Thread by @Melbourne4Wiki

When you understand the facts of the #Assange case and the lies and deception; the daily dose of hypocrisy and finger-pointing becomes insufferable. The injustice keeps you up at night. The atrocities turn into nightmares.

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A thread. 🧵

#ItsTime to #FreeAssange

The terror and terrible treatment of others, stays with you.

The truth is a burden.

It is hard then to imagine what it must be like for #JulianAssange with all that he knows and no voice or ability to right the wrongs or to defend himself. To be silenced—

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— and punished by those committing the crimes. This must already bear heavily upon him.

Assange has had no internet access since it was taken from him (along with other 'privileges') in March 2018, while in the Ecuadorian Embassy. This happened—

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#FactsMatter

— after Lenin Moreno succumbed to financial bribes and mounting pressure from the U.S. and IMF. All part of a grander scheme to cause further distress and revoke Julian Assange's legitimate political asylum.

This 'allowed' for London Metropolitan Police—

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— to storm the Ecuadorian Embassy (sovereign territory) on 11 April 2019 to 'arrest' him on a bogus 'bail skipping' charge, in connection with false Swedish allegations.

It's all a FARCE.

To further humiliate and denigrate Assange—

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#ItsTime
#DropTheCharges

— in front of the world, they had alerted mainstream media and taken his shaver away three months prior. His unkempt appearance matched the smears and allegations of having neglected his cat and smeared faeces on the walls. One might think with all the cameras—

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— and recording equipment installed by UC Global at the behest of then CIA director, Mike Pompeo, that there would be some evidence of this, but there isn't.

Because it didn't happen.

There is no limit to the lawlessness and depravity in this case.

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Ongoing and arbitrary detention and psychological torture. Ill-treatment and deprivation of liberty. Violation of justice, due-process and human rights. Avenged and persecuted by criminal actors.

Thirteen long years.

This political persecution must STOP.

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When you hear the Australian Government saying this is not a political matter, it is a LIE. So is the idea that it 'cannot intervene'.

The ONLY way to #FreeJulianAssange is to rally public support into pressuring the gov't into REAL ACTION.

With a LOUDHAILER.

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