I hope Julian is doing well.

He’ll never recover from what the Jews did to him, but hopefully he can relax a little bit with his family.

I’m glad he’s finally commenting on his situation. He looks good.

The Guardian:

Julian Assange has said he chose freedom “over unrealisable justice” as he described his plea deal with US authorities and urged European lawmakers to act to protect freedom of expression in a climate with “more impunity, more secrecy [and] more retaliation for telling the truth”.

In his first public statement since the plea deal in June ended his nearly 14 years of prison, embassy confinement and house arrest in the UK, the WikiLeaks founder argued that legal protections for whistleblowers and journalists “only existed on paper” or “were not effective in any remotely reasonable time”.

Well, I can confirm that.

If you start publishing things these people don’t want you to publish, they will simply destroy you. This is a plain fact, which no serious person can deny.

“I eventually chose freedom over unrealisable justice, after being detained for years and facing a 175-year sentence with no effective remedy,” he told lawmakers in Strasbourg at the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe (Pace), the human rights body with members ranging from Iceland to Azerbaijan.

“I am not free today because the system worked. I am free today after years of incarceration because I pled guilty to journalism,” he continued.

“The rights of journalists and publishers within the European space are seriously threatened,” he told Pace’s committee on legal affairs and human rights, urging the assembly to act. “The criminalisation of news-gathering activities is a threat to investigative journalism everywhere. I was formally convicted by a foreign power for asking for, receiving and publishing truthful information about that power while I was in Europe.”

Assange rose to prominence in 2010 after publishing a series of leaks from the former soldier Chelsea Manning showing that the US army in Iraq killed a dozen unarmed civilians, including two Reuters employees. No one has ever faced justice for the killings.

Well, people get killed in wars. Sort of sick of hearing that soldiers should be prosecuted for it, frankly.

It was George Bush, Tony Blair, and the Jews who should have been prosecuted for the Iraq war, not some soldier who lost his shit after being put in a retarded situation by these Jews.

He further angered the US government when a few months later he published a trove of 250,000 US diplomatic cables, some of which were published in the Guardian, causing a diplomatic crisis.

Julian Assange speaking in 2011: “The goal is to use Afghanistan to wash money out of the tax bases of the US and Europe through Afghanistan and back into the hands of a transnational security elite. The goal is an endless war, not a successful war” pic.twitter.com/vJanxwJPyy

— Sumit (@SumitHansd) October 1, 2024

Julian Assange has revealed that, under Mike Pompeo’s leadership, the CIA devised plans to kidnap and assassinate him while he was sheltered in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London.

The agency not only targeted Assange, but also his wife and infant son, whose DNA they sought to… pic.twitter.com/PozDPOog9V

— Shadow of Ezra (@ShadowofEzra) October 1, 2024

Assange told the committee on Tuesday that the landscape changed dramatically in February 2017 when Donald Trump appointed “two wolves in Maga hats” – Mike Pompeo as the CIA director and William Barr as the US attorney general.

While Barack Obama had commuted the sentence of Chelsea Manning, the Trump White House pursued a much more aggressive approach to WikiLeaks. In 2020 it was reported that senior CIA officials had considered abducting and assassinating Assange when he was in his fifth year in Ecuadorian embassy.

This is the basic reality: if you want to do anything meaningful that the US-Jewish state disagrees with, you have to do it from Russia, China, one of their satellites, or some third world country which lacks an advanced system of law and order. You must live your life outside of the reach of US authorities. Because they will come for you. No matter what. They do not allow dissent, and Assange thinking he was free from the US while in Europe is absurd.

I suppose that back then we were all a little bit more innocent, and didn’t really understand just how brutal the governments of the West are. But we know now. “Freedom” is an illusion that people believe in because they don’t ever test it.

Look at BLM and then the pro-Palestine protests, which involved a lot of the same people. During BLM, they said “wow, we have the freedom to riot in the name of our politics, neat,” then during peaceful protests against Israel, cops came and beat the shit out of them. They realized – or would have if they weren’t retarded – that when you talking about how niggers should be legally allowed to commit felonies, you’re masturbating in the corner of your cell, but when start talking about Israel, you’re rattling the bars of the cage and a guard is going to come by and crush your fingers.

Democracy is a brutal system of totalitarianism run by absolutely amoral criminals.

