Utopia Talk / Politics / Thank you Seb & Brits

Average Ameriacn Member	Sat Oct 26 08:30:43 You are still our allies! http://www...ives/2019/10/assange-in-court/ Before I get on to the blatant lack of fair process, the first thing I must note was Julian’s condition. I was badly shocked by just how much weight my friend has lost, by the speed his hair has receded and by the appearance of premature and vastly accelerated ageing. He has a pronounced limp I have never seen before. Since his arrest he has lost over 15 kg in weight. But his physical appearance was not as shocking as his mental deterioration. When asked to give his name and date of birth, he struggled visibly over several seconds to recall both. I will come to the important content of his statement at the end of proceedings in due course, but his difficulty in making it was very evident; it was a real struggle for him to articulate the words and focus his train of thought. Until yesterday I had always been quietly sceptical of those who claimed that Julian’s treatment amounted to torture – even of Nils Melzer, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture – and sceptical of those who suggested he may be subject to debilitating drug treatments. But having attended the trials in Uzbekistan of several victims of extreme torture, and having worked with survivors from Sierra Leone and elsewhere, I can tell you that yesterday changed my mind entirely and Julian exhibited exactly the symptoms of a torture victim brought blinking into the light, particularly in terms of disorientation, confusion, and the real struggle to assert free will through the fog of learned helplessness. I had been even more sceptical of those who claimed, as a senior member of his legal team did to me on Sunday night, that they were worried that Julian might not live to the end of the extradition process. I now find myself not only believing it, but haunted by the thought. Everybody in that court yesterday saw that one of the greatest journalists and most important dissidents of our times is being tortured to death by the state, before our eyes. To see my friend, the most articulate man, the fastest thinker, I have ever known, reduced to that shambling and incoherent wreck, was unbearable. Yet the agents of the state, particularly the callous magistrate Vanessa Baraitser, were not just prepared but eager to be a part of this bloodsport. She actually told him that if he were incapable of following proceedings, then his lawyers could explain what had happened to him later. The question of why a man who, by the very charges against him, was acknowledged to be highly intelligent and competent, had been reduced by the state to somebody incapable of following court proceedings, gave her not a millisecond of concern.
Paramount Member	Sat Oct 26 09:05:26 He shouldn’t have fucked that Swedish female thing. The brits or the cia would probably have nabbed him later anyways, but maybe he could have avoided being trapped at an embassy all those years if he hadn’t fucked that woman who was most likely a cia agent. They wanted an arrest warrant on him, so what do they do? They send a woman to him who spreads her legs, and then the next day she accuses him of rape. The oldest trick in the world.
Rugian Member	Sat Oct 26 16:47:20 Paramount That's very un-MeTooish of you.
Allahuakbar Member	Sun Oct 27 07:46:32 Thank you Seb & Brits, lock him up! http://www...y-of-terror-offence-in-retrial UK man who fought Isis found guilty of terror offence in retrial Aidan James, 28, is first Briton to stand trial for travelling to Syria to join battle against Isis
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