11/07/2023
⛔️ABSOLUTE MUST-READ
⭐️Cathy Vogen has been reporting on the case for 13 years and is the only person I know who has examined all 150 pages of Justice Swift's disgraceful refusal to hear Assange's FINAL appeal against extradition. Here Vogen exposes the abuse of the law by the UK courts while Australia's PM Albanese remains silent out of respect for the UK/US legal processes .
💥HERE IS WHY AUSTRALIA SHOULD/MUST PROTEST ASSANGE'S EXTRADITION💥CITING THE UK IS IGNORING IT'S OWN LAW
‼️Exposing crime, including state crime, is a protected political act
This was a major point made by Assange's lawyers in their appeal to the UK High Court but which Justice Swift rejected in just another travesty of justice in a long list of corrupt judicial rulings.
⛔️HERE'S HOW THE US MISLED THE UK COURTS
‼️They distorted their own evidence, says Vogen, and finally they led the court to believe that only WikiLeaks had published the unredacted cables, and
⛔️they omitted all of the information about Cryptome, the Pirate Bay and hundreds of other websites that this information was published on first.
⛔️This is crucial, absolutely crucial, because it points to a difference between the Official Secrets Act and the Espionage Act.
". . . in the Official Secrets Act, , ,
⛔️if information has been made public already and is available worldwide, as it was on hundreds of websites,
⛔️it is not an offense to republish it.
⛔️And this comes from that famous Spycatcher case, right? Which one of our prime ministers, MALCOLM TURNBULL, he was the barrister who defended that.
(https://consortiumnews.com/2023/07/06/watch-assange-appeal-the-us-uk-deception/?fbclid=IwAR2Av6Kq5hoxm0IC33PS4c1TQ9IrMXgsi04JqSCJDdIbB8qVww3brp-bFwU)
The 'Perfected Grounds of Appeal' submitted by Julian Assange's lawyers to the High Court of England and Wales reveals new evidence of deception by both Britain and the United States. (With transcript). Emmy Butlin from the Julian Assange Defence Committee discusses the revelations with Cathy Vog