Do you know what happened in China when people protested the various coronavirus measures? The government quickly convened meetings and ended the coronavirus measures. In a so-called “autocracy,” the will of the people actually means something. In a democracy, they tell you to vote, and nothing ever happens.

This system is a joke and the people who believe in it are a generation of swine who are going to get what they deserve.

When I heard the news that the US was giving Julian a plea deal, I thought it must be some kind of trap.

But he’s in Australia now.

Evening Standard:

Julian Assange raised his fist to the air after touching down in Australia as a free man.

In emotional scenes in Canberra, Mr Assange embraced his family, including wife Stella, and waved to his supporters.

Supporters cheered as Mr Assange emerged from the plane. The 52-year-old waved at those watching on from the airport fence with shouts of “welcome home”.Among those greeting him was his father John Shipton, who hugged his son before he gave one final wave and entered a nearby building.

Stella Assange said in a news conference on Wednesday: “Today we celebrate Julian’s freedom.

“Julian needs time to recover, to get used to freedom.

“Someone told me yesterday…freedom comes slowly and I want Julian to have that space to rediscover freedom slowly, and quickly.”

She added that Mr Assange will aim to seek a pardon to the charge “when the time comes” and he “remains deeply principled and unafraid”.

Mr Assange’s lawyer Jennifer Robinson said that his release is a “huge win for free speech” and the WikiLeaks team is “absolutely thrilled” he is now home.

Ms Robinson said the first person to call Mr Assange when he touched down in Australia was Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

“Julian thanked him and then told the prime minister that he had saved his life,” Ms Robinson said in the conference.

She added: “It’s important that journalists understand a dangerous precedent has been set.

“This is a huge win for Australia and Australian democracy, and a huge win for free speech.”

Good for him.

I hope he can put together what is left of his life and find some meaning.

He’s a person who legitimately tried to do the right thing for the sake of doing the right thing.

This isn’t really justice.

Justice would be the people who locked him up for 15 years being punished for doing that to him.

You can read about justice in the Bible.

It involves guilty men being punished, not simply innocent men eventually being freed from captivity.

We don’t have a copy of the plea agreement. I would assume it says he can no longer do journalism.

I would trust the Australian state about as far as I could throw the continent of Australia.

It’s very good news.

Perhaps… a bit too good.

He’s got a plea deal with the US, so he’s… going to a US territory for the deal.

Evening Standard:

Julian Assange was granted bail by the High Court in London and released from Belmarsh Prison on Monday following negotiations with US authorities over a plea deal, WikiLeaks has said.

In a statement posted on X, the official WikiLeaks account said Assange left the maximum security prison on Monday morning “after having spent 1901 days there”.

JULIAN ASSANGE IS FREE

Julian Assange is free. He left Belmarsh maximum security prison on the morning of 24 June, after having spent 1901 days there. He was granted bail by the High Court in London and was released at Stansted airport during the afternoon, where he boarded a…

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) June 24, 2024

“Throughout the years of Julian’s imprisonment and persecution, an incredible movement has been formed. People from all walks of life from around the world who support not just Julian… but what Julian stands for: truth and justice.” – @Stella_Assange https://t.co/o6rEz3urdP

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) June 25, 2024

The statement continued: “He was granted bail by the High Court in London and was released at Stansted airport during the afternoon, where he boarded a plane and departed the UK.”

…

According to the Associated Press, court papers filed by the US Justice Department show Assange is scheduled to appear in federal court to plead guilty to an Espionage Act charge of conspiring to unlawfully obtain and disseminate classified national defence information.

It followed the publication of hundreds of thousands of leaked documents relating to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.

He is expected to return to his home country of Australia after his plea and sentencing, scheduled for Wednesday morning local time in the Mariana Islands, a US commonwealth in the Western Pacific.

I sure as hell wouldn’t be showing up on a US territory if I were him.

Assuming they are not escorting him in handcuffs, I’d consider myself another Brick in the Wall, and Run Like Hell.

I’d be on the first plane to Moscow.

It’s possible that they will do the deal for the Bradley Manning documents.

But remember: they never charged him over the Podesta email dump, which could just as easily be called a “national security threat.”

I’d be very concerned that as soon as I signed the plea deal for the Manning documents charges, I’d get handcuffed and told I was being charged for the Podesta dump.

Frankly, I wouldn’t have taken the deal unless they let me sign it somewhere outside of US jurisdiction.

