It is unbelievable that this kind of persecution can be allowed to persist. It is indicative that there exists a great evil.
I think he Assange is being used to put fear into people, i.e. to terrorize whistleblowers who have evidence and want to expose the rot that has penetrated so deep that it will cause massive disruption of the fraud that takes place behind the scenes.
A perfect example of why protectionism is so evil as was described Legal Plunder in "The law" by Frédéric Bastiat .
"Then abolish this law without delay, for it is not only an evil itself, but also it is a fertile source for further evils because it invites reprisals. If such a law—which may be an isolated case—is not abolished immediately, it will spread, multiply, and develop into a system."
I think Niels Melzer's comment, the former U.N. Rapporteur on Torture, summarises the situation well. He'd never seen four nations gang up on a single individual ever before.
This demonstrates the level of political/economic influence that the USA has had. That they chose to do this with that influence is the descriptor.
“In 20 years of work with victims of war, violence and political persecution I have never seen a group of democratic States ganging up to deliberately isolate, demonize and abuse a single individual for such a long time and with so little regard for human dignity and the rule of law,” Mr. Melzer asserted.
It is unbelievable that this kind of persecution can be allowed to persist. It is indicative that there exists a great evil.
I think he Assange is being used to put fear into people, i.e. to terrorize whistleblowers who have evidence and want to expose the rot that has penetrated so deep that it will cause massive disruption of the fraud that takes place behind the scenes.
A perfect example of why protectionism is so evil as was described Legal Plunder in "The law" by Frédéric Bastiat .
"Then abolish this law without delay, for it is not only an evil itself, but also it is a fertile source for further evils because it invites reprisals. If such a law—which may be an isolated case—is not abolished immediately, it will spread, multiply, and develop into a system."
I think Niels Melzer's comment, the former U.N. Rapporteur on Torture, summarises the situation well. He'd never seen four nations gang up on a single individual ever before.
This demonstrates the level of political/economic influence that the USA has had. That they chose to do this with that influence is the descriptor.
Thanks It was Nils Melzer?
Yes. https://www.ohchr.org/en/special-procedures/sr-torture/nils-melzer
“In 20 years of work with victims of war, violence and political persecution I have never seen a group of democratic States ganging up to deliberately isolate, demonize and abuse a single individual for such a long time and with so little regard for human dignity and the rule of law,” Mr. Melzer asserted.
https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/05/1039581