Comics, 9-24-20: Abuse of Julian Assange

The extradition of Journalist Julian Assange from UK to USA would undermine freedom of speech
9-24-20, Guardian --  Journalist Julian Assange founded Wikileaks in 2006; he's currently being held at the HM Prison Belmarsh in the United Kingdom charged with espionage. In April 2019 Julian Assange independently stated that Russia was not the source of the DNC publication. Reportedly, in Feb 2020 Pres Trump has offered him a pardon if he agreed to again say that Russia was not involved in hacking emails from Democrats during the 2016 presidential election. [The White House has denied this report.]

Assange released Hillary’s emails revealing:
• The Clinton Foundation received millions of dollars from Saudi Arabia and Qatar
• Hillary Clinton was paid $675,000 for speaking at Goldman Sachs.
• Hillary was the primary architect of the war in Libya. As Sec of State, Hillary believed overthrowing of Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi would establish her credentials as the future president.  Instead, the war she sought has left Libya in chaos and has resulted Gadhafi’s murder and 40,000 dead.
And how do the Democrats respond to these facts? By calling anyone who believes they are true to be “a conspiracy theorist.”

This is the first time in the history of the US that a journalist has been indicted under the Espionage Act for publishing truthful information. The world knows, however, that Assange never spied on the US. What he did was publish documents he received from convicted US Army Intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning, who was sentenced to 35 years in prison; but in 2017 he/she was released by Pres Obama.
The risks that Assange will be extradited are real. Assange provided important news to the cause of liberty & shouldn't be punished for doing so. He  is a champion of democracy and should be released immediately.

Trump Denies He Offered Julian Assange a ‘Win-Win’ Deal
9-18-20, Bloomberg -- Australian-born Julian Assange, 49, is fighting to avoid being sent to the United States, where he is charged with conspiring to hack government computers and violating an espionage law over the release of confidential cables by WikiLeaks in 2010-2011. His lawyer, Jennifer Robinson, said in a witness statement to the court that in 2017 she observed a meeting at the Ecuadorian embassy in London between Assange and Republican then-US Representative Dana Rohrabacher who offered to arrange a pardon for Assange in return for information about the hacking of Democrat emails before the 2016 US presidential election. White House denied a pardon had ever been offered to Assange and called the claims “a complete fabrication and a total lie.” 

On September 7, 2020, Julian Assange left his cell in London's Belmarsh Prison to attend a hearing. After a long period of isolation, he was finally able to meet his partner, sweetheart & lawyer Stella Moris and see their two sons— 3 yr old Gabriel & 1 yr old Max.

Julian Assange's lawyer Stella Morris Reports While at Ecuadorean Embassy She and Julian Had Secret Romance Resulting in Two Children
4-12-20, NYPost -- While holed up at the Ecuadorean embassy in London Julian Assange and lawyer Stella Morris secretly had two children.

​In 2015 the South African-born lawyer began a secret romantic relationship with Julian. The couple’s first son, Gabriel, was born in 2017 and Max in 2019. Both births were filmed and sent to Julian. The couple managed to keep their relationship and the births secret from the Ecuadorean staff and diplomats who had given Assange asylum refuge at the embassy for seven years. She and Julian hope to be married someday.

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Wikileaks is still online with last post of Julian's legal woes on October 2019 stating extradition was scheduled for Feb 2020 ... delayed.
More here Mrs Clinton's email archive here 

‘He Didn’t Exactly Grill’ Biden - pitched him softballs 
9-20-20, Fox News host Howard Kurtz criticized CNN anchor Anderson Cooper for asking softball questions of Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden during a town hall on the rival network last week. Kurtz said: “Anderson Cooper moderated a CNN town hall with Joe Biden, and let’s just say he didn’t exactly grill the former vice president. ​Anderson Cooper asked only a couple of skeptical questions by my count. He said to his guest, 'Democrat California Rep. Jane Harman. Given the way that President Trump is aggressively questioned in interviews, at press conferences, at the ABC town hall with George Stephanopoulos, doesn’t this reinforce the impression that the media kind of go easy on Joe Biden?”