Maybe they’ll let him go. Maybe Biden wants to brag about this. There is definitely overlap between the “Free Palestine” and “Free Assange” people. So it’s certainly possible.

They’re sending him to Australia, where he’ll be under constant surveillance by those people and banned from doing journalism. It’s probably part of the plea deal that he’s not going to do anymore journalism. Though after years of torture, I guess he’s probably ready to take any deal they put in front of him.

If he’s really out, I sure am happy for him.

But I’m not sure it’s time for the party just yet.

Stella Assange addressing the crowd following Monday’s UK court hearing granting an appeal for Julian Assange: “Now is the moment to drop this case…this case is shameful and it is taking an enormous toll on Julian” #FreeAssangeNOW pic.twitter.com/CzT62FIghs

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) May 20, 2024

It was obvious that the Biden people didn’t want this particular problem going on while they entered the election.

The UK doesn’t have an independent government and they just do whatever the Americans tell them to do. The Americans told them they didn’t want Assange yet.

The Guardian:

Julian Assange has been granted leave to mount a fresh appeal against his extradition to the US on charges of leaking military secrets and will be able to challenge assurances from American officials on how a trial there would be conducted.

Two judges had deferred a decision in March on whether Assange, who is trying to avoid being prosecuted in the US on espionage charges relating to the publication of thousands of classified and diplomatic documents, could take his case to another appeal hearing.

On that occasion, Dame Victoria Sharp and Mr Justice Johnson ruled he would be able to bring an appeal against extradition on three grounds, unless “satisfactory” assurances were given by the US.

The assurances requested were that he would be permitted to rely on the first amendment of the US constitution, which protects freedom of speech; that he would not be “prejudiced at trial” due to his nationality; and that the death penalty would not be imposed.

At a hearing at the high court in London on Monday, judges granted him leave to challenge his extradition on the grounds of whether any removal would be compatible with the right to freedom of expression under the European convention on human rights and on the grounds that he might be prejudiced at his trial or punished by reason of his nationality.

Assange’s team did not contest an assurance by the US that the death penalty would not be sought, accepting it was an “unambiguous executive promise”. But they argued that the situation was different in relation to any assurance that the Australian-born publisher could seek the same first amendment protections on free speech as a US citizen.

Edward Fitzgerald KC, representing Assange, said problems surrounding the assurances by the US were “multifold” and they did not rule out the possibility of a US court ruling that the WikiLeaks founder, as a foreigner, was not entitled to first amendment rights.

The assurance was not that Assange could “rely” on first amendment rights but “merely that he can seek to raise” them, Fitzgerald said.

Assange’s barrister also pointed to what he described as “the deafening silence” from US prosecutors including Gordon Kromberg, an assistant US attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia, where Assange would stand trial.

“Specific promises from prosecutors are pretty common. We will not object to bail. We will not seek the death penalty as in this case. No such specific assurance has been given here,” said Fitzgerald.

Despite the fact that this is obviously part of a political maneuver, it’s still good news that Julian has a bit more time to try to figure out some way out of this nightmare.

Anything is better than being tortured to death in an American gulag.

Julian Assange is dying for your right to know what your government is doing behind your back@YanisVaroufakis pic.twitter.com/EpiUzmHr4E

— Double Down News (@DoubleDownNews) May 20, 2024

BREAKING: Here are the US assurances provided to the UK re Julian Assange

—The first is a joke. It says Assange can TRY to ask for 1st amendment rights in court. But the US decides. So “no”.

—Death penalty assurance is also a joke. 175 years in prison is a death sentence. pic.twitter.com/nSrwt3nxtA

— Richard Medhurst (@richimedhurst) April 16, 2024

JUST IN: Protesters Demanding AG Garland To ‘Free Julian Assange’ Disrupt Congressional Hearing | via Forbes https://t.co/jvzY2nsobO pic.twitter.com/xglhk4RWgg

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) April 16, 2024

Do you believe that the Americans will treat a journalist they’ve likened to a terrorist fairly?

Do you think they won’t torture him and then sentence him to death for the crime of questioning the Big Anus regime?

Do you trust these people?

Does anyone? 

The Guardian:

The US has provided assurances to the high court in London in an attempt to prevent a last-ditch appeal by Julian Assange against extradition, but the WikiLeaks founder’s wife has dismissed them as “weasel words”.

Last month, two judges deferred a decision on whether Assange, who is trying to avoid being prosecuted in the US on espionage charges relating to the publication of thousands of classified and diplomatic documents, could take his case to an appeal hearing.

