Julian Assange released, creator of wikileaks
His arrest is an attack on independent journalism and democratic rights. Raw images that show when plainclothes officers from Scotland Yard to take dredges embassy of Ecuador in London journalist Julian Assange in order to extradite him to the US, They show us where the imperial democracy is willing to advance, to sweep away those who dare question his power, grounded in dark secrets and killings. In this case he had the collaboration of traitorous government of Lenin Moreno. Revolutionary socialists we add our voices to those demanding their immediate release.
It had been almost seven years since Assange had taken refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy to escape the "justice" Yankee, he does not forgive the WikiLeaks publishing thousands of secret government documents, product of their collaboration with the intelligence analyst in Iraq of US military, Chelsea Manning, who provided 700.000 reserved documents. Among them, videos showing the killings of US troops against civilians in the invasion of Iraq, the revelation of the atrocities carried out in that country and Afghanistan, and tremendous dark and secret diplomacy against the peoples unveiled in thousands of cables between the State Department and the Yankee embassies worldwide, who gave birth in WikiLeaks.
Manning paid dearly for his boldness to make known the secrets of the master atrocities North. He was first sentenced to prison 35 years, where he was tortured, as notes the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Agnes Callamard. Obama then pardoned. But last 8 March was again imprisoned for refusing to testify against Assange in front of the grand jury. Pay imprisonment defend their principles, what it has become a symbol among young Americans.
The appearance of Assange and WikiLeaks gave a boost to independent investigative journalism in the world. Cases like that of former CIA agent Edward Snowden, currently a refugee in Russia, which revealed how American Security Agency uses networks like Google to get into the private lives of people, or research on the Panama Papers, among other, Lunges are the impunity that the imperialist capitalist system can not withstand.
Why Trump, during the election campaign that brought him to the presidency, opportunistic-mind he flirted who had revealed military secrets, killings and other wrongs that Clinton had covered, Now the government is sponsoring the claim of "Justice", that following the mandates of the military industrial complex and the heart of Yankee establishment is demanding the extradition, trial and prison sentence handed down and journalist. Assange has the rare privilege of having both the Republican leadership as a Democrat against.
They want to muzzle independent journalism
The imperial campaign for an exemplary punishment spares no expense. Everything indicates that President Moreno negotiated the delivery of Assange on a recent visit of US Vice Mike Pence in exchange for an applicant to give a loan from IMF 4.000 millions of dollars. Assange's extradition to the US is almost a certain death penalty if the world fails to snatch mobilization of imperialist claws. Callamard notes that Assange extradition to the US of threatening his life. In the same vein they have spoken, among others, Amnesty International and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
The attack against him is so brutal that in the field of diplomatic relations has few precedents. British police took him a territory that has immunity as is the Ecuadorian embassy, lock him into a high security prison accused of violating probation British, when it was requested by the Swedish justice for a cause of alleged rape and harassment. Swedish justice has suspended its complaint and now the Yankees are demanding his extradition.
British imperial democracy to try to disguise as much outrage saying it will not allow it to extradite him to a country with torture and death penalty, something totally cynical after the barbarities of Guantánamo. Labor to try to peel off some asked to be extradited to Sweden to answer for allegations of sexual offenses against him.
The offensive against civil liberties, this persecution against the creator of WikiLeaks represents, It has generated an important intellectual reaction, personalities and those who defend the most basic democratic rights, demanding his freedom. One by one they fall excuses and arguments imperial. Since the nonsense that Assange would have violated the code of coexistence by using a skateboard in his confinement in a small room with her cat, scatological other court. The truth is that the days were numbered Assange at the embassy, after the Ecuadorian government accused WikiLeaks to disclose data linking Lenin Moreno in Panama bank accounts and property abroad.
Yankee accusations intended to pass an investigative journalist serving as a Russian hacker, accusing him of violating secrets affecting national security. A "security" responsible for the "insecurity" of other peoples, on which the imperial democracy, download their terror, whether in the form of brutal adjustment plans and exploitation, or art pumps if necessary.
Despite the serious attack on press freedom, notes in the Washington Post or the New York Times justify extradition. CNN divide your comments among those who are against (the majority) and those who are in favor of Assange. If the charge of fructifies conspirator can be used against any investigative journalist to make known "non saints" state secrets, as it happened in American history with the famous Watergate or, more recently, with Obama in the 2013, when Fox News, James Rosen, He was accused of conspirator to encourage officials to reveal classified secrets.
Mobilizing demanding freedom
Stopping Assange, Whatever opinion we may have about their political positions and personal attitudes, It is an attack by the empire against the democratic rights of the people. It is necessary that the global campaign for his release, to which must be added the Manning and expert in digital privacy and open source, Ola Bini, recently arrested in Ecuador on charges of conspiracy, is made very strong and forces the masters of the empire and its accomplices lower back.
In this regard on Tuesday 16/04 thousands of Ecuadorians marched in Quito claiming against the agreement signed with the IMF and repudiating the removal of asylum to Julian Assange.
Gustavo Giménez
reproduced from Anticapitalist Network | 20.4.2019
