{"id":46558,"date":"2019-06-06T06:50:32","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T11:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46558"},"modified":"2019-06-06T06:50:35","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T11:50:35","slug":"lawlessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46558","title":{"rendered":"Lawlessness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Lawlessness<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Pablo Picasso\u00a0Rest (Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Walter)\u00a0<\/strong>1932<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

With the news that Julian Assange is \u201cwasting away\u201d in Belmarsh prison hospital, and with UN rapporteur Professor Nils Melzer\u2019s report detailing how this happens, I\u2019m once again drawn towards the lawlessness that all \u201cauthorities\u201d involved in his case have been displaying, and with impunity. They all apparently think they are literally above the law. Their own laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But they can\u2019t be, nowhere, not above their respective national laws nor the international ones their countries have signed up to. They can\u2019t, because that would instantly make any and all laws meaningless. So you tell me where we find ourselves today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s this paragraph in an article by Jonathan Cook entitled Abuses Show Assange Case Was Never About Law<\/strong><\/a>, which lists \u201c17 glaring anomalies in Assange\u2019s legal troubles\u201d, that sums it all up pretty perfectly:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Australia not only refused Assange, a citizen, any help during his long ordeal, but prime minister Julia Gillard even threatened to strip Assange of his citizenship, until it was pointed out that it would be illegal for Australia to do so.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

See, Cook is already skipping a step there. Gillard didn\u2019t take Assange\u2019s citizenship away, because that is against Australian law, but it\u2019s just as much against Australian law for a government to let one of its citizens rot in some kind of hell. Still, they did let him rot, but as an Australian citizen. At that point, what difference does anything make anymore?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a pattern that runs through the entire Assange \u201cfile\u201d, and it does so to pretty astonishing levels. Where you\u2019re forced to think that the countries involved effectively have no laws, and no courts, because if they did, the actions by their governments would surely be whistled back by parliaments or judges or someone, anyone. They\u2019re all essentially lawless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lawlessness With the news that Julian Assange is \u201cwasting away\u201d in Belmarsh prison hospital, and with UN rapporteur Professor Nils Melzer\u2019s report detailing how this happens, I\u2019m once again drawn towards the lawlessness that all \u201cauthorities\u201d involved in his case have been displaying, and with impunity. They all apparently think they are literally above the […]<\/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":[14976,41,8739,3745,16424,26021,13924,26020,771,5177,1794,820,834],"class_list":["post-46558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-assange","tag-australia","tag-ecuador","tag-law","tag-lawlessness","tag-melzer","tag-raul-ilargi-meijer","tag-rogue-state","tag-sweden","tag-the-automatic-earth","tag-torture","tag-uk","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46558","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=46558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46559,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46558\/revisions\/46559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}