They granted him permission to appeal but only if the Biden administration was unable to provide the court with suitable assurances “that the applicant [Assange] is permitted to rely on the first amendment, that the applicant is not prejudiced at trial, including sentence, by reason of his nationality, that he is afforded the same first amendment [free speech] protections as a United States citizen, and that the death penalty is not imposed”.

On Tuesday, details emerged of the assurances given by the US, which stated that he “will not be prejudiced by reason of his nationality with respect to which defences he may seek to raise at trial and at sentencing”.

It referred specifically to him having “the ability to raise and seek to rely upon” the first amendment but also said that its applicability “is exclusively within the purview of the US courts”. The assurances also state: “A sentence of death will neither be sought nor imposed on Assange.”

If Assange is denied permission to appeal, he faces being extradited to the US within days as he will have exhausted all of his legal avenues in the UK courts. His only hope would then be if the European court of human rights intervened.

The UK doesn’t want to deal with this at all, and Joe Biden’s people don’t want to deal with it before the election. It seems logical that they would kick the can down the road until next year.

But lgoical things haven’t been happening very often lately, so it would be dumb to predict that something will happen because it is logical.

CIA Director William Burns has filed a State Secrets Privilege demand to withhold information in a lawsuit against the agency by four American journalists and attorneys who were spied on during their visits to Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. State secrets…

— Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) April 17, 2024

“Julian Assange is dying for your right to know what your government is doing behind your back”@YanisVaroufakis on Julian Assange:
pic.twitter.com/GRVFpjPHFF

— Double Down News (@DoubleDownNews) March 26, 2024

This is hardly a big win.

The UK just keeps trying to kick this can, while Julian continues to rot in prison.

Reuters:

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s extradition to the United States from Britain was put on hold on Tuesday after London’s High Court said the United States must provide assurances he would not face the death penalty.

U.S. prosecutors are seeking to put Assange, 52, on trial on 18 counts, all bar one under the Espionage Act, over WikiLeaks’ release of confidential U.S. military records and diplomatic cables.

After Britain gave the go-ahead for his extradition last year, Assange’s lawyers in February launched a final attempt in the English courts to challenge that decision.

In their written ruling, which Assange’s wife Stella described as “utterly bizarre”, two senior judges provisionally gave him permission to launch a full appeal against extradition on three grounds, but only if the U.S. failed to provide “satisfactory assurances” to the issues raised.

That is indeed utterly bizarre. I assume it’s unprecedented as well.

It’s clearly ridiculous to assert that the US would hold to any assurances they provide. The US lies about absolutely everything. It’s a criminal and terrorist nation.

These were that Australian-born Assange arguably would not be entitled to rely on the First Amendment right to free speech as a non-U.S. national and, while none of the existing charges carried the death penalty, he could later face a capital offence such as treason, meaning it would be unlawful to extradite him.

Assange’s lawyers had highlighted a comment by former U.S. President Donald Trump who said in 2010, when discussing WikiLeaks, that “I think there should be like a death penalty or something”, the ruling said.

The judges invited the U.S. authorities to provide assurances on these matters, saying if they were not forthcoming by April 16, then Assange would be granted permission to appeal.

However, they rejected his lawyers’ argument the case was politically motivated or that he would not receive a fair trial. They also said his accusation that CIA officials had planned to kidnap or murder him could not be considered should he be allowed an appeal.

A further hearing has been scheduled for May 20, with his extradition – which his campaign team said could have been imminent depending on the ruling – put on hold.

How can anyone claim this is not politically motivated?

What is the other possible motivation, other than politics?

Incredible clip – people are waking up to Legacy Media Lies & Corruption

Today UK Courts will decide if Julian Assange is to be extradited to the US where he faces 175 years in jail

His crime?

Telling the truth. pic.twitter.com/SoKWTszMQE

— Suppressed Voice. (@SuppressedNws) March 26, 2024

“The more they repress Assange, the less freedom of speech or freedom of expressions we have in the world”. And without these freedoms, “there’s no future for the artist” – Andrei Molodkin on the art piece Dead Man’s Switchhttps://t.co/L4CGJ4uRRX pic.twitter.com/BgaOfOOH84

— Stella Assange #FreeAssangeNOW (@Stella_Assange) February 13, 2024

Contemporary artist Andrei Molodkin plans to destroy 16 works of art collectively valued at more than £42.77m with acid if Julian Assange dies in prison.

