“Murderers, torturers and war criminals will be toasting the British home secretary, Priti Patel, tonight. Her decision to approve the extradition of Julian Assange turns investigative journalism into a criminal act,.."Peter Oborne - The Guardian Friday 17th June 2022 
The ultimate international whistleblower is to be handed over to the US,where he will get anything but justice, for his ‘crimes’ of exposing the US for murder and incarcenation of innocents breaching internationally upheld laws to protect the most basic human rights.
If investigative journalism is now a crime,we have turned a very dark corner in a post truth age.
A Tory government colluding is hardly surprising but what are citizens going to do? Accept & fail to maintain standards of human rights we assert as the basis of our civilisation?
A Tory government colluding is hardly surprising but what are citizens going to do? Accept & fail to maintain standards of human rights we assert as the basis of our civilisation?
Allow war crimes on one side while condemning them on another?
Shooting the messenger in this case throws us all under the bus. What did Assange expose that has made him public enemy number one?
Shooting the messenger in this case throws us all under the bus. What did Assange expose that has made him public enemy number one?
Remember we are at the stage here (albeit a very lengthy one) where the establishment have been caught but are smearing the whistleblower. We know that stage, when McCabe was publicly denounced! When many of our own whistleblowers are dismissed/turned on in the workplace or media
Victimisation goes hand in hand with exposing the truth but here the stakes are so much higher, not just for the individual but on an international level.
What did Assange expose?
What did Assange expose?
Guantánamo Bay. He revealed the fact that more than 150 entirely innocent inmates were held for years without even being charged.
He published a video of helicopter gunmen laughing as they casually massacred unarmed Iraqi civilians in an attack that killed around 15 people, ..
He published a video of helicopter gunmen laughing as they casually massacred unarmed Iraqi civilians in an attack that killed around 15 people, ..
Including a Reuters photographer & assistant.
US declined to discipline perpetrators of that atrocity. But they are pursuing Assange to the ends of the earth for revealing it took place.
U.S. military killed 100s of civilians during war in Afghanistan in undisclosed incidents.
US declined to discipline perpetrators of that atrocity. But they are pursuing Assange to the ends of the earth for revealing it took place.
U.S. military killed 100s of civilians during war in Afghanistan in undisclosed incidents.
The political backdrop can’t be ignored here, nor can the power of war mongers in the current NATO climate. There is unfinished business with the US and it does not rest on the head of one whistleblower. #freeassange #whistleblower
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