" media hacks will surround them at events offering faux pax and fake intel as well as offers to smear their opponents and shine the heavenly light on them.
Both are into private prisons, high medication cost, fuel breaks from tar sand pipe lines.
Both see themselves as "a break from the past", a "middle of the road" candidate who couldn't sway too far either left or right as the country is "fractured" and "needs to come together"
This is despite polls showing that Hillary Clinton will always start polling Trump at 50% but then she will never rise. She will only have figures on a downward trajectory,
This is what seems crazy to me you have in the Democratic Party a variety of congresspeople who are further to the left like Bernie Sanders and others who are pretty far up GOP representatives ass-holes trying to "form unified bonds" and "lets get on together".
Well this time it hopefully won't work as not only will Hillary get stinky fingers when she removes them from the water but her plans to paint US Veteran Tuksi Gabbard as a Russian agent just won't work.
Not only is Hillary a Chicken Hawk, something that Tulsi should use at her in debates over and over, but fighting in the middle east for the US/Israel has always been about stopping Russian influence and leaving the US CIA/MI6/Mossad backed Jihadists, such as ISIL, who they created along with Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states, shipping them weapons from the Libyan war / massacre right into their hands.
One thing that can be said for Tulsi is that she has fought in combat whereas Hilary hasn't. She just laughs when the news is presented that Col Qaddafi has been found, sodomised and then killed. It that the sort of psychopathic person you want leading your troops back in DC, and then interviewing straight away how they "Came, they bombed, they killed him".
So we have the horrible choice of Hillary making a late entry, because she just can't get over the fact Doofus Donald beat her the 1st time. She went on an interview explosion over TV to explain how the Russians had done it not her. She was too good not to be President, just not good enough to connect with ordinary people, feel their pain over her last 8 years in recession, joblessness, homelessness, police on white violence, the environment and trying to stop World War 3.
The one good thing about Donald is that he seemed like the rest of the people in the southern red states, He said things he shouldn't have but didn't care. He stayed up until 4am writing text messages, offending world leaders and slagging anyone of who criticises him. However the one thing that he promised on the campaign road, not to start another multitude of wars like Obama and to bring troops home he has attempted,
He hasn't put more soldiers into Syria such as the recently left north east Syrian Turkish borders so that the well funded and armed YPG Kurds who were our allies, once and are know left alone for the Turks to come illegally into Syria, just like the USA and attacks their old title, the PKK, an international recognised terrorist organisation fighting for their own home land across the top of Iraq (another time we left them alone to face Saddam Hussein's gas), Syria and bottom ranges of the mountains where they are bombed constantly by Turkey.
He said quite Right after a tour of NATO countries, when he asked one why they didn't pay more into NATO and got the response "well we thought you were going to sort any trouble out". It probably pissed him off that they were being taken for mugs with only the US and UK paying any decent money into NATO or fighting with them, It was maybe the decision that made him decide to bring US troops home from Syria,
The MIC will be hating this obviously as continuous war means continuous profits. Plans may be a foot to get their neo-con Hillary to make a late entry but he promised not to start anymore wars like Obama, something the media are going crazy about...."Peace...what's that, we fight for our allies no matter how many trillions it adds to the national debt"
However Trump may have had to continue Obama's mess of wars and misery around the globe but at least he didn't start any new wars, and this is why both the Democrats and Republicans are so angry with him for pulling out of Syria. I don't know why, he campaigned on doing so, he has reduced troops and said forcibly that richly armed countries in the Middle East should take care of their own problems and not leave it all up to the US to police all the time,
Why Hillary is going after Tulsi Gabbard who only polls a few percent I don't know.
This an ex war veteran fighting for the highest office in the land, trying to prevent wars not create ever lasting ones. She should know more about wars and fighting them than an ancient chicken hawk like Hillary, who loves starting them but never joining in.
So I hope the following video from the Duran is entertaining in it's knock about between Tulsi and Clinton but I sure hope who supplied the DNC emails before the election is found out as far as I know there has been no investigation into Seth Richs's death.
This either means the deep state, found through a trackable USB stick and computer logs who it was, got the order from the boss Heir Hillary, and took him out removing the one thing that mattered the USB stick.So they could get ahead of it. Trying to claim a Russian would hack the DNC to get the data just to send it to WikiLeaks who then released it seems a bit over kill for me. I just hope Seth gets the justice he and his morals deserved.
