Assange could serve no more jail time if he pleads guilty:

[Matt Collins]

https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/jul...drama-09c6ff83

[ClaytonB]

We are watching a global criminal syndicate crucify an innocent man on patently false charges, meanwhile, we all go on paying our speeding tickets and taxes like good little citizens dealing with a legitimate (or at least, non-criminal) government. Who can we blame but ourselves?

Real civil disobedience has nothing to do with "burn it all down, man". One does not even need to stick his neck out so far as to break any law requiring payment of taxes, and so on. Merely working less hours and working for less pay, and using the time freed up to engage with political resistance like RPF, LPMC, etc. is a path of civil disobedience. Most people can afford to work less, or take a lower paying (and lower requirements) job, thus loosening the omnipotent State's manacles on their wrists somewhat. When we do this en masse, it is the equivalent of a worker's strike, or a slave revolt. The individual cost is high, since we have to accept a lower standard-of-living, and we are increasing our financial risks in retirement saving. Nevertheless, when we are faced with a government that has resurrected the old redcoat tyranny, and has become an existential hazard to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, then the time has come to stop playing word-games, and start punching the tyrants in the bread-basket.

Rest assured, they've gamed out every scenario except you and I voluntarily taking a pay-cut and intentionally reducing our standard-of-living in order to face the tyrants. This need not be a permanent measure, either. Most of us are in a situation where we can afford to start pushing back against the State and hitting them where it hurts the most: in the pocketbook. Growing your own vegetables is not an abstract threat to the Establishment... they fear it because they know it's a real threat. Which is precisely why we should be doing it. And doing more business with those who are doing it. And doing less business with the big box (government-friendly) establishments. None of this is easy. None of this can be done in a "no-sacrifices" way. And none of it will happen automatically. But it can happen. As Malice says, that victory is not impossible is the white-pill. We can win.

Assange is a living demonstration of the level of resolve that is required in order to resist them. We must be prepared to stand and die, for reals. And the fact that these are the stakes underscores the centrality of the Gospel in the fight against tyranny. As William Wallace says in Braveheart: "Fight and you may die. Run and you’ll live, at least a while. And dying in your beds many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance, just one chance to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they’ll never take our freedom!" And you won't be able to face down the redcoats and stand for freedom even at the cost of death, if you do not know that you have eternal life through the Gospel. Everyone has something to lose except the believer, who has nothing to gain except heaven. This world has nothing left to offer us, enthralled as it is in the clutches of the devil. And that is precisely why we are able to fight for freedom, because we are able to fight to the death, truly. Better to die and return to God than to live a slave to the devil in this filthy pit of darkness. Nor is this a call to suicidal recklessness, far from it. The point of war is not to die for your country, as Patton famously said, it is to make the other poor, dumb bastard die for his country.

And even if all you can manage in the war against tyranny is to encourage one another in resistance, to shake each other out of doomerism and black-pilling, every act of encouragement is a bullet fired directly at the enemy's position. The war against Assange is a dramatic demonstration of this - they have been waging a war of attrition against him, etching away at his morale and his resolve, day upon day, week upon week, year upon year, decade upon decade. "Just admit your guilt. Just confess that you have broken the law. All of this can go away in a moment, just sign here and confess." These are methods honed by the Jesuits centuries ago. And even though they are (probably) not using the rack, the strappado and the waterboard, when you are in prison, your wardens have an infinite palette of invisible methods of torture available to them, an art perfected in the Gulag, by the Stasi, and at Gitmo. Fortunately, we are still living in a historical moment where mass-torture is beyond what the public will bear, so they have to focus their ire only on a few, select, key targets. Assange is being subjected to the treatment they want to subject everyone who visits this forum to. And so is Trump. And so is Snowden. And so are the J6 political-prisoners. There is nothing whatsoever abstract or rhetorical about the current situation. We are really, and actually in a present condition of warfare. The tyrants who have hijacked the levers of power in this country really mean to imprison, torture and kill every last one of us who will not go along with the bug-eaters and their Beast World Order.

