{"id":68756,"date":"2024-06-27T17:25:36","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T22:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68756"},"modified":"2024-06-27T17:25:36","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T22:25:36","slug":"assange-is-free-but-justice-has-not-been-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68756","title":{"rendered":"Assange Is Free, But Justice Has Not Been Done"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-header\">\n<h3 class=\"post-title unpublished\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caitlinjohnst.one\/p\/assange-is-free-but-justice-has-not\">Assange Is Free, But Justice Has Not Been Done<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"available-content\">\n<div class=\"body markup\" dir=\"auto\">\n<div class=\"captioned-image-container\">\n<figure>\n<div class=\"image2-inset\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F33beac76-4220-457c-99a7-ae55931a3694_1080x565.png 424w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F33beac76-4220-457c-99a7-ae55931a3694_1080x565.png 848w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F33beac76-4220-457c-99a7-ae55931a3694_1080x565.png 1272w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F33beac76-4220-457c-99a7-ae55931a3694_1080x565.png 1456w\" type=\"image\/webp\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"sizing-normal\" src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F33beac76-4220-457c-99a7-ae55931a3694_1080x565.png\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F33beac76-4220-457c-99a7-ae55931a3694_1080x565.png 424w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F33beac76-4220-457c-99a7-ae55931a3694_1080x565.png 848w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F33beac76-4220-457c-99a7-ae55931a3694_1080x565.png 1272w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F33beac76-4220-457c-99a7-ae55931a3694_1080x565.png 1456w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"565\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/33beac76-4220-457c-99a7-ae55931a3694_1080x565.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:565,&quot;width&quot;:1080,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:262830,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null}\" \/><\/picture>\n<div class=\"image-link-expand\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZpUNXEuhXUY\" rel=\"\">Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley)<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n<div id=\"youtube2-ZpUNXEuhXUY\" class=\"youtube-wrap\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;ZpUNXEuhXUY&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}\" data-component-name=\"Youtube2ToDOM\">\n<div class=\"youtube-inner\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/ZpUNXEuhXUY?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0\" width=\"728\" height=\"409\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Julian Assange\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Stella_Assange\/status\/1805393089819033890\" rel=\"\">is free<\/a>. As of this writing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Stella_Assange\/status\/1805539379924132110\" rel=\"\">he is en route<\/a>\u00a0to the Northern Mariana Islands, a remote US territory in the western Pacific, to finalize a plea deal with the US government which will see him sentenced to time served in Belmarsh Prison. Barring any\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Stella_Assange\/status\/1805531527113011437\" rel=\"\">shady shenanigans<\/a>\u00a0from the empire in the process, he will then return to his home country of Australia a free man.<\/p>\n<p>Importantly, according to experts I\u2019ve seen commenting on this astonishing new development it doesn\u2019t appear that his plea deal will set any new legal precedents that will be harmful to journalists going forward. Joe Lauria\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2024\/06\/24\/julian-assange-is-free\/\" rel=\"\">reports the following<\/a>\u00a0for Consortium News:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cBruce Afran, a U.S. constitutional lawyer, told Consortium News that a plea deal does not create a legal precedent. Therefore Assange\u2019s deal would not jeopardize journalists in the future of being prosecuted for accepting and publishing classified information from a source because of Assange\u2019s agreeing to such a charge.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"captioned-image-container\">\n<figure>\n<div class=\"image2-inset\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb06e83db-14c1-4b28-a114-2f4548ce0f4c_1116x1356.png 424w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb06e83db-14c1-4b28-a114-2f4548ce0f4c_1116x1356.png 848w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb06e83db-14c1-4b28-a114-2f4548ce0f4c_1116x1356.png 1272w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb06e83db-14c1-4b28-a114-2f4548ce0f4c_1116x1356.png 1456w\" type=\"image\/webp\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"sizing-normal\" src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb06e83db-14c1-4b28-a114-2f4548ce0f4c_1116x1356.png\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb06e83db-14c1-4b28-a114-2f4548ce0f4c_1116x1356.png 424w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb06e83db-14c1-4b28-a114-2f4548ce0f4c_1116x1356.png 848w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb06e83db-14c1-4b28-a114-2f4548ce0f4c_1116x1356.png 1272w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb06e83db-14c1-4b28-a114-2f4548ce0f4c_1116x1356.png 1456w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1116\" height=\"1356\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/b06e83db-14c1-4b28-a114-2f4548ce0f4c_1116x1356.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1356,&quot;width&quot;:1116,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:1063185,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null}\" \/><\/picture>\n<div class=\"image-link-expand\"><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"image-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Stella_Assange\/status\/1805393089819033890\" rel=\"\">https:\/\/x.com\/Stella_Assange\/status\/1805393089819033890<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>I\u2019ve obviously got a lot of big feels about all this, having followed this important case so closely for so long and having put so much work into writing about it. There\u2019s so very, very much work to be done in our collective struggle to liberate the world from the talons of the imperial murder machine, but I am overjoyed for Assange and his family, and it feels good to mark a solid win in this fight.<\/p>\n<p>None of this undoes the unforgivable evils the empire inflicted in its persecution of Julian Assange however, or reverses the worldwide damage that has been done by making a public example of him to show what happens to a journalist who tells inconvenient truths about the world\u2019s most powerful government.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assange Is Free, But Justice Has Not Been Done Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): Julian Assange\u00a0is free. As of this writing\u00a0he is en route\u00a0to the Northern Mariana Islands, a remote US territory in the western Pacific, to finalize a plea deal with the US government which will see him [&hellip;]<\/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":[17039,2001,1383],"class_list":["post-68756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-julian-assange","tag-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68756","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=68756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68757,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68756\/revisions\/68757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}