Security on USB sticks needs to be drastically improved if this is this face of new sticks. Tiny hidden GPS nodes, code that are automatically inserted into the USB as soon as it's inserted into a new drive so it can be tracked. This world is turning into a technocratic world order, I just hope Russia and China can keep the USA in their place without starting pointless nuclear wars.
Tell me who is more fit to lead the US into military conflict, Hillary Clinton or Tulsi Gabbard in the comments below. A chicken hawk or someone who has made decisions on the battlefield,
I just hope the Democratic party just don't chose Hillary or another psychopath who laughed about the killing of Col.Gadaffi, or Joe Biden whose eye brows may fall off during a debate in between a heart attack recovery as a compromise candidate.
The text of the speech in full is at the bottom of the page but it has led commentators all around the world to denounce Julian Assange as just a sex offender trying to avoid justice whilst totally ignoring the rest of the relevant pieces surrounding his case.
Quotes about the speech:
"what was much more serious - the elephant in the room, so to speak - was Assange's wilful failure to say anything about the actual reason that the Swedish police want to question him." - Andy McSmith - The Independent.
"Odious Julian Assange loved every second of his pompous balcony rant. His speech was long on egotistical claptrap, but oddly failed to mention what this extradition case is actually about — the rape of one woman and sexual molestation of another." - The Sun
"Not since the Argentines invaded the Falklands has Britain had its tail so humiliatingly tweaked by a Latin American dictatorship. Suddenly, Ecuador is on the lips of people who previously would have struggled to find it on a map. All this merry mayhem is, of course, being orchestrated by Assange, who continues to play the British governing class for suckers." - Melanie Phillips - Daily Mail
"He's not going anywhere"' Metropolitan police officer.
In fact you would be hard pressed to find many mainstream media commentators giving a good word to Julian who is facing sexual assault charges - charges that the Ecuadorian President said the other day do not even exist on his countries law books - like many others.
Charges that relate to two WikiLeak "groupies" who had sex with Assange on consecutive nights and allowed him to have sex without a condom. They may have protested about that last bit once they found out about each other but not before and it seems a strange law to charge someone on in the first place. If we were arresting every man in the world who didn't like wearing a condom when having sex there would be very few men left.
However it seems these constitute crimes in Sweden and many people ask why Julian doesn't just go and face his accusers.
The answer is simple.
He is very, very afraid that the Swedes will pass him along to the the American's who are literally frothing at the mouth at the damage he has done to their national security. First by realising tapes of their pilots cheering as they massacred a crowd of reporters and men without guns in Iraq and then the WikiLeaks release of the #Cablegate stash of US embassy emails which have made many a Middle Eastern nation look like two faced liars who say one thing in public and another to their neighbours in private.
More worryingly for Assange is the way that the presumed source of the information a Private Bradley Manning has been treated by the US military. He has been stripped naked, held in a cell for many months without anything to do and basically treated in the most horrible way possible - some even claim this constitutes torture.
Therefore as the UK does not extradite to countries where there is the possibility of the death penalty and a multitude of US commentators and government employees have stated that he deserves two in the head. It is no wonder Julian is afraid of going to Sweden as he honestly believes it is a ruse to get him sent to the USA.
As no charges have actually been laid out against Assange and the Swedish police only want to "question him" it seems far fetched that in this day and age a compromise could not be made out which allowed for this questioning.
Over a hundred years ago there was this amazing invention called the telephone that allowed people at far distance from each other to communicate by voice.
In the last twenty years we have had Skype, Video Conferencing, Messenger and other tools that would allow for a full face to face interview that could be recorded, analysed and allow the Swedish police to ask their questions without any expensive plane travel.
But why should Julian Assange get special treatment you might ask.
Well he shouldn't and the the same rules should apply to all European citizens.
The European Arrest Warrant is a joke that allows Brits to be dragged from their beds and sent of to Eastern European jails on the say so of a Polish or Greek police commander.
Just like the unfair and unbalanced UK to USA extradition treaty. Which can see British people carted off to spend long time in orange jumpsuits without any evidence being examined in a UK court first as a US citizen has the right to before extradition here. Both of these extradition treaties should be abolished ASAP.
Therefore I don't say that Julian is just trying to avoid spurious charges that only emerged after each woman found out about the other but I say that he is blatantly scared shitless of being sent to the USA.
The Union of South American Nations said it backed Ecuador after Mr Assange publicly thanked it and other South American countries for their support.
A document agreed at the Union of South American Nations meeting said it supported the country "in the face of the threat" to its London embassy.
.. in the context of the UK's perceived heavy-handed approach to the recent question of Argentina's renewed claim over the Falkland Islands - the British government's reputation in South America was undoubtedly being affected by this stand-off.
