Who is behind the judge prosecuting Assange?

                                     Who is behind the judge prosecuting Assange?

x Manlio Dinucci: Holds the title of "Lady" for being the wife of Lord James Arbuthnot, known "hawk" of the Conservative Party and former Minister of Defense

Emma Arbuthnot is the main judge who instructs, in London, the extradition process of Julian Assange to the United States, where he could be sentenced to 175 years in prison for "espionage", that is, for having published, as an investigative journalist, evidence of the American war crimes, such as the well-known videos about the massacres perpetrated against civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan. During this process, in the hands of Judge Vanessa Baraitser, all the defense requests have been rejected.

In 2018, after Sweden dropped the sexual violence charge, Judge Arbuthnot refused to overturn the arrest warrant, thus preventing Assange from obtaining asylum in Ecuador. This same judge rejected the conclusions of the UN Working Group on Assange's arbitrary detention. Nor did she want to hear the conclusions of the UN head of torture, who pointed out that "Assange, detained in extreme conditions of unjustified isolation, presents typical symptoms of prolonged exposure to psychological torture."

In 2020, while thousands of detainees were placed under house arrest, as a measure against the coronavirus, Assange has been kept in prison and has been exposed to contagion in conditions of physical weakness. In court, Assange is unable to consult his lawyers, he is kept in isolation in an armored glass cage and threatened with expulsion if he dares open his mouth. What is behind so much cruelty?

Judge Arbuthnot holds the title of "Lady" for being the wife of Lord James Arbuthnot, a well-known "hawk" of the Conservative Party and former Defense Minister, notoriously linked to the military-industrial complex and the British secret services. Lord Arbuthnot is also chairman of the British consulting committee of the Thales Group - a French transnational specialized in aerospace military systems - and a member of the consulting committee of the firm Montrose Associates, which specializes in strategic intelligence, two generously paid positions. Lord Arbuthnot is also a member of the Henry Jackson Society (HJS), an influential transatlantic think tank linked to the US government and intelligence.

Last July, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo participated in a panel discussion organized in London by the Henry Jackson Society. Since his time as CIA director, Pompeo has accused WikiLeaks - the website founded by Assange - of being "an enemy spy service." This Pompeo campaign coincides with that of the Henry Jackson Society, which accuses Assange of "casting doubt on the moral position of Western democratic governments, supported by autocratic regimes."

Until recently, Priti Patel, the current UK Home Secretary, was on the political council of the Henry Jackson Society, together with Lord Arbuthnot, precisely the person who will or will not have to sign the extradition order against Julian Assange. That pressure group, which has been campaigning for Assange's extradition - under the leadership of Lord Arbuthnot and other influential figures - is closely linked to Judge Arbuthnot, appointed by the queen as chief magistrate in September 2016, when WikiLeaks had already published -in March- the most compromising documents for the US.

Incidentally, among those documents are emails from then-US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, revealing the true objective of NATO's war against Libya: to prevent the government led by Muammar el-Kadhafi from using its gold reserves. to create a pan-African currency as an alternative to the US dollar and the CFA franc - the currency that France imposed on 14 former African colonies.

The real "crime" committed by Julian Assange is that of having opened a breach in the wall of political-media silence behind which the true interests of powerful elites are hidden that, from the protective shadow that the Deep State guarantees them, repeatedly resort to the letter of war.

That is the hidden power that accuses Assange and puts him on trial, as when so-called heretics were exposed to the whims and fury of the Holy Inquisition. If his extradition to the US is decided, Assange will be subjected to "special administrative measures" much harsher than those he already suffers in the UK. He will be locked up in a small cell under conditions of isolation, he will not be able to have contact with his family - not even through his lawyers, who would also be incriminated if they dared to deliver a message to him. In other words, handing him over to the US would be to sentence him to death.

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