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John Shipton: "Julian Assange can be freed with a phone call." Speech outside Prime Minister Albanese's Office, 09-12-2023 (odysee.com)
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John Shipton speaks outside Anthony Albanese's office on Saturday 9th December.

"Julian Assange can be freed with a phone call."

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[–] SLfgb@feddit.nl 4 points 2 years ago

"Julian Assange can be freed with a phone call. The government can ring up their colleagues in the United Kingdom and say, you know:

'send him home, his visa's expired and serve the expiration date notice on him. Anything that the United States wants we can handle here'.

That is a clear possibility."

"The 13 years we witnessed acquiescence to whatever the United States and the United Kingdom wanted to do to Julian."

"All of the people of Australia have bound together and brought into being a meme that spread into government, into parliament, into the congress, that Julian must be returned home. So it's our congratulations that Anthony Albanese says in Parliament: 'I see no benefit in this persecution continuing.' Well he doesn't say persecution. I'll help him out there."

[–] antidote101@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He would have had a lot more chance if he didn't help in US election meddling.

...if you're going to try to run your own private intelligence agency, you'd better be pretty smart about it.

[–] SLfgb@feddit.nl 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Antidote101, you sound like former CIA head and Trump's state secretary Mike Pompeo, who in 2017 redefined WikiLeaks as a 'non-state hostile intelligence service, often abetted by state actors like Russia', before he got the CIA to draw up secret plans to have him kidnapped or killed.

The Biden administration is continuing Trump's war on journalism with this persecution.

[–] antidote101@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Wikileaks isn't a journalistic publication. They're a private intelligence agency... And when you work in that arena you have to understand the limits and players very well...

...and yes, intelligence agencies plan and conduct kidnappings and all sorts of resolution to problems. In the west, they do so with the parameters of defined laws and norms. Elsewhere people aren't so protected.

P.S If Assange wanted to work in the media, or even create his own media company... He really should have, and could have. But that's not the industry he chose. He chose to work in intelligence.

[–] SLfgb@feddit.nl -1 points 2 years ago

Now you sound even more like bigshot Mike. Are you him perchance? Was it your intention for the indictment to be littered with the words 'publish', 'published', 'publishing', 'public', 'publicly', 'publication'; 'disseminate', 'dissemination', 'redactions', 'redacting', 'redacted'?