Since we have this last remaining inch of breathing-space, let us invest every particle of energy at our disposal -- mental, emotional, economic and spiritual -- to hit these wicked tyrants in the hardest possible way. Assange published the facts about what the criminal network-of-evil is really up to. That's why they hit him back. Many of us have specific knowledge of what they are really up to. There are ways to communicate that information without giving them any legal basis to come after you. Put on your thinking cap and get creative. Jeremiah Denton blinked "TORTURE" in Morse-code while reading a forced political propaganda message on television. NEVER GIVE UP, NEVER GIVE IN. And do not shrink back from striking them because if you do not strike them now, they will not show you mercy later on, and every blow that we do not land upon them now only increases the probability that they could win and institute the global Marxist tyranny they have been working for decades centuries to institute.

Those who are believers can hit the wicked tyrants in the hardest possible way by getting into the word of God, working out our salvation (sanctification), and then demonstrating the Gospel to those around us not only by our words, but especially by our actions. Actions speak louder than words. And those who are not believers should consider faith because I promise you that everything else you do to resist tyranny is just throwing rocks at a tank, compared to the RPG of faith. And for everyone, believer or unbeliever, upright living counts for more than all the food and ammo stockpiles you can ever store up. Leaving the enemy without any charge to bring against us, legally or morally, is a critical part of resisting tyranny because that is the simplest and easiest way for the tyrant to remove you from the battlefield: legal charges or scandal. They're playing dirtier than you can imagine, as dirty as it is possible to play. Assange is a living demonstration of this.

Don't just sit on your hands. Find out how you can actively contribute to resisting tyranny and do it. Even if all you can do is blink in Morse code, do it. Even if all you can do is pray, do it. Even if all you can do is encourage each other and keep up morale, do it. One of these days, it may be you in the jail cell, waiting for any sign of hope and encouragement from the outside. Make no mistake, this is no ordinary war, this is spiritual war!

[acptulsa]

People who admitted to being witches survived the Salem witch trial. The deadly part wasn't the sentence, it was the trial. People didn't want the truth, they wanted to not be contradicted.

[Anti Globalist]

And in exchange for no more jail time, the Deep State will send an assassin to kill him.

[GlennwaldSnowdenAssanged]

And in exchange for no more jail time, the Deep State will send an assassin to kill him.

Wrong.
People like Assange do not get assassinated, they commit suicide.

[jmdrake]

https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/jul...drama-09c6ff83

I can't say I would blame him if he took the deal.

[ClaytonB]

Wrong.
People like Assange do not get assassinated, they commit suicide.

I mean, suiciding someone is still assassination, just using slightly different means.

[PAF]

The Empire Slowly Suffocates Assange Like It Slowly Suffocates All Its Enemies

By Caitlin Johnstone
CaitlinJohnstone.com
March 28, 2024


The British High Court has ruled that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange may potentially get a final appeal against extradition to the United States, but only within a very limited scope and only if specific conditions are met.

The court ruled that Assange may appeal only on the grounds that his freedom of speech might be restricted in the US, and that there is a possibility he could receive the death penalty. If the US provides “assurances” that neither of these things will happen, then the trial moves to another phase where Assange’s legal team may debate the merits of those assurances. If the US does not provide those assurances, then the limited appeal will move forward.

Absurdly, the court determined that Assange’s lawyers may not argue against extradition on matters as self-evidently critical as the fact that the CIA plotted to assassinate him, or on the basis that he is being politically persecuted for the crime of inconvenient journalism.

The mass media are calling this a “reprieve”, even “wonderful news”, but as Jonathan Cook explains in his latest article “Assange’s ‘reprieve’ is another lie, hiding the real goal of keeping him endlessly locked up”, that’s all a bunch of crap.

“The word ‘reprieve’ is there — just as the judges’ headline ruling that some of the grounds of his appeal have been ‘granted’ — to conceal the fact that he is prisoner to an endless legal charade every bit as much as he is a prisoner in a Belmarsh cell,” writes Cook. “In fact, today’s ruling is yet further evidence that Assange is being denied due process and his most basic legal rights — as he has been for a decade or more.”

Cook writes the following:

“The case has always been about buying time. To disappear Assange from public view. To vilify him. To smash the revolutionary publishing platform he founded to help whistleblowers expose state crimes. To send a message to other journalists that the US can reach them wherever they live should they try to hold Washington to account for its criminality.

“And worst of all, to provide a final solution for the nuisance Assange had become for the global superpower by trapping him in an endless process of incarceration and trial that, if it is allowed to drag on long enough, will most likely kill him.”

