On Sunday, Julian Assange’s father said that his son should be extradited back to his home country — Australia. John Shipton also said that he was shocked to see Assange’s condition after his arrest in London and called on the prime minister to help out.
Earlier, UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said that the country’s government should not extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the US for exposing evidence of atrocities in Iraq and Afghanistan. On Thursday, Assange pleaded not guilty before the UK’s Westminster Magistrates Court.
Julian Assange was arrested by UK’s Metropolitan police after Ecuador terminated his asylum.
Sputnik discussed the case of Julian Assange with David Icke, a political commentator and media personality.
And what we’ve seen is, we see all the time, is the coordination between apparently independent countries — what a joke that is — in this case the United States and Britain, to bring about a long-planned end. It’s an extraordinarily symbolic moment, because it is the confirmation that we live in a tyranny. You know when you live in tyrannies when those who do the crimes get off scot-free and those that reveal the crimes get prosecuted.
We’re seeing this again, again and again, and this is, of course, globally very high profile case which is confirming that; they want to make an example of him, because they want to say to anyone else thinking of exposing the way the WikiLeaks has, «this is what happens to you if you take us on». So it’s not just about Assange, it’s about a warning to anyone, who would take on the establishment, which, of course, we must do if we want freedom to survive.
The reaction of the media in America, particularly, has been utterly disgusting to this arrest. I mean, talk about turkeys voting for Christmas. They are supporting something and saying «it’s okay as long as it don’t affect us»; well actually this is the step-by-step, tick-tick-tick, what I call the totalitarian tip-toe, to the erosion of all media freedom, including theirs.
