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"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it."
James Madison
"It does not take a majority to prevail ... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams
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Dum Spiro, Pugno
Tu ne cede malis sed contra audentior ito
Eventually, wherever he goes, he'll be paid a visit by dogs and seals...
Gulag Chief: "Article 58-1a, twenty five years... What did you get it for?"
Gulag Prisoner: "For nothing at all."
Gulag Chief: "You're lying... The sentence for nothing at all is 10 years"
And now from Faux Snooze,,
Ecuador's decision to grant Assange asylum is a bold act of hypocrisy
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/...#ixzz23kLcW3bM
Read it if you like, it is the usual rabid foam spittle you have come to expect.
I quoted the defining part.
Roger Noriega held senior positions in the State Department in the administration of President George W. Bush (2001-05) and is a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. His firm, Vision Americas LLC represents U.S. and foreign clients.
Roger F. Noriega was Ambassador to the Organization ofAmerican States from 2001-2003 and Assistant Secretary of State from 2003-2005. He is a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and managing director of Vision Americas LLC, which represents U.S. and foreign clients, and contributes to www.interamericansecuritywatch.com
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/...#ixzz23kLIpyz8
Liberty is lost through complacency and a subservient mindset. When we accept or even welcome automobile checkpoints, random searches, mandatory identification cards, and paramilitary police in our streets, we have lost a vital part of our American heritage. America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.
Ron Paul 2004
Registered Ron Paul supporter # 2202
It's all about Freedom
Current update.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012...=NECNETTXT8187
Liberty is lost through complacency and a subservient mindset. When we accept or even welcome automobile checkpoints, random searches, mandatory identification cards, and paramilitary police in our streets, we have lost a vital part of our American heritage. America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.
Ron Paul 2004
Registered Ron Paul supporter # 2202
It's all about Freedom
I've been praying for Assange today.
Assange Or Corzine?
Priorities are a bitch.
The United States won’t prosecute Corzine for raiding segregated customer accounts, but will happily convene a Grand Jury in preparation for prosecuting Julian Assange for exposing the truth about war crimes.
[...]
But the issue at hand is the sense that we have entered a phase of exponential criminality and corruption. A slavering crook like Corzine who stole $200 million of clients’ funds can walk free. Meanwhile, a man who exposed evidence of serious war crimes is for that act so keenly wanted by US authorities that Britain has threatened to throw hundreds of years of diplomatic protocol and treaties into the trash and raid the embassy of another sovereign state to deliver him to a power that seems intent not only to criminalise him, but perhaps even to summarily execute him. The Obama administration, of course, has made a habit of summary extrajudicial executions of those that it suspects of terrorism, and the detention and prosecution of whistleblowers. And the ooze of large-scale financial corruption, rate-rigging, theft and fraud goes on unpunished.
Based on the idea of natural rights, government secures those rights to the individual by strictly negative intervention, making justice costless and easy of access; and beyond that it does not go. The State, on the other hand, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing.
--Albert J. Nock
I may not agree with Wikileaks over on Sryia, but i do however support Assange, Wikleaks has been hijacked by the Gov.
Pinochet killed 1000's of innocent civilians in next door Chile. Was there ever an Interpol global warrant on the brutal dictator? Nope!
US butcher Henry Kissinger, backed El dictator Puppet Pinochet with covert weaponry and and American tax dollars to kill Chileans. Henry Kisser is wanted for WAR CRIMES and the death of 1000s across the globe in multiple countries. Did the UN or Interpol ever issue warrants for the arrest of Henry Kissinger? NOPE!
The Hypocrites are the Evil motherfuckers residing in Washington DC and New York City terrorizing and raping the world, then creating a double standard...
PS: $#@! Fascist FOX NEWS...
PSS: Sweden has never issue an arrest for Julian Assange, they want him extradited to "so-call question him" with obviously, they can't do by Skype/IM/or news station cameras. Such BS... you know it's for TPTB to execute him in the US and make an example for all in the world to not $#@! with the most ruthless mafioso regime in the world.
The American Dream, Wake Up People, This is our country! <===click
"All eyes are opened, or opening to the rights of man, let the annual return of this day(July 4th), forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them."
Thomas Jefferson June 1826
Rock The World!
USAF Veteran
Very apt tweet off twitter:
seanbedlam @seanbedlam
Foreign Office refuses to grant Assange safe passage. You know what's foreign? The feeling that Ecuador is the Free World.
