Both Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange are now in jail, both over offenses related to the publication of materials specifying U.S. war crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq, and both charged with nothing else at all.
Manning and Assange are true heroes of our time, and are suffering for it.
District Judge Michael Snow is a disgrace to the bench who deserves to be infamous well beyond his death.
He displayed the most plain and open prejudice against Assange in the 15 minutes it took for him to hear the case and declare Assange guilty last week, in a fashion which makes the dictators' courts I had witnessed, in Ibrahim Babangida's Nigeria or Isam Karimov's Uzbekistan, look fair and reasonable, in comparison to the gross charade of justice conducted by Michael Snow.
Julian Assange said nothing during the whole brief proceedings, other than to say "Not guilty" twice, and to ask a one-sentence question about why the charges were changed midway through this sham "Trial." Yet Judge Michael Snow condemned Assange as "Narcissistic."
To support the persecution of Assange in these circumstances is to support absolute state censorship of the internet.
Assange was nowhere near the USA when he published the documents, but nonetheless U.S. courts are willing to claim jurisdiction.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-16/assanges-judge-disgrace-bench-former-uk-ambassador-says
Manning and Assange are true heroes of our time, and are suffering for it.
District Judge Michael Snow is a disgrace to the bench who deserves to be infamous well beyond his death.
He displayed the most plain and open prejudice against Assange in the 15 minutes it took for him to hear the case and declare Assange guilty last week, in a fashion which makes the dictators' courts I had witnessed, in Ibrahim Babangida's Nigeria or Isam Karimov's Uzbekistan, look fair and reasonable, in comparison to the gross charade of justice conducted by Michael Snow.
Julian Assange said nothing during the whole brief proceedings, other than to say "Not guilty" twice, and to ask a one-sentence question about why the charges were changed midway through this sham "Trial." Yet Judge Michael Snow condemned Assange as "Narcissistic."
To support the persecution of Assange in these circumstances is to support absolute state censorship of the internet.
Assange was nowhere near the USA when he published the documents, but nonetheless U.S. courts are willing to claim jurisdiction.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-16/assanges-judge-disgrace-bench-former-uk-ambassador-says
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