Thread by @flemingjude

That shocking moment when you realize, "There really *is* a monster under the bed."

Assange has an aversion to the US meat-grinder monster of injustice.

He is right to fear such a reaper.
But now everyone knows he's right.

As of last night...

The plausibility that Assange's life + liberty are in peril and that he faces possible cruel/inhumane torture is great.

Anyone who says he is free to walk out of the embassy needs to complete the sentence with "into the jaws of US injustice".

It must be difficult for Assange to actually see the copied/pasted text of a sealed indictment against him. Paradoxically, it is likely a relief. At least now, people can all agree that his reason for skipping bail appearance to go into asylum is the US pursuit of he + @wikileaks

Mike Pompeo (former CIA guy) and Gina Haspel (current CIA gal) are likely freaked out about this leak or mistake which makes the sealed indictment pretty much public fact. Pompeo is deflecting attention from Assange and shining it on Snowden and journalist Sarah Harrison.

Mike's little tv appearance this morning "showed his hand" in so far as he referred to journalist/human rights defender Sarah Harrison as a @Wikileaks agent or "spy girl". It would be cute. Except. Bloody Gina.

Gina would love to meet Sarah Harrison. I bet she hasn't ever tortured a woman up close and personal the way she did in the CIA blacksite a few years ago.

Mike signalled that he wants to cast a wider net of indictments. Not "Just Julian" but also "Sweet Spy-Girl Sarah".

Snowden is a legitimate human rights defender who was greeted by human rights orgs upon his exit from the Russian airport with journalist Sarah Harrison.
Ms. Harrison chose to be a permanent *witness* and advocate for his human rights and an envoy of Wikileaks. She is a hero.

According to @JohnKiriakou it is quite probable that as the UK prolongs Assange's arbitrary detention, the US has an operation ready to mobilize upon Assange's arrest or surrender to UK police/ medical emergency personnel.

My simplified version: Assange is under duress / coercion to leave the embassy.
He is subject to extremely strict protocols. If he breaches any rule/protocol, that is "cause" for dismissal/expulsion or for UK police/EMS staff to enter embassy to take him into UK custody

Once he is either in a police van or ambulance (same thing at this point), CIA are at the ready, likely already in London UK now on stand by; Assange is "processed" as a prisoner, gets some medical att'n, a court date is set up to face Lady Arbuthnot in court...

for seeking asylum instead of following bail conditions in June 2012 -- for an arrest warrant that is formally revoked by a country that never laid charges and has dropped its investigation.

While Assange awaits his "court date" with Lady A, CIA operatives are permitted special access to him. They would want to assess him, access medical reports and interrogate him. UK medical doctors and staff would be closely supervised and interrogated. Ecuador would feel relieved

Ecuador would then expect to "collect" on its successful delivery of the Target (Assange).
Assange would appear publicly for a stupid bail hearing. He will be sentenced to maximum detention, Lady A has had time to fudge the duration limits since Feb 2018, in the meantime

... the US would unseal the indictment, charges against Assange and any Wikileaks associates/staff or supporters would become public, an extradition warrant would be issued, Assange + team would fight it and lose (given EAW treatment). Eventually JA goes to USA for trial.

My best guess is that JA would be in UK custody and detention for a couple of years, Australia continues to be negligent toward his human rights as well as refuse to release documents under FOIA, multinational press releases are coordinated to smear him (US, UK, Aus, Ecud)

The Mob does the Mobbing of Assange while the cowards (fake journalists), Australian politicians and pacified members of the public look on.
The ambivalent become more ambivalent while the Mobbers Mob.
I've been writing about the Mobbing of Assange since 2010.

Main player in the Mob against Assange:

US and varied branches of DoJ, CIA, NSA et. al.
US claims right of hot pursuit.
May even render him (abduct/kidnap) to bring him to US soil.

Minor players but very important roles:
UK
Australia
Ecuador

For a more comprehensive, cerebral and legal analysis of the nightmare implications of prosecuting Assange and decimating the First Amendment, read this by @ggreenwald. theintercept.com/2018/11/16/as-…

So, to focus on what's happening NOW:

Assange is dying in the embassy. He still needs urgent evacuation and repatriation to Australia, his home country.
Ecuador is tightening the noose around his neck, coercing him to surrender to police or make an infraction of new rules

Assange's legal team still has to surrender digital devices + identifiers, visitors surrender digital devices, information is collected by Ecuador and shared with Mobster US and minor-mobster countries (UK, Aus)

But no one can deny that:

The UN's ruling in his favour should be enforced.
His life and liberty are at risk.
He risks torture in the US
There is no possibility of impartiality in UK courts
The IACHR ruled he deserves safe passage

Assange's greatest fear is that he winds up in the US meat-grinder of injustice where he will face certain torture, life imprisonment, corruption and become the DoJ's trophy in the hunt to eradicate truth + transparency.
Trump, Pompeo, Haspel et. al. are Trophy Hunters

Matt Dehart is in jail well past his release date. @FreeMattDehart
He did not commit a crime. He pled guilty to protect his family and get closure.
He is a victim of torture. He is a trophy sitting in a prison because the US gov't refuses to abide by its own plea deal.

Chelsea Manning endured years of torture and injustice.
Matt DeHart endured years of torture and injustice.

If Assange, Snowden, Sarah Harrison, Joseph Farrell or @khrafnsson ever get into US custody, the pattern will repeat.

Fight for Press Freedom and Human Rights.