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"Assange is a Australian citizen. Their silence makes Australia a cuck nation?"

The High Court this week had one job: to decide whether Julian Assange should be granted a full appeal hearing or whether he should be immediately extradited to the US to face trial. Given two clear options they decided to do neither. Instead, with Assange approaching five years in Belmarsh high security prison, they decided to wait for even longer before making a final decision.

This latest delay is because the Court has asked the US government to supply ‘assurances’ that if Assange is put on trial in the US, he will be treated as if he were a US citizen, not a foreigner; that he will be guaranteed First Amendment freedom of speech protections; and that he will not face the death penalty. If the US fails to provide such assurances, then the judges will reconvene and grant a full appeal hearing. If its assurances satisfy the Court, then the extradition will proceed. All this will be argued through at yet another hearing on 20 May.

gabbar says

"Assange is a Australian citizen. Their silence makes Australia a cuck nation?"

No. Australia is demanding his immediate release. See "Australia's parliament has passed a motion calling on the US and
UK to release Julian Assange, ahead of a crucial legal hearing." https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-68302206

This latest delay is because the Court has asked the US government to supply ‘assurances’ that if Assange is put on trial in the US, he will be treated as if he were a US citizen, not a foreigner; that he will be guaranteed First Amendment freedom of speech protections;

In what many will agree was good news yesterday, object of elite hatred and Wikileaker Julian Assange won the right to appeal his extradition to the U.S., for alleged crimes of publishing leaked military documents about the Iraq and Afghanistan wars that embarrassed the United States. The BBC ran the story under the headline, “Julian Assange: Wikileaks founder can challenge US extradition.”

Even more embarrassing for the U.S., the reason the British court gave Assange another chance was because it was unconvinced the U.S. would honor Assange’s constitutional rights, particularly his free-speech rights.

In a short but dramatic ruling yesterday, which was literally the jailed journalist’s last chance to avoid extradition, two senior judges gave Assange permission to appeal the earlier order granting his extradition to the U.S. The judges ruled that Assange must be provided a full appeal in the UK.

The claim is that Assange leaked documents showing how the US military had covered up killing civilians during the Afghanistan war. In other words, the U.S. did what the ICC would consider war crimes, that is if it applied yesterday’s standard to President Obama. Specifically, the U.S. argues Assange “put lives at risk” by failing to redact the names of intelligence agents in the leaked documents.

For some reason, many people think Assange will not receive a fair trial in America. They seem to believe he’ll be relegated to the DOJ’s coach class along with President Trump and the January 6th Capitol tourists. That loss of trust in America’s judicial institutions is a bad sign, given that until recently, the U.S. used to be considered the ‘gold standard’ of justice.

But don’t worry! As we have been repeatedly reassured, we will save democracy by first flattening it into a dead roadside raccoon.

The claim is that Assange leaked documents showing how the US military had covered up killing civilians during the Afghanistan war.