Julian Assange Scores Major Legal Victory as Court Orders Safe Passage of Wikileaks Founder Out of E

The preamble does not say what you claim it says. All one needs to do is read it in order to figure that out.

 

I never made such a claim.

 

What amuses me about Assange is his obsession with his own privacy.
And his virtue signalling about issues in his own society, but little about
other societies.
He even took umbrage at the release of the details against him in a
rape case. Bring it on, I say.

 

OP

Six effing years in persecuted captivity for no other reason than exposing the stupidity and the abject incompetence which is endemic in the ruling classes of the west. Hell hath no fury like despots exposed, and I still hope they die - and fast. It is the worst 'crime against the individual' case I've ever known - and in these days of over-the-top human rights too, where even serial killers have fair legal representation but he had none!

 

Yes, but six years snatched from his life as retribution by the vindictive despots he exposed? Whatever happened to 'freedom of expression'? Well make the most of your freedom of expression because these criminals intend to crush it.

 

Exactly the point I made in the OP. Because our nations political establishment no longer respect the rule of law unless it works for them. I find that disgraceful. And a sign that the elite in our nations is losing its grip. That, at least, is something to be positive about imo.

 

True. But it is far more important for Ecuador that under the new administration was beginning to buckle under US pressure. They now have the weight of Latin America behind them to resist that pressure (hopefully).

 

The real question is stolen by who and published by who?

It is not at all uncommon for the media to publish leaked state papers, even secret and classified ones. Since these are often leaked by important insiders, even VIP insiders - even though they've signed the secrecy laws - no legal action ensues.

Therefore, it comes down to who leaked the documents, not the leaking itself, and who published them, not the publishing itself, that determines if someone is to be charged and possibly imprisoned. Which means it is a political offence rather than a legal one.

And that's where we are with Assange. Despite following in a long media tradition of publishing embarrassing state documents/matters, he is being pursued and punished for just that.

As usual with the USA, what we are seeing with Assange are the hypocrisy and double standards in operation.

 

Intellectual property theft are civil laws. States do not get involved in those and Assange wouldn't have sought and received political sanctuary at the Ecuadorean Embassy for breach of those laws.