"Integrity means having to say things that people don't want to hear & especially to say things that the regime doesn't want to hear.” -Ron Paul
"Bathtub falls and police officers kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we've been asked to sacrifice our most sacred rights for fear of falling victim to it." -Edward Snowden
Haha, exactly what I was thinking yesterday. Just drive the car in the plane!
But why can't the embassy just order like 200 large boxes and for a week have them coming in and coming out randomly, then when their attention is focused on him trying to sneak out in a boxe just walk him out the front door with a disguise.
Last edited by JVParkour; 08-17-2012 at 06:17 AM.
Ecuador grants Julian Assange citizenship.
After living more than five years inside the embassy, he has met Ecuador's three year residency requirement for citizenship.
"Let it not be said that we did nothing." - Dr. Ron Paul. "Stand up for what you believe in, even if you are standing alone." - Sophie Magdalena Scholl
"War is the health of the State." - Randolph Bourne "Freedom is the answer. ... Now, what's the question?" - Ernie Hancock.
Liberty is lost through complacency and a subservient mindset. When we accept or even welcome automobile checkpoints, random searches, mandatory identification cards, and paramilitary police in our streets, we have lost a vital part of our American heritage. America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.
Ron Paul 2004
Registered Ron Paul supporter # 2202
It's all about Freedom
"Let it not be said that we did nothing." - Dr. Ron Paul. "Stand up for what you believe in, even if you are standing alone." - Sophie Magdalena Scholl
"War is the health of the State." - Randolph Bourne "Freedom is the answer. ... Now, what's the question?" - Ernie Hancock.
Hope he makes it... I wouldn't put it past US goobermint to "accidently" shoot down his plane.
Don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein
Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler
Groucho Marx
I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.
Linus, from the Peanuts comic
You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith
Alexis de Torqueville
Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it
A Zero Hedge comment
Julian Assange latest: Arrest warrant for Wikileaks founder is still valid, judge rules
In a string of tweets posted following the decision, Mr Assange dismissed "wall to wall fake news stating stating the government won today's hearing".
He added: "Nothing of the sort has happened. The hearing is still happening. Only one point has been ruled on."
"Judge has ruled against the first technical point the court now expected to hear and decide on the other points," Mr Assange said in another tweet.
Following the judgment, Mr Assange's lawyer Mark Summers QC argued that his case should be discontinued because it was not proportionate in the interests of justice.
He argued that the bail act offence he may face is not in the public interest, while the judge noted that it would be normal for the defendant to be present for that kind of hearing.
Mr Summers said it was "unusual to have asylum within this country" but that the court could continue without him in this case.
Upon arguing the public interest in dropping the warrant, he said Mr Assange had reasonable grounds or justification for failing to surrender.
He said the UN has ruled that his situation is “arbitrary, unreasonable, unnecessary, and disproportionate”
Mr Summers added that Mr Assange's conduct did not paralyse the underlying criminal proceedings and the time he has spent in the embassy could be seen to be punishment enough.
He also told the court that Mr Assange has toothache which cannot be operated on, a frozen shoulder which causes constant pain and is suffering from depression.
Mr Summers also highlighted that Mr Assange has access to a balcony but not an exercise yard which is a bare minimum even in prison.
The judge wryly observed that there would be access to medical care in HMP Wandsworth. The case was adjourned until next Tuesday when the judge will rule on the latest application by Mr Assange's lawyer.
More at: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/j...-a3759516.html
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein
Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler
Groucho Marx
I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.
Linus, from the Peanuts comic
You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith
Alexis de Torqueville
Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it
A Zero Hedge comment
In a pivotal moment for Wikileaks' founder Julian Assange's long-running legal battle to regain his freedom after spending the last six years without sunlight at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, a UK judge delivered a disappointing ruling for Assange's defense team.
After repudiating Assange's lawyers characterization of the circumstances of his confinement, the judge has rejected his bid to have the warrant dropped, upholding the state's case against the renown political dissident - who violated the terms of his bail in 2012 to show up at the Ecuadorian embassy disguised as a motorcycle courier.
Judge refuses to withdraw Julian Assange arrest warrant. https://t.co/FQJJ4hxKzxThough the process isn't over yet, the judge's ruling that he had no reason to fear extradition to the US is a huge blow to his case for having the UK warrant dropped. In particular, the judge said Assange could leave the embassy whenever he liked, could have unlimited visitors, could choose when he eats and sleeps and exercises and even had access to sunlight via a balcony. Assange's lawyers had also argued that his years inside the embassy were "adequate" punishment for any crimes he may or may not have committed.
