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Assange Is The Only One To Abide By The Law<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Salvador Dali\u00a0Self portrait\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>1921<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

On October 21 2019, Brexit became an entirely irrelevant issue. Or perhaps we should say it had already become that, but on that date it was exposed for all to see that it was. The parading into a courtroom of Julian Assange in London was all the evidence one could need that the UK government breaks its own laws as well as numerous international laws, with impunity. But that is not how the media reported on it, if it did at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And so, the core issue behind Brexit, i.e. who makes Britain\u2019s laws, turned to nothing. If your government breaks its own laws all the time, what does it matter where those laws are made? They are meaningless anyway. Whether they come from Brussels or London make no difference if the government and judicial system don\u2019t abide by them. Those million men marches for a Final Say look totally ridiculous once that reality sinks in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can\u2019t get the picture of Julian Assange as he looked on Monday out of my head. I\u2019ve written so much about him, tried so hard to find support for him, and now to see him withered away and perhaps not strong enough to see the end of his own extradition hearing is heartbreaking. So let\u2019s go through the whole thing again; it\u2019s not like I could write about anything else right now. I was thinking again yesterday about a song I used\u00a0in an earlier article about Julian<\/strong><\/a>, I Fought the Law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n