Free Assange from Geopolitical Persecution!

On this topic, my words may seem harsh and a little less diplomatic than usual, but they are fair and just, and congruent with commensurate social justice and social accountability, on this more-than-pressing, urgent topic. Too much is at stake if this persecution trajectory is allowed to continue. Appalling behaviours towards a persecuted whistleblower need to be impeached and reprimanded in the strongest terms to guard against the ongoing injustice and persecution faced by Julian Assange. This is no time for weak and hollow platitudes, but rather strong words which canvas the dire reality of the predicament at hand, are essential. There is too much at stake to let this injustice persist and worsen.

Firstly, what should we label Assange as? How can we be accurate with labels?:

Journalist? Probably a fair call, but conceding it’s quite radical in technique. Spy? Definitely a bogus allegation. Activist whistleblower? Absolutely.

Assange, a renegade journalist, leaked war crime documents, footage, files and information in the public interest, exposing neo-imperial and neo-colonial atrocities conducted by the Western invading and occupying forces in Afghanistan and Iraq.

He now faces extradition to the U.S. where he confronts a ridiculous jail sentence of 175 years for espionage.

This is ludicrous and exposes just how illogical – Assange is not a spy – and unjust – the U.S. and global ‘criminal (in)justice system’ is – war criminals are not reprimanded, nor held accountable in any way. Yet, Assange’s non-violent acts of computer hacking with the intent of exposing atrocities to the (global) public, attract the threat of a ridiculously inflated prison sentence. This is so even after Assange having been subject to political persecution since leaking the horrifying and despicable information and acts showing that the U.S. led empire has immense blood on its hands.

He deserves full exoneration and repatriation to Australia – his country of citizenship.

Australian politicians need to do more than give platitudes to facilitate his repatriation and protection in Australia. The appalling, disgusting and despicable lack of support for Assange, or indeed indictment of Assange by U.S., U.K. and Australia’s political leader(s) (such as Gillard’s indictment, in Assange’s very own native country) is nothing less than a cowardly betrayal of justice, free speech, and the public interest. This is traitorous treachery by privileged political and judicial elites, who lack the backbone and rigorous moral fortitude that humanity so desperately requires. The just will not count them amongst their ranks: these ignoramus elites are rotten (to the very core)!!

If Assange is not a journalist, then he is definitely not a spy! His actions are more aligned with journalism than espionage! But the bully-boy U.S. led empire does not care for rigorous logic, only in restoring its juvenile status as a hypocritical arbiter in geopolitical relations, and (in)definitely attempting to set precedents that it is above the law for its criminal actions.