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Published: Apr 11, 2019
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Post Date: 2019-04-11 07:10:18 by A K A Stone
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Just found out that Julian Assange has been arrested in the embassy. Asylum withdrawn.

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#20. To: Liberator (#17)

But...but...what about the High Crimes committed in plain sight by Brennan, Clapper, the Feeb/CIA Deep State coup playahs -- not to mention Hitlery and Zero etal and *their* respective TREASON??

A point all too obvious. Some people want to be patriotic to the American gov when it comes to prosecuting Manning and Assange, but when it comes to these criminals, it's no longer a patriotic cause but a political one. Those who break the law to expose high crimes by the US gov those in it are given no quarter.

Case in point, Clapper was exposed as lying to Congress by Snowden's releases, and was never prosecuted for it. Not no much as a hearing.

Pinguinite  posted on  2019-04-11   13:00:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#21. To: Liberator, Stoner, *Arab Spring Jihad* (#12)

What that rhyme and reason is...could be any number of reasons, can't it?

Yes, I immediately began thinking about what sort of evil deeds this was a diversion for?

Bomb/invade Venezuela, Syria/Golan Heights, Iran, Africa, or a domestic false flag "terror" attack here in the USA?

President Trump has a YUUUGE staff of recycled bushbot neocons from both dubya and poppy Bush, thinking up evil plots.

It's some sort of coup ploy, to get him to hire America's worst aholes! That's what Lib tells us anyway.


Hondo68  posted on  2019-04-11   13:09:08 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#22. To: Pinguinite, Stoner, IbJensen, hondo68 (#20)

Some people want to be patriotic to the American gov when it comes to prosecuting Manning and Assange, but when it comes to these criminals, it's no longer a patriotic cause but a political one.

Those who break the law to expose high crimes by the US gov those in it are given no quarter.

Exactamundo. Spot on observations.

"Patriotism" or "safe-guarding US security" is not ANY case that can honestly be made against Assange. His is simply a Political Target and Prisoner. Because he is...a Whistle-Blower.

(btw, personally, I'm more inclined to consider the Assange and Snowden cases far more uniquely similar in the expressed category of true "WHISTLE-BLOWER" than Manning, who I'd categorize as a patsy.)

We are now compelled to ask:

If "law" is enacted behind closed doors in the bowels of DC dungeons that indemnifies the fox's presence and dining arrangements in the hen-house, does it make that law legitimate or righteous?

THAT is now the way our PTB have set up the game.

By criminalizing those Whistle Blowers who expose the harm and imminent plans to do harm to We The People, shouldn't they indeed be given quarter?

Moreover, any so-called "law" that ostensibly shields the "untouchables" and their clear criminality should be considered invalid; Such "shielding laws" are clear violations of the US Constitution, Bill of Rights, and oaths of respective Office.

We either serve Man or we serve the Truth. Can't do both.

Liberator  posted on  2019-04-11   14:36:49 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#23. To: Pinguinite (#20)

Case in point, Clapper was exposed as lying to Congress by Snowden's releases, and was never prosecuted for it.

Not no much as a hearing.

Beyond disturbing revelation and observation.

Why isn't there any hearing? (rhetorically speaking for just this single conceded High Crime)...Yet...these same people want to send a couple of Hollywood B-Listers up the river in a "Tuition-Bribery Scandal".

Btw -- What again WAS Assange's primary "crime"? What is the "Official" change? Wasn't Assange's primary "crime" in publicly exposing someone's else's hack of Hitlery, her cabal of DC psychopaths, and associative evil swamp creatures (along with their respective shocking & bizarre proclivities?)

The prosecutions of Snowden and especially now Assange are nothing but politically motivated lynchings and warnings to ALL potential Whistle Blowers who expose nasty, evil, corrupt govts and their insidious plans. This circus is an absolute disgrace. NOTHING they say can be trusted at face value.

Meanwhile, the US Constitution is shredded over and over. (As the Media applauds and neither Party demands REAL Justice and REAL enforcement of the USCON.)

What we DO know:

1) There remains "honor among thieves."

