{"id":42179,"date":"2019-10-24T12:44:31","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T19:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=42179"},"modified":"2019-10-24T12:44:31","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T19:44:31","slug":"what-theyre-doing-to-assange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/24\/what-theyre-doing-to-assange\/","title":{"rendered":"What they&#8217;re doing to Assange &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.craigmurray.org.uk\/archives\/2019\/10\/assange-in-court\/\" target=\"_blank\">at least as bad<\/a> as (possibly much worse than) rumors have said.<\/p>\n<p>And although this is being done by Britain, we all know who it is being done <em>for<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I was deeply shaken while witnessing yesterday\u2019s events in Westminster Magistrates Court. Every decision was railroaded through over the scarcely heard arguments and objections of Assange\u2019s legal team, by a magistrate who barely pretended to be listening.<\/p>\n<p>Before I get on to the blatant lack of fair process, the first thing I must note was Julian\u2019s condition. I was badly shocked by just how much weight my friend has lost, by the speed his hair has receded and by the appearance of premature and vastly accelerated ageing. He has a pronounced limp I have never seen before. Since his arrest he has lost over 15 kg in weight.<\/p>\n<p>But his physical appearance was not as shocking as his mental deterioration. When asked to give his name and date of birth, he struggled visibly over several seconds to recall both. I will come to the important content of his statement at the end of proceedings in due course, but his difficulty in making it was very evident; it was a real struggle for him to articulate the words and focus his train of thought. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Do you hear the outrage in the U.S. media? &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[crickets]<\/p>\n<p>This is what happens to <em>real<\/em> whistleblowers, unlike the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/political-commentary\/whistleblower-ukraine-trump-impeach-cia-spying-895529\/\" target=\"_blank\">probable Deep State plant<\/a> currently being touted as a hero for stirring up more dirt against Trump.<\/p>\n<p>(H\/T S for the heads-up on Assange)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; is at least as bad as (possibly much worse than) rumors have said. And although this is being done by Britain, we all know who it is being done for. I was deeply shaken while witnessing yesterday\u2019s events in Westminster Magistrates Court. Every decision was railroaded through over the scarcely heard arguments and objections of Assange\u2019s legal team, by a magistrate who barely pretended to be listening. Before I get on to the blatant lack of fair process, the first thing I must note was Julian\u2019s condition. I was badly shocked by just how much weight my friend has&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/24\/what-theyre-doing-to-assange\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What they&#8217;re doing to Assange &#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,11,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-insanity","category-free-speech","category-government","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42180,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42179\/revisions\/42180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}