Free ASSANGE!

 

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So, I followed Peter Hitchens’ advice to write a letter to the Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, urging the release of Julian Assange. The more one looks at his case, the more upsetting and unjust it seems. Yet all we get from Blinken, we kowtowing Aussies, is a dismissive “you have to understand our concerns”. Yeah, right. Their concerns are about the fact that war crimes were revealed. 

So I wrote my letter on the spot and sent it off snail mail. It just may be, these days, that snail mail packs a punch more than emails. Maybe. Letter below the fold.

The Rt Hon Suella Braverman                                                   15 August 2023

Home Secretary

The Home Office

2 Marsham Street

London SW1P 4DF

 

Dear Ms Braverman

 

RE: Julian Assange

 

I urge you to release Julian Assange. 

 

The American demands for his extradition are very weak and threaten free speech everywhere. We should all adhere to the fine principle of the Pentagon Papers case. Conversely, if you continue to imprison Assange, or worse, ship him to the United States, that would be a grave contravention of that seminal free speech case. 

Recently in Australia Sec Blinken arrogantly dismissed our concerns, with smears about the Wikileaks having endangered people in the field. They did not. I clearly recall how Assange redacted any names of people who might have been endangered.

 

All of what Julian did was to reveal war crimes of a super power. 

 

Please live up to your name, Be Brave man. Be brave. Be bold. Resist the intemperate, the improper, the arrogant demands from the United States for Assange to be shipped back to the darkness of an American high security prison. And left to rot, for the “crime” of being a journalist. 

 

I urge you: please use your discretion to deny the extradition request. 

 

Peter Forsythe

Executive General Manager, Australian Trade Commission (Ret)

Hong Kong

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