2) People by their own free will continue to cheer-lead and worship the elected reps/Molochs at the DC Blood Altar. AND...CALL IT "PATRIOTISM."

3) "Justice" is scoffed and snickered at by Statists.

Liberator  posted on  2019-04-11   14:49:44 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#24. To: Liberator, Texas Straight Talk (#22)

Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk 4/24/17: Trump's Betrayal of Wikileaks


Hondo68  posted on  2019-04-11   14:55:59 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#25. To: hondo68, Stoner (#21)

Yes, I immediately began thinking about what sort of evil deeds this was a diversion for?

Bomb/invade Venezuela, Syria/Golan Heights, Iran, Africa, or a domestic false flag "terror" attack here in the USA?

Something of the above nature. Yet TBD.

"They" are always trying to create crises out of thin air.

President Trump has a YUUUGE staff...

Calm down, Hondo. Trump didn't orchestrate his own mutiny and coup against himself either. Or towel-snap your azz. (AFAIK.)

It's some sort of coup ploy, to get him to hire America's worst aholes! That's what Lib tells us anyway.

It's what COMMON SENSE and or OWN EYES AND EARS tell us. Your position makes MINUS-ZERO sense.

Liberator  posted on  2019-04-11   14:56:45 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#26. To: hondo68 (#24)

Where's the Ron Paul "holy water" dish??

Don't I need to anoint myself in Paul's spit and do some kind of hexagon ritual before dismissing his insanity?

Btw, Paul exposed NOTHING in the way of GOVT corruption on the floor of Congress, introducing ZIP legislation to clean up Congressional corruption while he served all those decades. ZIP. NADA.

What say YOU??

Liberator  posted on  2019-04-11   15:00:46 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#27. To: Liberator, First, Do No Harm (#26)

Hippocratic Oath

RP introduced lots of bill, they just never got out of committee. Killed by deep state D&R party.

Doing no harm is an excellent record. If congress went home, we'd all be better off.


Hondo68  posted on  2019-04-11   15:10:43 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#28. To: Pinguinite (#9)

He got rid of the cat long ago.

Not according to various reports.

DailyBeast: Why Ecuador finally got sick of Julian Assange, 4/11/19

Assange was allowed back online in late 2018, but only after agreeing not to “carry out activities that could be considered political interference in the internal affairs of other states.” At the same time, Ecuador imposed a new and detailed set of rules on its fugitive guest, banning unannounced visitors, and requiring Assange to pay his own medical bills, clean up after himself in the bathroom and tend to the “well-being, food, cleanliness, and proper care” of his cat.

Assange bristled at the restrictions and took Ecuador’s foreign ministry to court. When he lost, he filed a complaint with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, which rejected it.

What happened next was perhaps inevitable. It was Lenín Moreno’s time in the barrel.

In late February, one of Moreno’s political rivals revealed he’d received a tranche of leaked documents from an anonymous source. The files, he claimed, showed Moreno had corruptly profited from a deal with a Chinese firm. The dossier was dubbed the “INA Papers,” after one of the shell companies allegedly used to channel the money, INA Investments Corp.

Tooconservative  posted on  2019-04-11   15:14:28 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#29. To: hondo68, Texas Straight Talk (#24)

Tooconservative  posted on  2019-04-11   15:19:16 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#30. To: hondo68 (#27)

RP introduced lots of bill...

Name just ONE bill from RP that might have been construed to address Congressional/GOVT ethics.

Thanks...

Liberator  posted on  2019-04-11   15:31:22 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#31. To: Liberator (#30)

Audit the FED.


Hondo68  posted on  2019-04-11   15:37:18 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#32. To: Willie Green (#10)

yeah

The whole lefT wing agenda

muTanTs

oh

The new drink

russian collusian

drink up

hemlock

If you ... don't use exclamation points --- you should't be typeing ! Commas - semicolons - question marks are for girlie boys !

BorisY  posted on  2019-04-11   15:57:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#33. To: Liberator (#12)

" What that rhyme and reason is...could be any number of reasons, can't it? "

It certainly could !!

