Paul Craig Roberts, a person with a triple barrelled name, has hammered it home on the abuse of rights that Julian Assange has faced. Apparently Julian cannot even meet with his lawyers in the Ecuadorean embassy, and cannot go out for hospital treatment. Gee, one would have thought that the Deepers would have done something more movie-like, such as sending in a hit team, say a pack of rogue seals or sea lions, but no, they just want him to suffer and rot. That will teach anyone to let out, or rather not, let out secrets:
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-11-23/paul-craig-roberts-assange-justice-has-disappeared-west
“What has Assange done? He has done nothing but to tell the truth. He is a journalist who heads Wikileaks, a news organization that publishes leaked documents - exactly as the New York Times published the leaked Pentagon Papers from Daniel Ellsberg. Just as the publication of the Pentagon Papers embarrassed the US government and helped to bring about the end of the senseless Vietnam War, the documents leaked to Wikileaks embarrassed the US government by revealing Washington’s war crimes, lies, and deception of the American people and US allies. The allies, of course, were bought off by Washington and remained silent, but Washington intends to crucify Assange for the embarrassment and payoff expense he caused the criminal government in Washington. In order to assert authority over Assange, Washington is using the extra-territoriality of US law, a claim that Washington bases not on law but on might alone and uses to violate the sovereignty of independent countries. Assange is a citizen of Australia and Ecuador. He is not subject to US law. Even if he were, he has committed no espionage. The false equivalence Washington is trying to establish between the exercise of the First Amendment and treason shows how totally lost are the American people. The silence of the US media demonstrates that the presstitutes don’t mind losing the First Amendment’s protection as they have no intention of telling any truths.