Not Pynchon but Assange

Sat Feb 1 12:46:12 UTC 2020

What has race got to do with it?

Am Sa., 1. Feb. 2020 um 12:59 Uhr schrieb Mark Thibodeau <
jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>:

> "It was a kind of a warning call, saying, 'Look what happened to this guy.
> It could happen to you.' It could happen to any one of us."
>
> Yeah. I'm sure EVERY BLACK AND BROWN PERSON reading this was just overcome
> with empathetic dread. How could this happen to a white man?
>
> And SUCH a white man! He's practically milk!
>
> Jerky
>
> PS - Screw Assange.
>
> On Sat, Feb 1, 2020 at 6:50 AM Kai Frederik Lorentzen <
> lorentzen at hotmail.de>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > Forgot to copy the crucial line:
> >
> > "It was a kind of a warning call, saying, 'Look what happened to this
> guy.
> > It could happen to you.' It could happen to any one of us."
> >
> > Am 01.02.20 um 12:43 schrieb Kai Frederik Lorentzen:
> >
> >
> > + Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard said she would drop<
> >
> https://www.newsweek.com/tulsi-gabbard-julian-assange-edward-swowden-pardon-dropped-charges-joe-rogan-1425802
> > ><
> >
> https://www.newsweek.com/tulsi-gabbard-julian-assange-edward-swowden-pardon-dropped-charges-joe-rogan-1425802
> >
> > all U.S. charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and pardon NSA
> > whistleblower Edward Snowden if elected president in 2020.
> >
> > During an appearance on the "Joe Rogan Experience" podcast on Monday, the
> > congresswoman from Hawaii called Assange's arrest and possible
> extradition<
> >
> https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/04/11/dark-moment-press-freedom-snowden-leads-global-chorus-condemning-assange-arrest
> > ><
> >
> https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/04/11/dark-moment-press-freedom-snowden-leads-global-chorus-condemning-assange-arrest
> >
> > to the United States a "great threat to our freedom of the press and to
> our
> > freedom of speech."
> >
> > "The fact that the Trump administration has chosen... to ignore how
> > important it is that we uphold our freedoms, freedom of the press and
> > freedom of speech, and go after [Assange], it has a very chilling effect
> on
> > both journalists and publishers," Gabbard said.
> >
> > "And you can look to those in traditional media and also those in new
> > media, and also every one of us as Americans," Gabbard added ... +
> >
> >
> >
> https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/05/15/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-would-pardon-snowden-and-drop-all-us-charges-against-assange
> >
> >
> > Am 31.01.20 um 15:58 schrieb rich:
> > Hard to disagree with the sentiments regarding press freedoms and
> > whistleblowers but I only wish Assange wasn't the poster boy
> >
> > rich
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 9:51 AM Thomas Eckhardt <
> > thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de<mailto:thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de><mailto:
> > thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de><mailto:thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>> wrote:
> > Here is the most complete account I have read. An interview with Nils
> > Melzer, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture and other Cruel,
> > Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and professor of
> international
> > law at the University of Glasgow.
> > Melzer provides many interesting details and I highly recommend reading
> the
> > whole thing. This might serve as his conclusion:
> > "What does it mean when UN member states refuse to provide information to
> > their own Special Rapporteur on Torture?
> > That it is a prearranged affair. A show trial is to be used to make an
> > example of Julian Assange. The point is to intimidate other journalists.
> > Intimidation, by the way, is one of the primary purposes for the use of
> > torture around the world. The message to all of us is: This is what will
> > happen to you if you emulate the Wikileaks model. It is a model that is
> so
> > dangerous because it is so simple: People who obtain sensitive
> information
> > from their governments or companies transfer that information to
> Wikileaks,
> > but the whistleblower remains  anonymous. The reaction shows how great
> the
> > threat is perceived to be: Four democratic countries joined forces – the
> > U.S., Ecuador, Sweden and the UK – to leverage their power to portray one
> > man as a monster so that he could later be burned at the stake without
> any
> > outcry. The case is a huge scandal and represents the failure of Western
> > rule of law.
> > If Julian Assange is convicted, it will be a death sentence for freedom
> of
> > the press."
> >
> >
> https://www.republik.ch/2020/01/31/nils-melzer-about-wikileaks-founder-julian-assange
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 29 Jan 2020 11:25:34 +0000
> >   Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de<mailto:
> lorentzen at hotmail.de
> > ><mailto:lorentzen at hotmail.de><mailto:lorentzen at hotmail.de>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > + 28 January 2020. The Parliamentary Assembly of the
> > Council of Europe (PACE) has called on member states to
> > oppose the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian
> > Assange to the United States and resolve that “he must be
> > promptly released.” Assange is fighting extradition to
> > the United States in an unprecedented Espionage Act
> > prosecution for journalistic activity. His extradition
> > hearing opens at Woolwich Crown Court in London on 24
> > February 2020 ... +
> >
> >
> >
> https://bridgesforfreedom.media/council-of-europes-parliamentary-assembly-calls-for-assanges-prompt-release/
> >
> >
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