More: https://t.co/Abr1toxxUG

📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube pic.twitter.com/JTeu6bsY9J

— Sky News (@SkyNews) February 13, 2024

Holding art hostage is a novel idea.

It’s reasonable enough.

Most of this art is garbage anyway. Picassos and Warhols should be destroyed on principle.

But the $45 million number is dramatic.

The Guardian:

He’s attracted global media attention and criticism after vowing to destroy some of the world’s most precious artwork if Julian Assange dies in prison.

But Andrei Molodkin, the Russian dissident artist, has said he does not believe the works by Picasso, Rembrandt, Andy Warhol and others, which he will lock away in a safe with a corrosive substance this Friday, will actually be destroyed.

Andrei Molodkin

“I’m not trying to destroy art, and I don’t believe I will have to,” Molodkin told the Guardian, adding that the project, called Dead Man’s Switch, was itself a collaborative artwork like any sculpture or portrait.

“It’s not activism. I believe that Assange will be free and all the collectors and artists who have donated their work did so because they believe he will not die in prison.”

Instead, the artist added, he is trying to spark a discussion over why “destroying the life of people means nothing but destroying art is a huge taboo in the world”.

Yeah, especially when it comes to destroying Picassos.

Why would people not want that trash destroyed?

Molodkin said he has gathered 16 works of art, which he estimates are collectively worth more than $45m. The works will be locked into a 29-tonne, 13ft by 9ft Swiss safe at Molodkin’s studio in the south of France. They will only be returned to their owners if Assange is released as a free man.

“When we have so much violence and war, like in Ukraine, Gaza, and everywhere, we need freedom of speech and freedom of expression for people to understand what’s happening,” the artist said.

“One of the most important examples is Julian Assange. He’s in prison just for the [material he published]. He changed the history of journalism and information. He changed the world. Personally for me, it was a world before him and a world after.”

The 57-year-old artist said he believes the longer Assange, who is being held in Belmarsh prison and is facing extradition to the US, stays in jail “and the more they repress him, the less freedom of speech or freedom of expressions we have in the world”. And without these freedoms, “there’s no future for the artist”.

As an artist, I can agree with this.

But I would add: there is no freedom for anyone. Without freedom of speech, democracy is the worst form of tyranny.

Our children will all be sex slaves to homosexuals if we do not reassert some kind of freedom.

Man cannot be oppressed to this extent indefinitely.

Elvis Dunderhoff contributed to this article. 

Because it is run by the Jews, the United States is a torture country.

RT:

The United Nations’ special rapporteur on torture has called upon authorities in the UK to block Julian Assange’s possible extradition to the United States to face espionage charges. Britain could be violating human rights laws by turning the WikiLeaks founder over to the US, due to his fragile mental state, UN expert Alice Jill Edwards warned on Tuesday.

Ahead of Assange’s final appeal against extradition this month, Edwards has warned that Assange’s “precarious mental health status” could mean that transferring him to US custody could endanger his health.

“Julian Assange suffers from long-standing and recurrent depressive order,” Edwards said in a statement published on the website of the UN’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Tuesday. “He is assessed as being at risk of committing suicide.”

Assange, now 52, came to international prominence in 2010 when he published a series of leaks from US Army intelligence operative Chelsea Manning in what was referred to as the largest disclosure of classified documents in history. He faces up to 175 years in prison if convicted of a string of espionage charges.

Edwards added that Assange is also at “risk of being placed in prolonged solitary confinement” and could receive a “potentially disproportionate sentence” in a US courtroom if extradition is approved.

She also urged London to ensure “full compliance with the absolute and non-derogable prohibition of refoulement to torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.”

A final decision on Assange’s possible extradition is expected to be made in London’s High Court on February 20 and 21. He faces a total of 18 criminal counts in the United States over his supposed role in leaking classified documents via the WikiLeaks platform, including some that exposed alleged war crimes.

No one can explain how the Assange leaks affected the American people. It is understood fully that they only affected the American state, which is a totally separate entity.

Further, it is factually confirmed that everything Assange did was normal, legal journalism, and the only reason he is being charged is that this journalism he did was particularly damaging to the US state. Moreover, he is accused of getting Donald Trump elected by leaking the emails of the sickening pervert John Podesta, who was found to be a ringleader in the Pizzagate conspiracy.

