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Tuesday, July 17, 2018
DiEM25 - High-level talks to evict Assange
17 Jul 2018 — The Times writes that Ecuador and the UK are in high-level talks to evict Assange. In times of dissent and with the most conservative Supreme Court of Justice ever, the expulsion of Julian Assange from the Ecuadorian Embassy and subsequent prosecution will reverse the rights of those who dare to challenge power and tell the truth, in the US and all over the World. His crime is to expose war crimes and government conspiracies against the rights of the many. Prosecuting Julian Assange will officially open an era of rapid regression of civil liberties and the rise of automated totalitarianism. There will be no place for western dissidents, no courage to resist. The defence of Assange is a critical issue for all supporters of democratic rights.
Today we demand that the US ends the prosecution of a journalist. We also demand that Ecuador respects its obligations with dignity, rather than illegally ignoring them and with that ignoring the word of a Head of State. Change.org Petition
I am surprised that Ecuador’s neoliberal president, Lenin Moreno, has not expelled Assange already. Moreno was quite progressive when he was vice-president under Raphael Correa. It was Correa who supported Moreno’s run for the presidency. But once Moreno took office (24 May 2017) he did an about-face and went radically neoliberal. Moreno ordered the police to imprison Correa for life, but Correa escaped to Belgium. (Moreno wants Interpol to arrest Correa.) Moreno invited the IMF and the US military back into Ecuador, and plunged the lower classes back into the grinding poverty that Correa had lifted them out of. Moreno also decriminalized the bankers. His own party expelled him for his betrayal.
And now, groveling to his elitist masters, Moreno wants to boot Assange out of the London embassy, perhaps to coincide with Moreno’s visit to London in two weeks. Moreno will go to the embassy and tell Assange to surrender to British police or be forcibly removed.
Four months ago Moreno cut Assange’s phone and Internet access, and barred him from receiving any visitors, or talking to people from the embassy balcony. Moreno hoped that the solitary confinement would make Assange surrender to British cops so that Assange could be sent to the USA for life imprisonment, or perhaps for execution. Evidently Moreno is losing patience.
I am surprised that Ecuador’s neoliberal president, Lenin Moreno, has not expelled Assange already. Moreno was quite progressive when he was vice-president under Raphael Correa. It was Correa who supported Moreno’s run for the presidency. But once Moreno took office (24 May 2017) he did an about-face and went radically neoliberal. Moreno ordered the police to imprison Correa for life, but Correa escaped to Belgium. (Moreno wants Interpol to arrest Correa.) Moreno invited the IMF and the US military back into Ecuador, and plunged the lower classes back into the grinding poverty that Correa had lifted them out of. Moreno also decriminalized the bankers. His own party expelled him for his betrayal.
ReplyDeleteAnd now, groveling to his elitist masters, Moreno wants to boot Assange out of the London embassy, perhaps to coincide with Moreno’s visit to London in two weeks. Moreno will go to the embassy and tell Assange to surrender to British police or be forcibly removed.
Four months ago Moreno cut Assange’s phone and Internet access, and barred him from receiving any visitors, or talking to people from the embassy balcony. Moreno hoped that the solitary confinement would make Assange surrender to British cops so that Assange could be sent to the USA for life imprisonment, or perhaps for execution. Evidently Moreno is losing patience.