"I Will Not Forgive I Will Not Forget" Jullian Assange Speaks Out

"Today is an important day for me, and for the UN Human Rights System.  But if by no means erases 7 years of detention without charge, under house arrest, and almost 5 years here in this embassy without sunlight.  7 years without charge while my children grew up without me.  That is not something that I can forgive.  It is not something that I can forget.  The inevitable inquiry into what has occurred in this moment of terrible injustice, it's something that I hope will be more then just about me and this situation.  Because the reality is that detention and extradition without charge has become a feature of the European Union.  A feature which is being exploited, yes, in my case for political reasons.  But, in other cases has subjected many people to terrible injustice.  In Sweden, indefinite detention is a policy meaning there is no time limit that one can be detained without charge.  That is not how we expect a civilized state to behave.  Similarly extradition without charge is not something that we expect from the rule of law in the United Kingdom.  It's a measure that was introduced as part of the European Union system, to turn the EU into a federation.  In 2014, in response to my situation, and other abuses, the UK government changed the law to prevent further extradition without charge from the UK, but it is still a problem in the rest of the EU."

"I would like to thank in this situation, the UN, particularly its human rights system, which is the last resort that we all have when we are bound up in our legal circumstances, with our particular politics of a country.  Or the G.O. politics that exist between different states.  I would also like to thank Ecuador, its people and its asylum people, who have stood by my asylum, despite very intense pressure, including the pressure to use the EU trade system to penalize Ecuadorian exporters, a terrible violation," he adds.  I would also like to thank my legal team who have worked very hard, and for no money, and all the other people who have stood by me in this process."

"But let us understand that while today was an important victory, and an important vindication, the road is far from over.  The war, the proper war, is just commencing the UK will arrest me regardless.  Now, the United States C.I.A. directer Pompeo, and the U.S. Attorney General, have said that I and other Wikileaks staff have no rights.  We have no first amendment rights; and my arrest and the arrest of other stuff, is a priority."  He goes on stating, "that's not acceptable.  Wikileaks will continue its publications," as will I keep blogging about the crimes against humanity in this manner, "Today, in fact, we published a new and important material from the Central Intelligence Agency, C.I.A. Vault Seven Athena (Program), a system to try to spy on, in a statistical way, anyone that the C.I.A. happens to be interested in.  Such measures are conducted without warrant, and the threats towards me, my stuff, and the Wikileaks as a publisher will not be tolerated and have not been tolerated, publications are proceeding at speed, and that speed in relations to the C.I.A. is accelerating.  But finally, in relation to asylum rights, that we all have, we all have them.  The UK, EU, is a party to the 1951 convention refugee's, it states that it adhere's for the right for all people to seek asylum, to receive asylum, and to enjoy asylum, I have that right, you know in a political case, we all have that right.  So, the claim by the UK, that it has the right to arrest me for seeking asylum, in a case where there have been no charges, which is now being dismissed, is simply untenable.  My staff, my legal staff have contacted the United Kingdom authorities, and we hope to engage in a dialogue about what is the best way forward and to some extent the UK has been exploited by the process that it entered into with the EU, where it agreed to expedite people without charge or any consideration as to the facts.  That is to an extent a forced position the United Kingdom has been forced into and the first part of that is over.  The UK refuses to confirm or deny at this stage where a U.S. ex-edition warrant is already in UK territory.  So, that's the dialogue that we want to have happen, similarly with the United States, there have been extremely threatening remarks made.  I'm always happy to engage in a dialogue with the Department of Justice about what has occurred."

"Finally, we have had another very important victory this week, even more important, and more conclusive than the one we have achieved today and that is the release of Chelsea Manning from prison, after 7 years detained in a military prison through an extensive fight, me and others have managed to have him released 28 years early from his sentence alleged with Wikileaks source Chelsea Manning.  Some very important victories but with a legal conflict with the United States and the United Kingdom, that our formal level continues and I as a publisher encourage you to continue to support us in that fight for all of us and our alleged sources, of course, and also our precedence is being set, a precedence about how the people have the right to seek asylum, and the right to whether we the people have the right to publish information, all of us.  How can it be that a journalist, or a publisher operating from Europe can be extradited to the United States?  We don't operate in the United States, We don't publish from the United States.  So, that's a threat to all journalists from around the world wherever they operate, that, if they expose serious abuses that occur in the national security domain, there is a threat to extradite them or indite their organization or their stuff, okay, that's it, thanks guys."

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We have to stand up for human rights where they are being violated before they continue to take more life away from the ability that we otherwise would have.  We must not take the abuse from anywhere, no matter how powerful it thinks that it is.  We have to take a stand against the tyranny that it represents us in a threat to speak out, and to speak our mind about real issues that are occurring in our world and on just information that we should be allowed to obtain.  Especially when it has to do with our livelihoods at stake, we mustn't take more of the abuse and we must stand firm in knowing that our place in this world has got to be more cherished and way more better then it has been for us, when we are being out ruled by a rule of law and a legal system that doesn't care for its people over profit.  We must take a stand, create movements and crumble the idea of global elites coming to take our freedom and joy away from us wherever it seems to find a way to slither into our lives.  We must not stand for the American system when it warrants us to have no rights, no privacy, and act to subvert our human nature with how it can abruptly steal anything it wants from us including our homes, families and money.  We have to stop and think about what we are allowing to take place in this here world, and in this here America.