— Julian Assange ⌛ (@JulianAssange) February 13, 2018
Gasps in public gallery as judge says Assange can ‘leave the (Ecuadorian Embassy) whenever he likes, have unlimited visitors unsupervised, can choose when he eats, sleeps and exercises’. She’s knocking down most of Assange case to have arrest warrant dropped #Assange #wikileaksSweden dropped rape charges against Assange nearly 10 months ago, but the UK has refused to let him off the hook. In fact, reporters discovered that Sweden wanted to drop its pursuit years ago, but was persuaded to continue by Assange...
— Lisa Millar (@LisaMillar) February 13, 2018
According tothe Guardian, Assange also suspects there is a secret US grand jury indictment against him and American authorities will seek his extradition.
Jonathan Cook: The UK’s hidden role in Assange’s detention https://t.co/xzo4Cdc2Ny pic.twitter.com/485OtJ7xUiIt appears as if the UK arrest warrant will be left in place, as Assange suggested in a tweet.
— Julian Assange ⌛ (@JulianAssange) February 13, 2018
Not looking good. So far, judge is just defending UK state actions.
— Julian Assange ⌛ (@JulianAssange) February 13, 2018
A bid to lift the arrest warrant last week was rejected when Judge Emma Arbuthnot rejected the notion that Sweden’s dropping of the case against Assange meant that the British authorities should no longer want him in custody. His defense team is arguing that Assange's further detention would not serve justice. Assange has argued that if he hadn’t fled to the embassy, he would have been extradited to the US to face an unfair trial for his work, which he believes is essentially not different from investigative journalism.
In December, Assange received Ecuadorian citizenship, but the UK indicated it would not recognize his diplomatic status if requested by the Latin American nation, denying Assange the diplomatic immunity that would've allowed him to leave.
The UN has twice ruled that Assange is being improperly detained in the UK, and investigative work done by an Italian journalist uncovered malfeasance at the Crown Prosecution Service.
The judge also said that, if extradition motions were taken against Assange, he would be able to contest those.
To be sure, the process isn't over yet. Assange noted that even if he loses the first point, the hearing may immediately continue on another...
Today, 2pm GMT, 9am EST, judge rules on whether to lift my UK arrest warrant following revelations of improper conduct by the UK government. Note that a win is a win, but even if we lose the first point today the hearing may immediately continue on another https://t.co/LFGCOIS2ev
— Julian Assange ⌛ (@JulianAssange) February 13, 2018
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-...arrest-warrant
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein
Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler
Groucho Marx
I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.
Linus, from the Peanuts comic
You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith
Alexis de Torqueville
Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it
A Zero Hedge comment
"Let it not be said that we did nothing." - Dr. Ron Paul. "Stand up for what you believe in, even if you are standing alone." - Sophie Magdalena Scholl
"War is the health of the State." - Randolph Bourne "Freedom is the answer. ... Now, what's the question?" - Ernie Hancock.
Julian Assange is in immense danger. Remarks made this week by Ecuador’s foreign minister suggest that her government may be preparing to renege on the political asylum it granted to the WikiLeaks editor in 2012 and hand him over to British and then American authorities.
On March 28, under immense pressure from the governments in the US, Britain and other powers, Ecuador imposed a complete ban on Assange having any Internet or phone contact with the outside world, and blocked his friends and supporters from physically visiting him. For 45 days, he has not been heard from.
Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Maria Fernanda Espinosa stated in a Spanish-language interview on Wednesday that her government and Britain “have the intention and the interest that this be resolved.” Moves were underway, she said, to reach a “definite agreement” on Assange.
If Assange falls into the hands of the British state, he faces being turned over to the US. Last year, US Attorney General Jeff Sessions stated that putting Assange on trial for espionage was a “priority.” CIA director Mike Pompeo, now secretary of state, asserted that WikiLeaks was a “non-state hostile intelligence service.”
More at: https://www.globalresearch.ca/ecuado...the-us/5640357
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein
Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler
Groucho Marx
I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.
Linus, from the Peanuts comic
You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith
Alexis de Torqueville
Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it
A Zero Hedge comment
Waiting to see over sized 'Diplomatic Bag' trying to crawl out of the embassy.
Last edited by AZJoe; 10-15-2018 at 07:20 AM.
"Let it not be said that we did nothing." - Dr. Ron Paul. "Stand up for what you believe in, even if you are standing alone." - Sophie Magdalena Scholl
"War is the health of the State." - Randolph Bourne "Freedom is the answer. ... Now, what's the question?" - Ernie Hancock.