Si vis pacem, para bellum

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

Never Pick A Fight With An Old Man He Will Just Shoot You He Can't Afford To Get Hurt

"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went." (Will Rogers)

"No one ever rescues an old dog. They lay in a cage until they die. PLEASE save one. None of us wants to die cold and alone... --Dennis Olson "

AMERICA! Designed by geniuses. Now run by idiots.

Stoner  posted on  2019-04-11   18:57:10 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#34. To: Stoner, Willie Green, Liberator (#33)

Who will be the first 2020 presidential candidate to promise to pardon Julian Assage?

I predict that most of the Democrat candidates will eventually, and probably all of the Libertarian ones.

Another good reason not to vote for Trump.


Hondo68  posted on  2019-04-11   19:20:49 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#35. To: hondo68 (#34)

Who will be the first 2020 presidential candidate to promise to pardon Julian Assage?

They all blame Assange for Trump getting elected.

So: zero.

Tooconservative  posted on  2019-04-11   19:48:46 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#36. To: A K A Stone (#0)

$5 says 99% of the information he has accumulated will never see the light of day unless they can somehow tie it all to Trump.

And you have to wonder how soon he will have a heart attack, kill himself with a spork or hang himself with a rope made from pubic hairs.

Vegetarians eat vegetables. Beware of humanitarians!

CZ82  posted on  2019-04-12   7:56:16 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#37. To: hondo68 (#34)

Who will be the first 2020 presidential candidate to promise to pardon Julian Assage?

Trump should do the right thing and pardon Assange, Manning and Snowden.

He is at war with the deep state establishment, right?

The Washington Establishment Seems Pretty Happy About Julian Assange's Arrest

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Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen.
The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.

Deckard  posted on  2019-04-12   8:44:29 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#38. To: Deckard (#37)

Why should Trump pardon the faggot Bradley Manning? He commited treason and should be executed.

A K A Stone  posted on  2019-04-12   9:44:59 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#39. To: A K A Stone, KushnerLeaks OK (#38)

the faggot Bradley Manning? He commited treason and should be executed.

Whoever approved it's top secret security clearance should be executed, Obama or dubya?

A guest on Tucker Carlson said that there's about a million people with top secret clearance, so yeah there are bound to be leaks. Jared Kushner is not eligible for TS clearance, but Trump gave him one anyway. He's leaker!


Hondo68  posted on  2019-04-12   10:11:28 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#40. To: hondo68 (#39)

Jared Kushner is not eligible for TS clearance, but Trump gave him one anyway. He's leaker!

Yeah and Netanyahu the great lost the election.

Honestly you're a dumb person.

A K A Stone  posted on  2019-04-12   10:21:46 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#41. To: hondo68 (#31)

Audit the FED.

Was that an actually Bill Paul sponsored?

Liberator  posted on  2019-04-12   10:23:21 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#42. To: hondo68 (#34)

I predict that most of the Democrat candidates will eventually, and probably all of the Libertarian ones [will pardon Assange.]

On what planet??

You realize Hitlery(D) was Assange's main target. NO WAY.

Liberator  posted on  2019-04-12   10:25:09 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#43. To: Tooconservative (#35)

They all blame Assange for Trump getting elected.

True.

Liberator  posted on  2019-04-12   10:25:51 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#44. To: CZ82 (#36)

$5 says 99% of the information he has accumulated will never see the light of day unless they can somehow tie it all to Trump.

Yup. They are already cooking up some kind of witch's brew BS story.

You have to wonder how soon he will have a heart attack, kill himself with a spork or hang himself with a rope made from pubic hairs.

OUCH! on that last one...Heh

I think these Monsters will do far worst and delight in some kind of demonic-like torture.

Liberator  posted on  2019-04-12   10:28:41 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#45. To: Deckard, A K A Stone (#37)

Trump should do the right thing and pardon Assange, Manning and Snowden.

He is at war with the deep state establishment, right?

Assange and Snowden helped expose the lies and evil planned against the citizenry, thus they are heroic.

Trump knows this, so do many in DC.

Pardons would PO the Swamp. Conundrum there.

Manning IMO was/is Deep State asset. Zero even commuted his VERY light sentence.

Liberator  posted on  2019-04-12   10:32:25 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#46. To: A K A Stone (#40)

Yeah and Netanyahu the great lost the election.

