Agenda of Ecuador: squeeze and yield Assange

Agenda of Ecuador: Squeeze and surrender
Assange

It may be typical at a time when a
star of fleshy celluloid wonder Baywatch heavy
in bust and known for his sexual adventures, should figure
as a political voice. Pamela Anderson's views are treated
with a good sense – at least in some circles.
His association with Julian Assange gave a useless place
for columns on what, exactly, their relationship
is.

Have such advocates as Anderson added
at its visible support base, but it will not move the
bureaucrats who chew pens in anticipation and
think about the best way to eject it from the
Ecuadorian Embassy (compound would be more appropriate) in
London. Easily missed amid sneering celebrity gossip
is the fate of Assange sick, who faces the next
critical step of his stay in Ecuador
embassy

Since the change of the guard in Ecuador,
President Lenín Moreno showed a warmer feeling towards
United States, and the desire to raise the issue of
Assange stays at the embassy with US Vice President Mike
Pence with the urgency of the man who desires to get rid of a
problem. The British government was also brought into the
mix. The forces against Assange gather
with renewed impatience.

An obviously designed compression
break the will of the chief editor of WikiLeaks was
started in March, with a change of Wi-Fi at the Embassy
password effectively blocking its use of the Internet.
Phone calls and visits have also been reduced. the
Ecuadorian hospitality bill, if we can call it
has also become a topic of discussion – some $ 5 million
spent for the safety and various activities of Assange.
Attitudes towards an annoying guest have hardened.

The
press circuit has thickened more and more in recent days with
speculation about a series of high level discussions being
led by Ecuador and the British government on Assange. the
An Ecuadorian newspaper El Comercio remarked
talks. It was a tour that was not surprising, with Moreno
not impressed by the feats and powers of Assange, the
Australian seen in January as a
"Legacy problem" that had created "more than one
nuisance "for his government.

According to Glenn Greenwald the report that these
the discussions did more than touch the issue of handing over
Assange to the British authorities "seems to be true".
This could trigger an indictment of US authorities and
possible extradition procedures, a point raised by the
promise of US Attorney General Jeff
Sessions in April to "seek to put some people in
Assange 's "arrest" being a priority.
"I can not wait to see," joked Greenwald, "how much
false defenders of press freedom support this. "

RT & # 39; s
editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan feels that something
naughty is brewing. "My sources say [Julian] Assange
be handed over to Britain in the next few weeks or even days.
Like never before, I wish my sources were wrong. "

particular process, it seems, is led by Sir
Alan Duncan of the Foreign Office, the same individual who
had a pulse in March to call Assange that "miserable little
to "other parliamentarians."

The line which
Assange has been in arbitrary detention never quite cut
in Duncan's circles and he was hanging a carrot
with a spectacular condescension. "It's our wish," he told parliament last month, "that
this can be finished and we would like to do the
the assurance that if [Assange] came out of the embassy,
he would be treated with humanity and correctly and that the first
the priority would be to take care of his health, which we think
deteriorates. "

Such comments are always rounded
by this fanciful notion that Assange is "at the embassy of
his own choice. "This line of inventive
reiterated by the new British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt,
who issued a declaration of praise for Britain as "a
country of due process "eager to see that Assange" face
justice for those [serious] charges ":" At any time, he
wants he's free to go out in the street of
Knightsbridge and the British police will have a hot
welcome to him. "

Such grotesque insincere concerns
on health, fashioned as a weapon and an incentive by
Duncan, would be academic if Assange finds himself on the
dismal road to the United States guard, where the promises of a company and icy
welcome was made. He would simply be fed and
fattened for a notoriously cruel penitentiary system, similar to
the doctor treating a person on death row

Anderson herself
makes the relevant point about his urgent advocacy
for Assange. "My role is to let people know that it's a
to be human and not just a robot or a computer, and
It really makes a lot of sacrifices for all of us. He did not
saw the sunlight in six years. His skin is transparent. "

In what is nothing less than a war on what we can see,
know and interpret, those who wish to preserve the
the traditional patterns of power and the clandestine state remain
Adamant: Assange is a troublemaker who must
disappear.

Dr. Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth scholar
at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He teaches at RMIT
University,
Melbourne.

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