Ecuador restores Assange’s communications after 7-month blackout – WikiLeaks
https://www.rt.com/news/441243-assan...tored-ecuador/
Last edited by goldenequity; 10-15-2018 at 07:55 AM.
Julian Assange is taking legal action against the government of Ecuador, accusing it of violating his “fundamental rights and freedoms”.
While this might appear like 'biting the hand that feeds and shelters you' Assange's lawyer notes his client's poor health and new more restrictive rules for asylum have forced them to take action.
The move, as The Guardian reports, follows a deterioration in relations between the Ecuadorian government and the Wikileaks founder, who was granted refuge at Ecuador’s London embassy in 2012 while he was on bail in the UK over sexual assault allegations against him in Sweden.
He was reportedlygiven a set of stringent new house rules by the London embassy, including cleaning his bathroom and taking better care of his cat (threatening to confiscate the pet if he did not look after it).
Assange must obtain approval for all visitors from diplomatic staff three days in advance. He is expressly banned from activities that could be “considered as political or interfering with the internal affairs of other states”, according to a memo seen by the Guardian.
In a statement, Wikileaks said:
"Ecuador's measures against Julian Assange have been widely condemned by the human rights community."As The BBC reports, it claims the government of Ecuador refused a visit by Human Rights Watch general counsel Dinah PoKempner and had not allowed several meetings with his lawyers.
Mr Assange's lawyers also said they were challenging the legality of the Ecuador government's "special protocol" - which makes his political asylum dependent on "censoring" his freedom of opinion, speech and association.
More at: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-...ental-freedoms
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein
Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler
Groucho Marx
I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.
Linus, from the Peanuts comic
You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith
Alexis de Torqueville
Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it
A Zero Hedge comment
On Wednesday, the top-ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Relations Committee sent a threatening letter to Ecuadorian President Lenín Moreno insisting that he “hand over” Assange to the “proper authorities” as a precondition for improving relations with the United States.
In a bipartisan letter, Eliot Engel, a New York Democrat, and former Foreign Relations Committee Chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Florida Republican, declared:
“We are very concerned with Julian Assange’s continued presence at your embassy in London and his receipt of Ecuadorian citizenship last year.”Engel’s role makes even more explicit the leading part being played by the Democrats in the drive to lock away Assange for good and silence WikiLeaks itself. In June, on the eve of a visit to Ecuador by Vice President Mike Pence, 10 Democratic Party senators called on the Trump administration to demand that the Ecuadorian government renege on the political asylum it provided Assange six years ago.
Written in bullying and contemptuous language, the Engel-Ros-Lehtinen letter warns that any further “significant progress” and “warming” in Washington’s relationship with Moreno’s government on a “wide range of issues,” including “economic cooperation” and financial aid, depends on Ecuador terminating Assange’s political asylum.
More at: https://www.globalresearch.ca/leadin...ssange/5657579
Tell me more about how wonderful the Demoncrats are on civil rights.
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein
Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler
Groucho Marx
I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.
Linus, from the Peanuts comic
You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith
Alexis de Torqueville
Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it
A Zero Hedge comment
Immigrant enters foreign country (an Embassy is considered foreign soil), requests asylum, and wants free housing, food and medical care. Assange wants it, that is a good thing. People from Ecuador ask for it, everybody panics and wants to call out the military.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/j...y-food-n922531
Julian Assange fights asylum terms dictating he has to pay for food, cat care
The new terms say that because of budget cuts, the embassy is no longer able to pay medical, laundry or food costs associated with Assange's stay.
QUITO, Ecuador — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has filed a lawsuit in Ecuador against new terms of asylum in the Andean country's London embassy that require him to pay for medical bills and phone calls and to clean up after his pet cat, his lawyer said Friday.
Ecuador created the new protocol governing his stay at the embassy this month. Assange's attorney, Baltasar Garzón, said at a news conference in Quito that the rules were drawn up without consulting Assange, an Australian national, who sued Foreign Minister Jose Valencia in a Quito court to have them changed.The protocol stipulates new terms for Assange that include limits on how many visitors he can receive and when. It also says that because of budget cuts, the embassy is no longer able to pay medical, laundry or food costs associated with Assange's stay and that he has to keep his living area and bathroom clean, as well as pay for his pet cat's food and wellbeing.
Last edited by Zippyjuan; 10-22-2018 at 05:27 PM.
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