For years, the UK and Sweden stymied Freedom of Information requests to hide why prosecutors under Keir Starmer pursued the Wikileaks founder. Finally the game may be up
I think you've uncovered the key point: that people are not willing to look. Whether they are professionals;, journalists, academics or just Jo public most people are simply disinterested, not willing to accept that they may have been wrong or intentionally turn away. This is an ongoing problem and is the reason why all these abominations keep happening. If even 30% of the general public were willing to get off their asses and do something go out on the streets, riot, stand outside the BBC day and night or something! maybe things would slowly change but we'd have to keep at it all the time for years on end, but people just want to sit at home and eat
It's good that we have a FoI act. It's not good that our elites conspire to get around their obligations to the public. It's a structural issue. Powerful people wnat to stay powerful at all cost. We need institutions that structurally discourage this behavior.
The deleted files will surely be deleted beyond recovery - certainly by the time any considerate judge is likely to see them Starmer can’t be found to be a “wrong ‘un” he served his masters so well they got him a knighthood. The system still stinks, and I doubt (unfortunately) anything will change. Ever.
I suspect if we're ever to see the release of those documents, they'll be coming from Sweden. The British bury things so deep they leave no trace. But somebody in the Swedish system may have made copies and put them in a safe place- or disappeared the correspondence in a way that makes retrieval possible. Just a hunch.
I didn't find those links helpful. One offered no translation from the Norwegian text. As for Bildt being a CIA asset, the same could be said of virtually every leader in Europe. That doesn't automatically settle the issue of whether a conscience-stricken functionary could break ranks. After all, we know that the reluctance to pursue Assange came from the Swedish prosecutor's office, not the CPS. The latter applied constant pressure- "Don't you dare get cold feet!"- to ensure compliance with Washington's demands. All I'm saying is that the Swedish system is a little more porous, having demonstrated institutional ambivalence in this matter not seen in the Crown Prosecution Service. Of course, I could be wrong. But the British state has a formal schedule for the delayed release of important information. Basically, it comes into play when everybody's dead.
1) Translate it yourself. Any number of translation resources available. The world does not exist in english only. Get used to it, its real life.
2) You offered only diversion from the facts: Sweden was run by a CIA stooge at the time, as was the CPS.
Since that time, both Sweden and Britain have been even more firmly controlled by the US security services.
No there will be nothing forthcoming from Sweden. And not even in the UK will this be released. Judge can be hit with a D-notice and its not even legal for you to know they were silenced.
Despite any huffing and putting. here is no rule of law here - these are authoritarian states run from across the Atlantic.
Thanks Jonathan. I hope Sheer Karma comes for Keir Starmer and his ilk. Not that it would make any difference. There’s a queue of hollowed out automatons, programmed by our globe spanning societal system, waiting to take his place.
Yet we are still supposed to believe that the Western nations supporting the "rules based international order" have legal and moral motives and actions which are a guide to the world.
"There are good grounds for believing that all four governments have coordinated their moves to cover up what would amount to legal abuses in the Assange case."
Nils Melzer, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture (and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment), when he finally looked into the case, including reading the Swedish court documents, concluded that yes, all four governments (UK, US, Sweden & Ecuador) colluded to abuse Assange. He had NEVER seen this before.
Thanks for the article. In the UK it’s becoming increasingly difficult to discover the truth about anything connected to Government behavior as we are simply lied to constantly and have been for years. However, most people I know still follow the MSM and will literally believe everything they say. If I point anyone in the direction of independent journalists or articles people are so brainwashed from birth it seems, and have no power of independent thought, that they still carry on believing the lies,
"Extraordinarily, and conveniently for both the UK and Sweden, it emerged during legal hearings in early 2023 that prosecutors in Stockholm claim to have destroyed the very same correspondence deleted by the CPS."
Those b£oody g£oba£i$€d dogs-of-war will insist on eating one's homeworKKK, M'£ud.
Britain became a police state under Thatcher, and I've seen nothing to suggest it's got anything other than worse under successive governments. Starmer is a model for unbridled opportunist and hypocrisy. Assange will NEVER be compensated, the establishment always closes ranks around each other
Behind ye o£de velvet g£ove-puppet par£iamentary facades the mailed mi£itary fist ever dwelt.
Mostly it was externa£i$€d via the neo-imperial 'commonwealth', squatted upon be ye o£de self-appointed roya£ dragons in their City of £ondon financia£ lair, and the £ayers of the renowned feudal c£a$$ $ystem..
I have watched both the British productions. I found the 'Coup' particularly chilling. Tim McInnery from Black Adder played a particularly nasty role I remember.
I think you've uncovered the key point: that people are not willing to look. Whether they are professionals;, journalists, academics or just Jo public most people are simply disinterested, not willing to accept that they may have been wrong or intentionally turn away. This is an ongoing problem and is the reason why all these abominations keep happening. If even 30% of the general public were willing to get off their asses and do something go out on the streets, riot, stand outside the BBC day and night or something! maybe things would slowly change but we'd have to keep at it all the time for years on end, but people just want to sit at home and eat
Thanks Jonathan, well highlighted 👏👏👏
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Thank You Jonathan
It's good that we have a FoI act. It's not good that our elites conspire to get around their obligations to the public. It's a structural issue. Powerful people wnat to stay powerful at all cost. We need institutions that structurally discourage this behavior.