As I predicted - the fact that a country with a far from clean human rights history is making supposed western liberal and free countries look like despotic dangers to world civility is a stain on our own moral standing across the world. Plus it has swelled the chest of Latin and South America to extreme proportions.
If the Brits storm the embassy they will look like criminals in the eyes of many countries - fairly or not and if they let Julian hop onto a plane to Ecuador they will look like sops in the eyes of the USA and a million Daily Mail readers eyes.
The best thing would be to come to a compromise as suggested by Ecuador's President Rafael Correa who suggested Mr Assange could co-operate with Sweden but only if assurances were given that there would be no extradition to a third country. Any breaking of such an agreement would make the USA look like the "great Satan" Iran always claims they are and it would allow Julian to fulfill his obligations to face Swedish police questions and possible charges.
Whatever happens it looks like a farce from both sides of the argument.
Here is the full text of Julian Assange's speech:
I am here today because I cannot be there with you today, but thank you for coming. Thank you for your resolve, your generosity and spirit.
On Wednesday night, after a threat was sent to this embassy, and police descended on this building, you came out in the middle of the night to watch over it, and you brought the world’s eyes with you.
Inside the embassy, after dark, I could hear teams of police swarming up into the building through the internal fire escape. But I knew that there would be witnesses and that is because of you.
If the UK did not throw away the Vienna Conventions the other night, it is because the world was watching and the world was watching because you were watching.
The next time somebody tells you that it is pointless to defend those rights we hold dear, remind them of your vigil in the dark before the embassy of Ecuador. Remind them how in the morning the sun came up on a different world, and a courageous Latin American nation took a stand for justice.
And so, to those brave people, I thank President Correa for the courage he has shown in considering and in granting me political asylum. And I also thank the government, and the particular Foreign Minister, Ricardo Patino, who have upheld the Ecuadorian Constitution and its notion of universal citizenship in their consideration of my asylum
And to the Ecuadorian people for supporting and defending this Constitution. And I also have a debt of gratitude to the staff of the embassy, whose families live in London, and who have been showing me hospitality and kindness despite the threats we’ve all received.
This Friday there will be an emergency meeting of the foreign ministers of Latin America in Washington, DC, to address this very situation. And so I am grateful to those people and governments of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Venezuela and to all other Latin American countries who have come out to defend the right to asylum.
To the people of the United States, the United Kingdom, Sweden and Australia, who have supported me in strength, even when their governments have not. And to those wiser heads in government who are still fighting for justice. Your day will come.
To the staff, supporters and sources of WikiLeaks, whose courage and commitment and loyalty has seen no equal.
To my family and to my children, who have been denied their father. Forgive me. We will be reunited soon.
As WikiLeaks stands under threat, so does the freedom of expression, and the health of our societies. We must use this moment to articulate the choice that is before the government of the United States of America.
Will it return to and reaffirm the revolutionary values it was founded on? Or will it lurch off the precipice, dragging us all into a dangerous and oppressive world, in which journalists fall silent under the fear of prosecution and citizens must whisper in the dark?
I say it must turn back.
I ask President Obama to do the right thing.
The United States must renounce its witch-hunt against WikiLeaks.
The United States must dissolve its FBI investigation.
The United States must vow that it will not seek to prosecute our staff or our supporters.
The United States must pledge before the world that it will not pursue journalists for shining a light on the secret crimes of the powerful.
There must be no more foolish talk about prosecuting any media organization, be it WikiLeaks or be it the New York Times.
The US administration’s war on whistleblowers must end.
Thomas Drake, and William Binney, and John Kiriakou and the other heroic US whistleblowers must — they must be pardoned and compensated for the hardships they’ve endured as servants of the public record.
And the Army Private who remains in a military prison in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, who was found by the United Nations to have endured months of torturous detention in Quantico, Virginia, and who has yet — after two years in prison — to see a trial—He must be released. Bradley Manning must be released. If Bradley Manning did as he accused, he is a hero and an example to all of us and one of the world’s foremost political prisoners. Bradley Manning must be released.
On Wednesday, Bradley Manning spent his 815th day of detention without trial. The legal maximum is 120 days.
On Thursday, my friend, Nabeel Rajab, president of the Bahrain Human Rights Center, was sentenced to 3 years for a tweet.
On Friday, a Russian band [Pussy Riot] was sentenced to 2 years in jail for a political performance.
There is unity in the oppression.
There must be absolute unity and determination in the response.
