jackbarron
Chelsea, London
Good to see Corbyn has come out publically against extradition now too
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47904837
It's right for Corbyn, and therefore Labour I guess, to be against the extradition of Assange to America. The latter's lawyer captures why.
"Assange's lawyer, Jennifer Robinson, said they would be fighting the extradition request. She said it set a "dangerous precedent" where any journalist could face US charges for "publishing truthful information about the United States".
"She said she had visited Assange in the police cells where he thanked supporters and said: "I told you so."
"Assange had predicted that he would face extradition to the US if he left the embassy."
It was obvious an attempt to extradite Assange would happen. This is why he refused, he said, to go back to Sweden to be interviewed about allegations of rape and molestation. I personally think he should have trusted the Swedish legal system. He undermined his credibility by not going.
I am inclined to believe what Carole Cadwalladr has talked and written about for years: that there is an ideological and/or financial link between Assange, Wikileaks, Cambridge Analytica, Trump, Putin, Fagage, UKIP, Aaron Banks and the rest of them.
Tony put up a link to Carole's 2017 Guardian article Trump, Assange, Bannon, Farage… bound together in an unholy alliance a few pages ago. It is worth reading. As time has passed more and more of her deductions and predictions have turned out to be true. https://www.theguardian.com/comment...nnon-farage-bound-together-in-unholy-alliance
Jack