What would such instiutions look like?
The deleted files will surely be deleted beyond recovery - certainly by the time any considerate judge is likely to see them Starmer can’t be found to be a “wrong ‘un” he served his masters so well they got him a knighthood. The system still stinks, and I doubt (unfortunately) anything will change. Ever.
I suspect if we're ever to see the release of those documents, they'll be coming from Sweden. The British bury things so deep they leave no trace. But somebody in the Swedish system may have made copies and put them in a safe place- or disappeared the correspondence in a way that makes retrieval possible. Just a hunch.
Sweden is caught even deeper in the matrix. Their prime minster at the time, was actually a known CIA asset:
https://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/wikileaks---carl-bildt-var-usa-informator/63379903
https://www.finansavisen.no/nyheter/politikk/2012/08/lover-assange-rettferdig-behandling
Stockholm syndrome takes on a new meaning here. But no you wont be getting any documents from Sweden.
I didn't find those links helpful. One offered no translation from the Norwegian text. As for Bildt being a CIA asset, the same could be said of virtually every leader in Europe. That doesn't automatically settle the issue of whether a conscience-stricken functionary could break ranks. After all, we know that the reluctance to pursue Assange came from the Swedish prosecutor's office, not the CPS. The latter applied constant pressure- "Don't you dare get cold feet!"- to ensure compliance with Washington's demands. All I'm saying is that the Swedish system is a little more porous, having demonstrated institutional ambivalence in this matter not seen in the Crown Prosecution Service. Of course, I could be wrong. But the British state has a formal schedule for the delayed release of important information. Basically, it comes into play when everybody's dead.
1) Translate it yourself. Any number of translation resources available. The world does not exist in english only. Get used to it, its real life.
2) You offered only diversion from the facts: Sweden was run by a CIA stooge at the time, as was the CPS.
Since that time, both Sweden and Britain have been even more firmly controlled by the US security services.
No there will be nothing forthcoming from Sweden. And not even in the UK will this be released. Judge can be hit with a D-notice and its not even legal for you to know they were silenced.
Despite any huffing and putting. here is no rule of law here - these are authoritarian states run from across the Atlantic.
Glad this is revealed….what a travesty!
Thanks Jonathan. I hope Sheer Karma comes for Keir Starmer and his ilk. Not that it would make any difference. There’s a queue of hollowed out automatons, programmed by our globe spanning societal system, waiting to take his place.
Karma for Starma?
I don’t think there’s a circle of hell adequate for that scrotum.
'FOI requests', "the worst decision I ever made", Tony Blair. The Truth is out there Tony (Oh No it's NOT!)
Yet we are still supposed to believe that the Western nations supporting the "rules based international order" have legal and moral motives and actions which are a guide to the world.
"There are good grounds for believing that all four governments have coordinated their moves to cover up what would amount to legal abuses in the Assange case."
Nils Melzer, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture (and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment), when he finally looked into the case, including reading the Swedish court documents, concluded that yes, all four governments (UK, US, Sweden & Ecuador) colluded to abuse Assange. He had NEVER seen this before.
The chances of the CPS coming clean are zilch.
Thanks for the article. In the UK it’s becoming increasingly difficult to discover the truth about anything connected to Government behavior as we are simply lied to constantly and have been for years. However, most people I know still follow the MSM and will literally believe everything they say. If I point anyone in the direction of independent journalists or articles people are so brainwashed from birth it seems, and have no power of independent thought, that they still carry on believing the lies,
One might hope that should this get wider exposure it will create a crisis for the Starmer government.
Wider exposure, where? Oh, maybe Elon Musk or Reform UK, they'd love to see Starmer screwed, or would they?
It would be on in the alternate media, or whatever you suggest. I'm not expecting the BBC to jump on it
"Extraordinarily, and conveniently for both the UK and Sweden, it emerged during legal hearings in early 2023 that prosecutors in Stockholm claim to have destroyed the very same correspondence deleted by the CPS."
Those b£oody g£oba£i$€d dogs-of-war will insist on eating one's homeworKKK, M'£ud.
Britain became a police state under Thatcher, and I've seen nothing to suggest it's got anything other than worse under successive governments. Starmer is a model for unbridled opportunist and hypocrisy. Assange will NEVER be compensated, the establishment always closes ranks around each other
Behind ye o£de velvet g£ove-puppet par£iamentary facades the mailed mi£itary fist ever dwelt.
Mostly it was externa£i$€d via the neo-imperial 'commonwealth', squatted upon be ye o£de self-appointed roya£ dragons in their City of £ondon financia£ lair, and the £ayers of the renowned feudal c£a$$ $ystem..
https://www.thejournal.ie/jeremy-corbyn-army-coup-nationalise-railway-2342053-Sep2015/
You’ve got that right. If you ever get the chance watch ‘a very British coup’ made in the eighties. A BBC drama too close for comfort
Indeed...I think it was Ray McNally played the PM.
House of Cards was another, not to mention Yes Minister.
Was it Shakespeare wrote '..many's the true word spoke in jest' ?
McAnally. That was a brilliant show.
I have watched both the British productions. I found the 'Coup' particularly chilling. Tim McInnery from Black Adder played a particularly nasty role I remember.