Posts
It
is a sign of how things have changed that this article could be
written by a senior advisor to the Reagan administration.
This
is as much about a small South American country standing up to Empire
Ecuador
President Rafael “We Are Not A Colony” Correa Stands Up To The
Jackbooted British Gestapo
Paul
Craig Roberts
Paul Craig Roberts
16 August, 2012
A
coward dies many deaths; a brave man dies but once.
The
once proud British government, now reduced to Washington’s servile
whore, put on its Gestapo Jackboots and declared that if the
Ecuadorean Embassy in London did not hand over WikiLeaks’ Julian
Assange, British storm troopers would invade the embassy with
military force and drag Assange out. Ecuador stood its ground. “We
want to be very clear, we are not a British colony,” declared
Ecuador’s Foreign Minister. Far from being intimidated the
President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, replied to the threat by
granting Assange political asylum.
The
once law-abiding British government had no shame in announcing that
it would violate the Vienna Convention and assault the Ecuadorean
Embassy, just as the Islamic students in the 1979 Khomeini Revolution
in Iran took over the US Embassy and held the diplomatic staff
captive. Pushed by their Washington overlords, the Brits have
resorted to the tactics of a pariah state. Maybe we should be worried
about British nuclear weapons.
Let’s
be clear, Assange is not a fugitive from justice. He has not been
charged with any crime in any country. He has not raped any women.
There are no indictments pending in any court, and as no charges have
been brought against him, there is no validity to the Swedish
extradition request. It is not normal for people to be extradited for
questioning, especially when, as in Assange’s case, he expressed
his complete cooperation with being questioned a second time by
Swedish officials in London.
What
is this all about? First, according to news reports, Assange was
picked up by two celebrity-hunting Swedish women who took him home to
their beds. Later for reasons unknown, one complained that he had not
used a condom, and the other complained that she had offered one
helping, but he had taken two. A Swedish prosecutor looked into the
case, found that there was nothing to it, and dismissed the case.
Assange
left for England. Then another Swedish prosecutor, a woman, claiming
what authority I do not know, reopened the case and issued an
extradition order for Assange. This is such an unusual procedure that
it worked its way through the entire British court system to the
Supreme Court and then back to the Supreme Court on appeal. In the
end British “justice” did what the Washington overlord ordered
and came down on the side of the strange extradition request.
Assange,
realizing that the Swedish government was going to turn him over to
Washington to be held in indefinite detention, tortured, and framed
as a spy, sought protection from the Ecuadorean Embassy in London. As
corrupt as the British are, the UK government was unwilling to
release Assange directly to Washington. By turning him over to
Sweden, the British could feel that their hands were clean.
Sweden,
formerly an honorable country like Canada once was where American war
resisters could seek asylum, has been suborned and brought under
Washington’s thumb. Recently, Swedish diplomats were expelled from
Belarus where they seem to have been involved in helping Washington
orchestrate a “color revolution” as Washington keeps attempting
to extend its bases and puppet states deeper into traditional Russia.
The
entire world, including Washington’s servile puppet states,
understands that once Assange is in Swedish hands, Washington will
deliver an extradition order, with which Sweden, unlike the British,
would comply. Regardless, Ecuador understands this. The Foreign
Minister Ricardo Patino announced that Ecuador granted Assange asylum
because “there are indications to presume that there could be
political persecution.” In the US, Patino acknowledged, Assange
would not get a fair trial and could face the death penalty in a
trumped up case.
The
US Puppet State of Great (sic) Britain announced that Assange would
not be permitted to leave Britain. So much for the British
government’s defense of law and human rights. If the British do not
invade the Ecuadorean Embassy and drag Assange out dead or in chains,
the British position is that Assange will live out his life inside
the London Embassy of Ecuador. According to the New York Times,
Assange’s asylum leaves him “with protection from arrest only on
Ecuadorean territory (which includes the embassy). To leave the
embassy for Ecuador, he would need cooperation that Britain has said
it will not offer.” When it comes to Washington’s money or
behaving honorably in accordance with international law, the British
government comes down on the side of money.
The
Anglo-American world, which pretends to be the moral face of humanity
has now revealed for all to see that under the mask is the face of
the Gestapo.
The
West Has Just Become A Giant Banana Republic
Simon
Black of Sovereign Man
16
August, 2012
Wikileaks
founder Julian Assange has made an admirable habit of enraging
western governments over the last few years, particularly the United
States.
Most
notably, his release of classified diplomatic documents in 2010
proved ruthlessly embarrassing, shining a spotlight on the absurd,
petty little world of international relations.
Ever
since, the US government has done everything it can to stop him.
Short of assassination. They shut down his website, but mirror sites
instantly popped up. They sought legal action, but their efforts have
been impeded by the bureaucratic deftness of his attorneys. They
froze his bank accounts… but donations have poured in from all over
the world.
Along
the way, Uncle Sam co-opted a number of allied nations to set aside
their principles for the sake of US interests–Switzerland rolled
over immediately and shuttered Assange’s bank accounts.
Australia
(his home country) has remained conspicuously silent on the matter,
raising not a single word of protest in his defense. One high ranking
Aussie politician even publicly suggested that Assange should be
killed.
Sweden
has happily played along, trumping up dubious allegations about
Assange and issuing an international arrest warrant.
And
now there’s the UK, where Assange has been based. The British
government located and arrested him, yet after his legal team was
able to secure bail and delay extradition, Assange sought refuge at
the Ecuadoran embassy in London. He’s been living there for two
months in violation of his bail.
Assange
knows that, if extradited to Sweden, he’ll be shipped off to face
the death penalty in the US… so the stakes are clearly high. He
even petitioned Ecuador’s president Rafael Correa for political
asylum, and just hours ago, Correa agreed.
Swarms
of British police have now descended on the Ecuadoran embassy in
London. This, on the heels of the British Foreign Ministry issuing a
warning letter to Ecuador’s government threatening to “take
actions in order to arrest Mr. Assange in the current premises of the
[Ecuadoran] embassy.”
Such
a move would be appalling, to say the least.
Embassies
are hallowed sovereign ground, not to be trespassed. Ever. This is
the most sacrosanct, fundamental, inviolable principle of
international relations, explicitly codified in both the Vienna
Convention on Diplomatic Relations (1961) and the Vienna Convention
on Consular Relations (1963).
Article
27 of the latter, for example, states that “the receiving State
[the UK in this case] shall, even in case of armed conflict, respect
and protect the consular premises, together with the property of the
consular post and the consular archives.”
International
law seems pretty obvious here. Yet British police stand ready to
storm the embassy, arrest Assange, and tear down decades of
diplomatic precedent.
In
a way this is almost poetic. Assange is the man who exposed western
diplomacy for the fraud that it is. That he would be sent to his
death by an egregious violation of its most fundamental principle
seems strangely appropriate.
Regardless,
the whole affair is perhaps the foulest example that western
governments will ignore their own laws, or selectively apply them,
whenever they see fit.
Legal
precedent means nothing. Rule of law means nothing. Free speech means
nothing. Their own treaties mean nothing. It’s unbelievable. Anyone
in the west who honestly thinks he’s still living in a free society
is either a fool or completely out of touch.
If
that seems too radical an idea, consider that ECUADOR is now the only
nation which stands to defend freedom and human rights against an
assault from the United States, the United Kingdom, and their
spineless allies.
The
west has just become a giant banana republic. Have you hit your
breaking point yet? If not now… when?
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: only a member of this blog may post a comment.