“Guantanamo Justice” in Britain (from Sunshine Press)
“19 June 2015 marks three years since Julian Assange, an Australian citizen, entered the embassy of Ecuador in London. He was granted political asylum under the 1951 Refugee Convention … Mr. Assange risks extradition to the US from both the UK and Sweden. He has been detained—without charge—in prison, under house arrest and in the embassy for nearly five years. He has not seen the sun in three years, as the embassy has no outdoor area. …”
For the entire statement from Sunshine Press, see:
https://justice4assange.com/3-Years-in-Embassy.html
Ray Comment:
The British say they will arrest Assange the minute he steps outside the Ecuadorian Embassy.
I am reminded that the now defunct Magna Carta, while mocked by the New York Times on its 800th anniversary four days ago – see: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/15/opinion/stop-revering-magna-carta.html?_r=0 – has still not been given a proper burial. Shame on Britain, where the English once had the backbone to stand up to a king.
It is time to end the pretense. There should be a proper funeral, memorial service, and burial for the Magna Carta after eight centuries of protecting the human rights now denied to Julian Assange, to those in Guantanamo and to thousands of others now aping our new form of “democracy.”
The lawless U.S. “Justice” Department now plays the role of king, and British lawyers shame their ancestors, as well as their profession, in bowing low to carry out Washington’s diktat regarding Julian Assange – as in so many other matters.
Sadly, this should come as no surprise. London’s agile lawyers did backflips to apply a veneer of legality to “justify” the U.S./U.K. attack on Iraq, launching what the post-WWII Nuremberg Tribunal defined as a “war of aggression” with its “accumulated evil” of kidnapping and torture, in which the British also cooperated.
“British Law” has become an oxymoron. And only a moron could be blind to the reality that Britain’s servile lawyers are putty in Washington’s hands. U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch had no business being at Runnymede on June 15 to mark the 800th anniversary of the sealing of the Magna Carta. Neither did the queen, nor any of today’s much more malleable British barons.