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Craig Murray of Information Clearing House writes about his observation at Westminster Magistrates Court:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52433.htm
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.
Now tell me some fine arguments justifying the legality and justness of such person destruction methodics, I wish to hear them.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Tuesday October 29 2019, @03:06PM
I can't argue with this.
This is what my thesesytemsarefailing.net project is about.
Institutional forces have been literally plotting for decades to do away with the magna carta because their secrets are now too gruesome to risk any media organization ever being able to get them out.
To do this, they have had to infiltrate civilian society to a large extent. The wikileaks organization, I believe, became heavily infiltrated with police. Arjen Camphuis might have been an agent, his wikipedia article went offline, total mystery. Appelbaum to me appears, after quite a bit of reading, a fake as well.
If you wanted to make an organization that could be credible in the face of these forces, it would take a lot of money and an organization of people who had actual credibility and scruples, the exact opposite of assange, whose antics embarrassed a very important movement.
I am trying to publish the details of the police state bullshit that has been done against me, and report I am being stalked in germany, but there is no place in the world for me to go to talk to a journalist who cares. Totalitarians attack first those things they need to get out of the way, then they make their big move. Journalism, rights, outspoken counterculture figures are early things to go, then things start really moving.
It looks like that is what is headed our way, some kiind of big move for trump or a 9/11-ish thing because after epstein and weinstein, the narrative is spiraling out of their control.
And, of course, the word is out 9/11 was not done by islamic people, so history is literally splitting right before our eyes, and that is what leads to real war.
Remember the WWI debt payments anyone? How many people will have to die before every last person who does not believe the 19 hijackers and OBL did it are eradicated? How many books and websites will have to be burned?
Have they planned a final solution for those who refuse to believe the bald lies? If so, making sure we can be indefinitely detained based upon political beliefs is one of their most important goals, and here it is.