It's not how you vote that counts, but who counts the votes!

Kushner & Bibi. Another Banana Republican fake election.


Hondo68  posted on  2019-04-12   10:47:51 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#47. To: Liberator, FED mother lode of corruption, inflation taxes (#41)

The Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2015 (H.R. 24) was a bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives of the 114th United States Congress by Congressman Thomas Massie (KY-4). It included proposals for a reformed audit of the Federal Reserve System (the "Fed"). The Senate version was introduced by Senator Rand Paul (R-KY). (S. 264).

The original version of the bill, (H.R. 1207), was proposed by now retired Congressman Ron Paul in response to the 2008 financial crisis during the 111th United States Congress. The Senate version was introduced by Bernie Sanders (I-VT). (S. 604). Ron Paul was disappointed with the Senate's version of the bill, stating it "guts the spirit of a truly meaningful audit of the most crucial transactions of the Fed".[1]

The bill was subsequently brought up in the 112th United States Congress as (H.R. 459) /S. 202[2][3] and in the 113th United States Congress as (H.R. 24)/S. 209. All three previous attempts passed in United States House of Representatives but died in the US Senate.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_Transparency_Act

Ron Paul's audit the FED bill lives on, and is still being ignored by "leadership".


Hondo68  posted on  2019-04-12   10:53:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#48. To: hondo68 (#47)

Credit where credit is due!

Liberator  posted on  2019-04-12   11:05:23 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#49. To: hondo68 (#47) (Edited)

The Senate version was introduced by Bernie Sanders (I-VT). (S. 604).

Ron Paul was disappointed with the Senate's version of the bill, stating it "guts the spirit of a truly meaningful audit of the most crucial transactions of the Fed".

Bernie. What a poseur and snake. As was AND STILL IS the rest of the Senate.

Liberator  posted on  2019-04-12   11:06:36 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#50. To: A K A Stone (#40)

Netanyahu the great lost the election.

When?

He just won.

Liberator  posted on  2019-04-12   11:08:36 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#51. To: Liberator (#50)

When?

He just won.

According to the propaganda article Hondoper posted. Hondo just can't stop lying. It is who he is.

A K A Stone  posted on  2019-04-12   11:09:56 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#52. To: A K A Stone, hondo68 (#51)

According to the propaganda article Hondoper posted.

Hondo just can't stop lying.

Hondo -- stop guzzling from the Leftist-Globalist witch's cauldron.

BIBI WON!!!

(Muzzies, Palis, Jihadists, and Globalists saddened.)

Liberator  posted on  2019-04-12   11:33:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#53. To: Willie Green, Tooconservative, Pinguinite, CZ82 (#10) (Edited)

So my question is: how did somebody like that [MANNING] ever get "top secret" clearance to begin with?

...he/she was also an unstable nutjob on top of that! Just how someone like THAT get's to be an "intelligence analyst" is mind boggling....

EXACTLY. You've done The Math, Willie. Good job.

Based on your observations on Manning's apparent psychological profile of delusion, insanity, dis-qualification and instability, this provides the Exhibit "A" reasons Manning was a Deep State Mole FROM THE GET GO.

Of course then there was 0bama shortening his stay at a jail/Club Fed facility -- which didn't seem to evoke ourage or raise ANY eyebrows from the SAME hypocritical Senators and Congressman frothing at the mouth over hanging Assange.

Given the seriousness of the charge against Manning (who we are told worked FOR the US Military), why wouldn't Manning be as much or MORE a pariah OR "Enemy of the State" than Assange (who did NOT work for the US Military or GOVT)?

Liberator  posted on  2019-04-13   9:53:47 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#54. To: Liberator (#53)

It's Manning I want to see in prison for life, not Assange. I don't care that much about Assange.

Notice the phoney-baloney pols in both parties are ecstatic about the possibility of Britain letting us have Assange (not a done deal by any means). But how many of them have even mentioned revisiting the Manning case to find further charges against him? I don't think Obama could pardon him for any and all crimes committed, only the ones that he was convicted of. And they should be able to find more charges to put that treasonous man-bitch back behind bars where he belongs.

