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The Prosecution Of Julian Assange Is Infinitely Bigger Than\u00a0Assange<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Julian Assange\u2019s mother reported yesterday<\/a> that the WikiLeaks founder has not been permitted any visitors during his detention in Belmarsh Prison, including from doctors and his lawyers. Doctors who visited Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy have attested<\/a> that he urgently needs medical care. Belmarsh is a maximum security prison sometimes referred to as \u201cthe UK\u2019s Guantanamo Bay<\/a>\u201c.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And yet we\u2019re asked to believe that this has something to do with an alleged bail violation and a US extradition request for alleged computer crimes carrying a maximum sentence of five years. If you zoom out and listen to the less-informed chatter of the overt propagandists and the brainwashed rank-and-file western mass media consumers, you will also see that people believe this has something to do with Russia and rape allegations as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Actually, none of these things are true. Assange is being imprisoned under draconian conditions for journalism, and\u00a0for journalism only<\/a>. The Obama administration\u00a0declined to prosecute him<\/a>\u00a0after WikiLeaks\u2019 publication of the Manning leaks out of concern that doing so would endanger press freedoms, and the Obama administration\u00a0didn\u2019t have any more evidence<\/a>\u00a0at its disposal than the Trump administration has now. The \u201ccrime\u201d Assange is accused of consists of nothing other than\u00a0standard journalistic practices<\/a>\u00a0that investigative journalists\u00a0engage in all the time<\/a>, including source protection and encouraging the source to obtain more material. The only thing that has changed is an increased willingness in the White House to prosecute journalists for practicing journalism, and there are an\u00a0abundance<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0reasons<\/a>\u00a0to believe that he will be hit with\u00a0far more serious charges<\/a>\u00a0once extradited to US soil. They\u2019re not going to all this trouble for a bail violation and a five-year maximum sentence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Prosecution Of Julian Assange Is Infinitely Bigger Than\u00a0Assange Julian Assange\u2019s mother reported yesterday that the WikiLeaks founder has not been permitted any visitors during his detention in Belmarsh Prison, including from doctors and his lawyers. Doctors who visited Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy have attested that he urgently needs medical care. Belmarsh is a maximum security prison sometimes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[25684,17039,2239,462,2001,880],"class_list":["post-45554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-belmarsh","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-freedom-of-the-press","tag-journalism","tag-julian-assange","tag-wikileaks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45555,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45554\/revisions\/45555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}