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Topic History of: The new CrucifiXion, of Jesus ASSANGE Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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Murray (not Andy)
The Assange extradition case is an unprecedented attack on press freedom – so why’s the media largely ignoring it?
Assange and WikiLeaks did everything journalists should do by finding out important information about US government misdeeds and handing it over to the public
Craig Murray Full Statements on last day of the Assange Case - about Assange's suffering, the injustice, the hypocrisy of a system that punishes a publisher of war crimes but not the war criminals, the terrifying overreach of the US, and the threat to us all :
"In following these days of trial we've heard a huge amount of detail that has demolished the prosecution arguments day after day after day. Let's step back now at the end and take a view of the larger picture of what is happening here. Julian Assange has been suffering terrible deprivation of liberty. He's been suffering conditions amounting to torture. His ordeal goes on and on and all because he published the truth.
There is no allegation in that courtroom that anything he published was a lie. Everything he published was true and much of that truth revealed terrible crimes, war crimes and crimes against humanity and lies and corruption by government and not one of the people who committed those war crimes is on trial anywhere.
Instead we have the man who had the courage to reveal those war crimes is the one whose liberty is at stake and that is not right. And the world must say that is not right.
We also have a situation where at the time he did this publishing Julian Assange was nowhere near the United States. The United States is claiming a universal jurisdiction to swoop down anywhere in the world and destroy the life of anybody who publishes things it does not want revealed. And this ridiculous claim of universal jurisdiction should not be accepted or tolerated for a moment in a British court, let alone granted all the panoply of justice so-called which is defending this indefensible situation.
We've also seen the Unites States government in prosecuting argue in terms argued directly that the First Amendment does not protect journalists. They have argued in detail that the Pentagon Papers judgment would not say the New York Times could not have been prosecuted under the espionage act.
They are claiming the right to prosecute for espionage any journalist, anywhere in the world who reveals national security information and national security information about a state which constantly invades other states is information which is necessary to the liberty of everyone.
We have been here, we have seen the law fighting in the halls of justice, we have seen the activists fighting outside and this campaign will go on because the campaign for Julian's freedom is the campaign for the freedom of everyone!"
~ Craig Murray, former Ambassador, Historian and Humanitarian
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