Tooconservative  posted on  2019-04-13   11:36:18 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#55. To: Tooconservative (#54)

It's Manning I want to see in prison for life, not Assange.

MANNING'S aggressive prosecution and imprisonment would at least prove DC isn't running theater & charades every single day, comprised of 110% liars, thieves, hypocrites, and blood sucking satanists.

Notice the phoney-baloney pols in both parties are ecstatic about the possibility of Britain letting us have Assange

Yup, also noted. I'm repulsed by this.

Just when I thought I couldn't respect them and their lack of integrity less, they prove me wrong. They're nothing but corrupt tool bags, even in THIS case told how to act, what to say in public.

How many of them have even mentioned revisiting the Manning case to find further charges against him?

Great question. Answer: NONE.

I don't think Obama could pardon him for any and all crimes committed, only the ones that he was convicted of. And they should be able to find more charges to put that treasonous man-bitch back behind bars where he belongs.

Lotta crap 0bama couldn't legally do via EO...yet, the GOPe cowards and crickets shut their whored-out traps.

Yes by ALL means, let's re-visit AND actually scrutinized exactly what process it was from 0bama and the Deep State "judicial system" that allow Manning to skate. (MSM AWOL as usual.)

Liberator  posted on  2019-04-13   12:01:05 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#56. To: Liberator (#53)

EXACTLY. You've done The Math, Willie. Good job.

But does that math lead back to "Don't Ask Don't Tell" like it should?

Vegetarians eat vegetables. Beware of humanitarians!

CZ82  posted on  2019-04-15   8:18:51 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#57. To: Liberator (#44)

You have to wonder how soon he will have a heart attack, kill himself with a spork or hang himself with a rope made from pubic hairs.

And the latest on Assange: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/sep/14/julian- assange-to-remain-in-jail-pending-extradition-to-us

Vegetarians eat vegetables. Beware of humanitarians!

CZ82  posted on  2019-09-22   7:56:15 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#58. To: CZ82 (#57)

Hey bro....

Linky no worky.

The Luciferian Snake secret police are (I assume) just been poisoning him slowly. IN CAPTIVITY. Like a animal.

Liberator  posted on  2019-09-22   10:10:21 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#59. To: Liberator (#58)

Linky no worky.

Now why doesn't that surprise me

Julian Assange to remain in jail pending extradition to US

WikiLeaks founder’s custody will be extended after current prison terms comes to end

Sat 14 Sep 2019 05.18 EDT Last modified on Sat 14 Sep 2019 06.22 EDT

Julian Assange will stay in prison after the custody period on his current jail term ends because of his “history of absconding”.

As home secretary, Sajid Javid signed an order in June allowing Assange’s extradition to the US over hacking allegations. A 50-week jail term was imposed in the UK after he had jumped previous bail by going into hiding in the Ecuadorian embassy in London.

The WikiLeaks founder would have been released from HMP Belmarsh on 22 September, Westminster magistrates court heard on Friday, but he was told he would be kept in jail because of “substantial grounds” for believing he would abscond again.

Assange, 48, who is an Australian citizen, appeared by video-link wearing a loose-fitting T-shirt.

District judge Vanessa Baraitser told him: “You have been produced today because your sentence of imprisonment is about to come to an end. When that happens your remand status changes from a serving prisoner to a person facing extradition.

“Therefore I have given your lawyer an opportunity to make an application for bail on your behalf and she has declined to do so, perhaps not surprisingly in light of your history of absconding in these proceedings.

“In my view I have substantial ground for believing if I release you, you will abscond again.”

Assange was asked if he understood what was happening. He replied: “Not really. I’m sure the lawyers will explain it.”

Another administrative hearing will take place on 11 October and a case management hearing on 21 October, the court heard. The final extradition hearing is expected in February.

Assange entered the Ecuadorian embassy in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he was wanted in connection with sexual offence allegations.He spent nearly seven years living in the building until police dragged him out in April after Ecuador revoked his political asylum.

Vegetarians eat vegetables. Beware of humanitarians!

CZ82  posted on  2019-09-22   12:41:04 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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