This kind of slow motion strangulation is how the empire operates all the time these days, across all spheres. Helping Israel starve Gaza while slowly pretending to work toward solutions. Drawing out a proxy war in Ukraine for as long as possible to bleed Russia. Slowly killing Assange in prison without trial under the pretense of judicial proceedings.

The US-centralized empire hunts not like a tiger, killing its prey with one fatal bite to the jugular, but more like a python: slowly suffocating the life out of its prey until it perishes. It favors the long, drawn-out, confusing strangulation of inconvenient populations and individuals, carried out under the cover of bureaucracy and propaganda spin. In today’s world it prefers sanctions, blockades and long proxy conflicts over the big Hulk-smash ground invasions we saw it carry out in places like Iraq and Vietnam.

These slow suffocations can take more time, but what they lack in efficiency they make up for in the quality of perception management. It’s bad PR to just openly invade countries and murder people, which is why the leaders of the western empire have been able to wag their fingers at Putin despite their being quantifiably far more murderous than Russia. People start snapping out of the propaganda matrix you spent so much time building for them and begin organizing against the political status quo your power is premised on.

So they opt for slow strangulation strategies where they can confuse the public about what’s happening and who’s responsible, outsourcing the blame to other parties while posing as the good guy who’s trying to bring peace and stability. It takes time, but the empire has time to burn. That’s what happens when you’re the most powerful empire in the history of civilization; you have the luxury of biding your time while orchestrating large-scale, long-term operations to advance your power agendas.

Meanwhile Gaza starves, Ukraine bleeds, and Assange languishes in prison, each needing this to end with more urgency every day.


https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/03/...l-its-enemies/

[CaptUSA]

[PAF]

The Most Astounding Feature of the Assange Case

By Paul Craig Roberts
PaulCraigRoberts.org
March 29, 2024


The most extraordinary thing about Julian Assange is that he is being treated as if he were an American citizen. “Treason” was the original cry, now converted to “espionage.”

There was no espionage. Wikileaks published, and made available to the New York Times, The Guardian, and other media organizations leaked information. The media organizations published the information, just as did Wikileaks, but they are not charged. Neither is Wikileaks charged. Only Julian Assange is charged.

Nothing is any different from Ellsberg releasing the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times. The US government wanted to prosecute both, but was prevented by the First Amendment and long-accepted duty of media organizations to hold government accountable. The stark deterioration in the protective power of the First Amendment and journalistic freedom since 1971 demonstrates the rise in tyranny. Tyranny is what Julian Assange is experiencing, not a legitimate prosecution.

Let’s carefully examine the issue of “espionage.” Espionage is a function of every embassy everywhere in the world. The purpose of embassies is not simply to represent a country’s commercial and political interests. It is also to collect information, the more sensitive the better. When embassy personnel are caught engaging in espionage, the personnel are required to leave the country. They are not prosecuted.

It is well known that US embassies contain CIA agents posing as diplomats. Under the protocol governing the Assange case, Russia, China, any number of countries could arrest members of US embassies and put them on trial. Indeed, many countries could do this to one another. What prevents it is not merely good judgment, but the fact that foreign citizens are not subject to the laws of other countries. Only the US, which imagines itself as some kind of international unipower, asserts the worldwide primacy of its laws. This is an absurd claim and has no legal basis.

The orchestrated, in fact legally incorrect, case against Assange is based on nothing but Washington’s demand for revenge. Here is what Assange is guilty of: He released leaked information that showed conclusively that the United States government is a liar, a deceiver of its allies, and a war criminal. The purpose of the case against Assange is to pay him back and to intimidate all journalists from ever again publishing information unfavorable to the US government.

In other words, the purpose of the Assange case is to end forever the ability of media to hold government accountable. The Assange case is the fundamental foundation for tyranny. Once it is in place, tyranny is unleashed.

That so many dumb$#@! “patriots” support “getting Assange” indicates complete stupidity. “Getting Assange” means getting themselves, and they are too stupid to see it.

This is how freedom is murdered. See this.


https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/03/...-assange-case/

[Occam's Banana]

SPLIT THREAD: [SPLIT] Trump & Julian Assange

[Occam's Banana]

CLIP from SYSTEM UPDATE #248:

Assange Wins Very Partial Victory in UK Court, w/ Stella Assange
https://rumble.com/v4lw2u2-assange-w...a-assange.html
{Glenn Greenwald | 27 March 2024}