Assange Is Free, But Justice Has Not Been Done by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2024-06-26 at 01:45:47 )

Assange Is Free, But Justice Has Not Been Done by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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Julian Assange is free. As of this writing he is en route to the Northern Mariana Islands, a remote United States territory in the western Pacific, to finalize a plea deal with the United States government which will see him sentenced to time served in Belmarsh..

Barring any shady shenanigans from the empire in the process, he will then return to his home country of Australia a free man.

Importantly, according to experts I have seen commenting on this astonishing new development it does not appear that his plea deal will set any new legal precedents that will be harmful to journalists going forward. Joe Lauria reports the following for Consortium News:

"Bruce Afran, a United States constitutional lawyer, told Consortium News that a plea deal does not create a legal precedent. Therefore Mr. Assanges deal would not jeopardize journalists in the future of being prosecuted for accepting and publishing classified information from a source because of Mr. Assanges agreeing to such a charge."

Julian is free!!!!

Words cannot express our immense gratitude to YOU- yes YOU, who have all mobilised for years and years to make this come true. THANK YOU. tHANK YOU. THANK YOU.

Follow WikiLeaks for more info soon."please see here:"- Stella Assange #FreeAssangeNOW (Stella_Assange) June 25, 2024

I have obviously got a lot of big feels about all this, having followed this important case so closely for so long and having put so much work into writing about it.

There is so very, very much work to be done in our collective struggle to liberate the world from the talons of the imperial murder machine, but I am overjoyed for Mr. Julian Assange and his family, and it feels good to mark a solid win in this fight.

None of this undoes the unforgivable evils the empire inflicted in its persecution of Julian Assange however, or reverses the worldwide damage that has been done by making a public example of him to show what happens to a journalist who tells inconvenient truths about the worlds most powerful government.

So while Mr. Julian Assange may be free, we cannot rightly say that justice has been done!

Justice would look like Mr. Julian Assange being granted a full and unconditional pardon and receiving millions of dollars in compensation from the United States government for the torment they put him through by his imprisonment in Belmarsh beginning in 2019, his de facto imprisonment in the Ecuadorian embassy beginning in 2012, and his jailing and house arrest beginning in 2010.

Justice would look like the United States making concrete legal and policy changes guaranteeing that Washington,D.C. could never again use its globe-spanning power and influence to destroy the life of a foreign journalist for reporting inconvenient facts about it, and issuing a formal apology to Julian Assange and his family.

Justice would look like the arrest and prosecution of the people whose war crimes Mr. Assange exposed, and the arrest and prosecution of everyone who helped ruin his life for exposing those crimes. This would include a whole host of government operatives and officials across numerous countries, and multiple United States presidents.

Approaching Bangkok airport for layover.

Moving closer to freedom.#AssangeJet "please see here:"-WikiLeaks (wikileaks) June 25, 2024

Justice would look like a heros welcome and a heros honors from Australia upon his arrival, and a serious revision of Canberras obsequious relationship with Washington,D.C..

Justice would look like formal apologies to Mr. Julian Assange and his family from the editorial boards of all the mainstream press outlets which manufactured consent for his vicious persecution - including and especially The Guardian - and the complete destruction of the reputations of every unscrupulous presstitute who helped smear him over the years.

If these things happened, then we could perhaps argue that justice has been served to some extent.

As it stands all we have is the cessation of one single act of depravity by an empire who is only backing off to make room for newer, more important depravities.

We all still live under a globe-spanning power structure which has shown the entire world that it will destroy your life if you expose its criminality, and then stand back and proudly call this justice.

So I personally think I am just going to take this one small victory in stride with a quick "thank you" to the heavens and get back to work. There is still so much to do, and vanishingly little time to do it!

The fight goes on!

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