Assange Extradition

These are the people we are dealing with, opening they show their anti democratic anti human rights tendencies.

In most of my posts I talk about the working class struggle for freedom. I talk abut the bourgeoisie and I talk about how Social Democracy will not work.

Mostly I get flack for it, but this is the truth right here, you can not negotiate with them, you can not seek reforms on their system. There is only one true answer to this, you have to completely replace their system. From the Government selection process to the economic system. Every single thing must be torn down and rebuilt.

From an interview yesterday with Assange:

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2011-02-24 Swedish Newspaper Aftonbladet Hosts Chat with Julian Assange Submitted by kgosztola on Thu, 02/24/2011 - 23:11

Kommentar från Maria:

What do you base your assumptions on that Sweden will send you to USA?

Julian Assange:

... Onwards extradition - to the United States - entirely a matter of politics. The Swedish Prime Minister has refused to block such an extradition, saying, falsely, that it is a matter entirely for the judiciary....

.... Now, while it is convention that an extradition from the UK or Sweden to the US would require the US to agree to not execute or torture me or other european-based WikiLeaks staff, any such diplomatic guarentee would be meaningless. Sweden went through that formalism with its CIA assisted extraditions to Egypt, which were immediately ignored. In the US many senior politicians have called for our assassination or life imprisonment. There are three bills before Congress and the Senate to do such things as declare us a "transnational threat", so all our staff can be treated like al-Quada - as "enemy combatants" and shipped off to Bagram or Guantanamo, etc. Nothing Sweden can politely ask for can stop this legislative risk.

http://wlcentral.org/node/1370

Bec.De.Corbin wrote:

I don't know anymore. I guess he's trying to say there is no chance he can be a whistle-blowing website owning hero AND a sexual predator scumbag at the same time. Believe him if you want, but not everything is politics and evil plots; people do run amuck on their own accord.

That is a totally nonsense dichotomy. Your reductionist hyperboli of "hero" and "scumbag" aside, and without going into the case in detail, positive public and negative personal activities are obviously not mutually exclusive.

Obviously, too, even positve and negative public activities can be seen  on there own merits. Witness, for example, Churchill the imperialist, willing to use poison gas  on the "less civilized tribes" in Iraq and his roll as a rallying figure against fascist Germany.

RT: Julian Assange: Roller Coaster Year - With Paul Craig Roberts

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuYLHCvM-7s&feature=player_embedded#at=54

In the Assange Case We Are All Suspects Now  -  by John Pilger

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30410.htm

"This month's Supreme Court hearing in the Julian Assange case has profound meaning for the preservation of basic freedom in western democracies. This is Assange's final appeal against his extradition to Sweden to face allegations of sexual misconduct that were originally dismissed by the chief prosecutor in Stockholm and constitute no crime in Britain.

The consequences, if he loses, lie not in Sweden but in the shadows cast by America's descent into totalitarianism..."

'Not For Pub': US Drew Up Secret Assange Charges - 425/

http://rt.com/news/us-assange-charges-indictment-stratfor-425/

"The US prepared a secret 'sealed indictment' on Julian Assange over a year ago. That comes from a recent Stratfor email leak published on a drip-drip basis by WikiLeaks. Stratfor's vice president for intelligence, Fred Burton, ended the speculation on whether the US could hook the WikiLeaks founder by saying:

'We have a sealed indictement on Assange', also calling for the sensitive information to be 'protected.'.."

Assange Loses Extradition Court Battle, 14 Days to Apply to Reopen Case (and vid)

http://www.rt.com/news/assange-extradition-sweden-uk-538/

"WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has lost his marathon court battle in UK Supreme Court. The judge has granted him 14 days to make an application to reopen the extradition case. Assange says the [sex crime] allegations are baseless and are founded on political motivations after his website released thousands of diplomatic cables and documents sparking outcry from world governments.

There are fears that Assange will eventually be transferred to the US, where he would join Private Bradley Manning, who is currently facing court-martial for handing over classified documents in the whistleblower's website.

Julian Assange Loses Extradition Appeal (and vid)

http://news.sky.com/home/uk-news/article/16238113

"WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can be extradicted to Sweden to face sex crime allegations, the Supreme Court has ruled.."

The politically compliant Supreme Court of the UK made the unusual 5 to 2 decision to extradite Assange (against whom there are still no charges laid) to Sweden, by interpreting the Swedish prosecutor's request  for extradition as being made by a "judicial authority".

David Hart QC in the UK Human rights blog summarizes the majority and minority decisions:

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Assange: does it matter if ministers mislead Parliament?

May 31, 2012 by David Hart QC

Assange v. The Swedish Prosecution Authority [2012] UKSC 22, read judgment

Today, the Supreme Court held that Julian Assange should be extradited to Sweden for alleged rape. This is subject to further submissions on one point (concerning the Vienna Convention on Treaties), well covered by Joshua Rozenberg in his post on the lively proceedings when the judgment was handed down.

The whole of the appeal turned on one technical point, simple to state, but it took the Court 266 paragraphs to answer. Was the European Arrest Warrant which triggered the extradition request signed by a”judicial authority,” given that it was signed by a prosecutor? Most English lawyers, unburdened with the detail, would say – no, a prosecutor is not a judicial authority, indeed he or she is the opposite of that, a party. But, according to the Supreme Court, they are wrong, and so are the ministers who told Parliament that a judicial authority has to be some sort of judge or court....

http://ukhumanrightsblog.com/2012/05/31/assange-does-it-matter-if-minist...

This legal charade will no doubt allow US-guided Sweden to extradite Assange to a US hell-hole, since secret extradition papers have already been revealed to be drawn up.  It is almost irrelevant whether or not Swedish charges will actually be laid against Assange.