UK & USA Abuse of Julian Assange

Travesty of Justice on Many Levels
​Treatment of Journalist, Julian Assange

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EDITORIAL: UK Don’t Railroad Julian Assange to Virginia USA!
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The charge against Julian Assange is very specific; conspiring with Chelsea Manning to publish the Iraq & Afghanistan war logs and cables. They've nothing to do with: Sweden, Sex, Or 2016 Presidential election

THIS IS GOVERNMENTAL ABUSE OF POWER! 
 
10-22-19, ConsortiumNews.com -- If this were a normal legal case, WikiLeaks’ lawyers would almost certainly be able to get the extradition request by the United States for their client journalist Julian Assange thrown out on the grounds that his privileged conversations with his lawyers at Ecuador’s London embassy were secretly videotaped.The  very nation that wants him extradited to stand trial in Virginia has obtained access to those videos. In a normal extradition case it would be hard to imagine Britain sending a suspect to a country whose government has already eavesdropped on that suspect’s defense preparations.

But this is not a normal legal case. 
On Monday 10-21-19, Julian Assange said as he appeared before a UK judge in magistrate’s court in London: “I don’t understand how this is equitable. This superpower [USA] had 10 years to prepare for this case and I can’t access my writings. It’s very difficult where I am to do anything but these people have unlimited resources…They are saying journalists and whistleblowers are enemies of the people. They have unfair advantages dealing with documents. They [know] the interior of my life with my psychologist” [the CIA presumably obtained videos of those conversations as well.  Assange was then packed off in a van back to his dreary cell at Belmarsh prison.]

The existence of Section E of the 1917 Espionage Act, which technically incriminates the unauthorized possession and dissemination of U.S. classified material by anyone, anywhere in the world, effectively criminalizes investigative journalism and is a travesty that must be challenged on First Amendment grounds. And now a defendant’s rights to a fair trial here in Virginia have been seriously undermined, indeed practically nullified, after Julian's conversations with his attorneys came into the possession of the government that wants to prosecute him. 

But this is not about justice. This is about revenge.
No case better illustrates how those powerful interests are protected by the legal system in punishing the man who did the most to expose their crimes to the public, a public rendered apathetic by an Establishment media that distracts them and presents Assange as an enemy of the people. If both US & UK governments care - in the very least - about maintaining an appearance of following the rule of law, it has this opportunity:

Let Julian Assange go.  

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Julian Assange was interviewed in 2010 where he explains that he is / was an Australian citizen. How he's been deemed persona non grata by his own nation and what journalistic work he and Wikileaks did causing him to be in hiding all these years. Here and here