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On a shitty day like today

Smoking a pipe by the fireplace would be okay

Even should we run out of puff

By getting cancer would be completely fair enough

For the world is completely mad

Full of humans that are completely bad

Killing children and women with unborn child

The rain and bombs falling from buckets

The storms and wars getting worse than beastly rackets

Life and death of all being weirdo strange 

As the bastards, in prison keep Julian Assange

Using hypocrisy, lies, pearls of upside wisdom

While they say without any humbling hesitation:

 

The U.S. continues to advocate for open and free press

Around the world and accountability 

For those who attack press freedom. 

On International Day to End Impunity 

for Crimes against Journalists, 

We honor these brave journalists 

Who continue to hold governments to account…

 

No matter what the Department of State writes,

Says, tells, blurts, speaks, rabbits on for our account

One cannot see beyond the numerous (multiple) spikes

The devious Americans throw on their no-thru road to the truth.

 

Americans say many things and behave being completely uncouth

Using Englanders for torturers and jailers’ spite

 

Free Julian Assange now and let free fly the simple truth.

 

Robert Urbanoski — 5 November 2023 

 

free Assange, please.....

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Sixteen Democratic and Republican members of US Congress have called for US President Joe Biden to withdraw the extradition request by the United States against Australian journalist and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, a document published by Assange's wife, Stella Assange, showed Thursday.

"As Members of Congress deeply committed to the principles of free speech and freedom of the press, we write to strongly encourage your Administration to withdraw the U.S. extradition request currently pending against Australian publisher Julian Assange and halt all prosecutorial proceedings against him as soon as possible," the document, published by Stella Assange on X (formerly known as Twitter), read.

The Members of Congress, namely James McGovern, Thomas Massie, Rashida Tlaib, Eric Burlison, Ilhan Omar, Paul Gosar, Ayanna Pressley, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Pramila Jayapal, Matthew Rosendale, Greg Casar, Cori Bush, Jamaal Bowman, Jesus Garcia, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, as well as Senator Rand Paul, said in the document that "deep concerns about this case have been repeatedly expressed by international media outlets, human right and press freedom advocates, and Members of Congress, among others."

 

 

The Members of Congress said they believe the US Department of Justice "acted correctly in 2013 ... when it declined to pursue charges against Mr. Assange for publishing the classified documents because it recognized that the prosecution would set a dangerous precedent."

 

They added that "it is the duty of journalists to seek out sources, including documentary evidence, in order to report to the public on the activities of government."

"The United States must not pursue an unnecessary prosecution that risks criminalizing common journalistic practices and thus chilling the work of the press. We urge you to ensure that this case be brought to a close in as timely a manner as possible," the document read.

Since April 2019, Assange has been held in London's high-security Belmarsh prison while he faces prosecution in the United States under the Espionage Act. If convicted, the WikiLeaks founder could face 175 years in prison. In December 2022, he appealed to the European Court of Human Rights to fight his extradition.

WikiLeaks was founded by Assange in 2006 but rose to prominence in 2010 when it began publishing large-scale leaks of classified government information, including from the US.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20231110/us-congress-members-call-for-biden-to-drop-us-extradition-request-against-assange-1114857853.html

 

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