Assange should be freed and allowed to defect to Russia, where people have freedoms. The US has no jurisdiction over him.

“🎃 Former CIA officer Joshua Schulte sentenced to 40 years for leaking classified information to WikiLeaks. 🥷 Allegedly responsible for the Vault 7 release, which exposed CIA hacking capabilities, including spying via phones, browsers, cars, and TVs. #Vault7 #WikiLeaks” pic.twitter.com/PgWKQTQgYW

— SilencedSirs◼️ (@SilentlySirs) February 2, 2024

So the guy who did the leaks had child pornography?

Is this actually true? Pretty easy to set someone up for that after you grab their computers.

If it is true that he had the images on his computer, who was doing the abusing? If he’s a spy, doing an investigation into the CIA, it would make sense he would come across that imagery, no?

This whole case took place in the dark, so none of the obvious questions were ever asked, let alone answered.

The Guardian:

A former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) software engineer who was convicted for carrying out the largest theft of classified information in the agency’s history and of charges related to child abuse imagery was sentenced to 40 years in prison on Thursday.

The 40-year sentence by US district judge Jesse Furman was for “crimes of espionage, computer hacking, contempt of court, making false statements to the FBI, and child pornography”, federal prosecutors said in a statement. The judge did not impose a life sentence as sought by prosecutors.

Yeah, it’s pretty incredible to have that list of crimes of opposing the government and then have child porn tacked on.

Should that at least have been a totally different case, as it’s a totally different crime?

Joshua Schulte was convicted in July 2022 on four counts each of espionage and computer hacking and one count of lying to FBI agents, after giving classified materials to the whistleblowing agency WikiLeaks in the so-called Vault 7 leak. Last August, a judge mostly upheld the conviction.

Joshua Schulte

WikiLeaks in March 2017 began publishing the materials, which concerned how the CIA surveilled foreign governments, alleged extremists and others by compromising their electronics and computer networks.

…

Prosecutors also said Schulte received thousands of images and videos of child sexual abuse, and that they found the material in Schulte’s New York apartment, in an encrypted container beneath three layers of password protection, during the CIA leaks investigation.

He received them from who? And to what end? What was the context?

You might be thinking “well, just read the court documents.”

It’s not there. No one was charged with sending the images. No “child porn network” went down, as is generally the case in these cases.

They can put this sex stuff out against people, and everyone will distance themselves. They did it to Assange, remember? They said he “raped” a girl by taking a condom off during sex. Recently, they did it to Russell Brand. They always attach this sex stuff to people.

Maybe some of it’s true. “Child porn on a secret encrypted drive” sounds untrue to me, frankly, but even if some of the stuff is true, it’s always used as a tactic (maybe Julian took the condom off, who knows – that isn’t a serious allegation, because who doesn’t take the condom off? It’s only illegal in Sweden).

They always isolate people and make them indefensible, always through sexual allegations.

I don’t think there is proof Putin killed any journalists at all.

But even if he did, he didn’t kidnap and torture them for years on end, until they went insane and deranged, and then just keep torturing them, with the threat of being tortured to death in a gulag.

RT:

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has confirmed that Australia has raised the case of Julian Assange’s continued prosecution, but declared that Washington will not cease seeking the extradition of the former WikiLeaks boss and intends to try him for espionage.

Speaking alongside Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong in Brisbane on Saturday, Blinken said that while he understands “the concerns and views of Australians,” Assange’s alleged actions “risked very serious harm to our national security, to the benefit of our adversaries, and put named human sources at grave risk – grave risk – of physical harm, and grave risk of detention.”

Assange, he said, was “charged with very serious criminal conduct” and had allegedly taken part in “one of the largest compromises of classified information in the history of our country.”

An Australian citizen, Julian Assange is currently being held in London’s Belmarsh Prison. He is fighting extradition to the US, where he faces 17 charges under the Espionage Act and potentially a 175-year prison sentence. Human-rights and press-freedom activists have demanded his release, citing his deteriorating mental and physical health, while Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said in May that he was “working through diplomatic channels” to press the US into dropping the case.

It’s sometimes hard to remind yourself that the Americans are the good guys, since they are so into lawlessness, torture, and murder, and their absolute belief that there is no such thing as freedom of press, freedom of speech, or freedom of religion, and that all must bow to their whims.

But we have to remember: they are purely good because they support gay anal sex with little kids.