@snoopydawg

i'll add a few more excerpts from assange defense's overview of baraitser's ruling, but first, as to this one:

The U.K. Extradition Act should take precedence over the U.S.-U.K. Extradition Treaty, and the former removed the clause barring extradition for political offenses

in their live tweets, she'd actually noted that the US/UK extradition treaty hadn't been enshrined into british law, so she had to go by the 2003 version had precedence. how does it get 'enshrined' into law save by a judge like yourelf?

anyhoo:

•Defense arguments about Assange’s political opinions were “extraneous”

•There was insufficient evidence that the charges were “pressurized” by the Trump Administration and instead showed healthy internal debate

•Though the intelligence community has harshly criticized WikiLeaks, it doesn’t speak for the administration

•It isn’t the UK court’s place to comment on the case of UC Global spying on Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy, as it doesn’t have access to court documents in the case against UC Global in Spain

•Assange’s prospective jury pool in the Eastern District of Virginia would come from a large county, can’t prove it would only be ex-national security and ex-military officials

•Challenges of the U.S. prosecution’s “overbroadness” and “vagueness” should be made in a U.S. court, not adjudicated here, no reason to think Assange wouldn’t have constitutional rights when tried in the U.S. — “This court trusts that a US court will properly consider Mr Assange’s constitutional right to free speech”

as to the UCGlobal spying, from their live tweeting, this:

@DefenseAssange 12h

Judge seems to be potentially justifying spying on Assange because CNN reported that Assange had turned the embassy into a ‘command post’ for election meddling

re: (comprador) AMLO'S offer of political asylum, telesur english has it this way (h/t mr. wd)

The Latin American country is willing to protect the WikiLeaks founder as long as he does not interfere in the political affairs of any nation.

Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) Monday offered political asylum to Australian journalist Julian Assange after Britain's Crime Court refused to extradite him to the U.S.

"Our Foreign Affairs Ministry will ask the U.K. government to release Assange so that Mexico can offer him political asylum," AMLO said.

"The court's verdict is a triumph of justice. Assange is a journalist who complied with his duty," he stressed.

no, AMLO: it is s not a triumph of justice it still allows political persecution of other media organizations that publish leaks. given that she'd rejected every other defense argument, but 'because suicide' ruled, it's ass-covering.

you also may recall that he was in league w/ trump's deporatation schemes. the zapatistas don't trust the liar one iota, nor do i.

Judge blocks the extradition of Julian Assange to the United States, ruling the abusive U.S. prison system could not protect him from suicide

In a ruling in which she accepted nearly every argument from U.S. government, Judge Vanessa Baraitser agreed with the defense’s claims that the U.S. prison conditions Assange would face if he were extradited, including solitary confinement, Special Administrative Measures, and extreme restrictions at ADX Florence, would drive Assange to suicide. She ruled it would therefore be unjust to extradite Assange to the U.S. and ordered his release.

The U.S. will appeal the decision.

Judge Baraitser summarized her lengthy opinion and the arguments at issue, siding with the prosecution at virtually every step, upholding dangerous arguments that would undermine the First Amendment protections of a free press. The judge ruled:

The U.K. Extradition Act should take precedence over the U.S.-U.K. Extradition Treaty, and the former removed the clause barring extradition for political offenses

You HAVE to read the rest of her ruling to see how much the power elite despises the Effing Rule of LAW!!

https://assangedefense.org/hearing-coverage/julian-assange-extradition-h...

ETA this LIE:

The release of unredacted cables was “indiscriminate”

A few weeks ago a recording of Assange's call to the State Department that showed her warned them that they were coming. ANd not one person was harmed from the leaks that were NOT Wikileaks' fault.

@snoopydawg

JUST IN - Mexico's President Obrador prepares a plan to grant Assange political asylum. UK court ruled earlier in the day to block WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's extradition to the US

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