Duplicitous British judiciary, revengeful American bully and unbowed Assange
It was a marvel WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, was still standing this Monday, January 4, 2021 as British courts stopped his extradition to US, where he is guilty even before making a plea. WikiLeaks has been firing from all cylinders propelling a universal movement exposing secrets the powerful and the corrupt want concealed from humanity. In the last decade, Assange had holed up for seven years in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London where his view of the world was from the balcony. He has spent subsequent time in the Belmarsh Prison, London, where he is still being held because two days after his victory, the same court denied him bail pending the appeal of the Americans. All these have negatively rubbed off on his physical and perhaps mental health. In these ten years, his life was constantly endangered not only by the high possibility of some of the deadliest secret services in the world abducting, poisoning or liquidating him, but also rogue elements trying to make their nightmare, history. In a sane world, rather than being hunted and endangered, Assange would have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for significantly advancing Article 19 of the United Nations Human Rights Declaration. That Article states: “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.” How many humans have sacrificed so much for the right to freedom of expression and information like Assange? How many have struck heavier blows against naked power, the powerful and the corrupt than Assange? He is more deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize than Barack Obama who got it one year into… Read More
