Assange and his villains

 
Assange and his villains

Little remains to be added to everything that has already been said, and was being said, of the Assange case. An operation absolutely in violation of international law as established by the UN Working Group against Arbitrary Detention, which, in an extensive resolution dated December 4, 2015, established that the arrest of the founder of Wikileaks was arbitrary and illegal and should be released. Not only that, in paragraph 100 required "the governments of Sweden and the United Kingdom ... ensure the situation of Mr. Assange to ensure their safety and physical integrity, facilitate the exercise of their right to freedom of movement as expeditious possible and to ensure the full enjoyment of the rights guaranteed by international standards relating to the detention of persons. "(link).{Assange and his villains}

In an international system in which the laboriously constructed legality is being run over more and more frequently since the end of the Second World War, what happened is not surprising at all. In this true tragedy for humanity - because that is what the persecution of Julian Assange means - there are a few villains.

First
Lenin Moreno, (a) "Judarrás", repugnant synthesis of Judas and Barabbas that deprived the Australian nationalized Ecuadorian diplomatic asylum granted seven years ago shortly after that, deprived of access to Internet and telephony, allegedly had been the one who took out the public light the murky negotiated of Moreno. The "Judarrás" is also doubly detestable because he did not even have the courage to expel him from the headquarters of the Ecuadorian embassy in London but he asked the Metropolitan Police to violate his diplomatic immunity, enter the precinct to forcefully arrest asylee Seldom has there been an example of such vileness and servility before the orders of the empire, eager to give an exemplary warning to Assange as an intimidating signal to the many who like him want to guarantee the right to information, an essential component of a democratic political order .

Second
The White House is the other villain, who since the time of the "progressive" Barack Obama did the impossible to get Assange was extradited to the United States. If this were to happen to the journalist he waits, in case that request is accepted, the submission to "very hard interrogation techniques" (euphemism to avoid saying torture), an endless succession of trials and accusations, prison and, probably, his murder in a well orchestrated "convict fight" in a prison populated by thugs, narcos and criminals of the worst kind. His eventual death in a prisoner fight would prevent the United States from accusing him of having sentenced to death a man who wanted the truth to be known.

Third
The unpresentable "representatives of the people" in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom and the congressmen of the United States. The first erupted in great demonstrations of jubilation when Prime Minister Theresa May reported the arrest of Assange. The same thing happened in the Senate and the House of Representatives of the US Congress, constituted in large part by politicians who were enriched in their legislative function protecting the lobbies and the companies that financed their political careers and condemning the majority of the population of His country is experiencing increasing economic hardships to the point that "the richest 1 percent of the US has higher incomes than 90% of the population". These characters are what made it possible for the middle wage earner in that country "you need to work more than a month to earn what a CEO earns in an hour." Well: this is the riff-raff that celebrated Assange's detention with joy. (See these and other information at: Nicholas Kristof: "An Idiot's Guide to Inequality", in the New York Times, July 22, 2014 and in William Marsden's note, "Obama's State of the Union speech will be call to arms on wealth gap ", at https://o.canada.com/news, 26 January 2014.)

Fourth and last
The European governments that consent not only this attack by Washington on the free flow of information and the essential transparency of public management, but admit, as unworthy vassals, that the White House wishes and the laws dictated by the Congress of that country they have extraterritorial validity and are applied in their own countries without trying the slightest bit of protest or resistance. In that sense, its shameful accompaniment of Washington's decisions: from the Assange case to the economic sanctions against Russia; or from the criminal campaign against Gaddafi in Libya to the brutal aggression against Syria; or from the blockade of Cuba to the payasesca operetta mounted around the figure of Juan Guaidó in Venezuela, they clearly say that the art of good government is something that seems to have been lost in a Europe that threw away all pretense of national sovereignty and dignity and resigned to fulfill the dishonorable role of buddy of whatever outrage want to perpetrate the emperor of the day.