SELF-OBSESSED TRAITOR ASSANGE ARRESTED

[Cannydc]

You're the single most uninformed poster this forum has ever had raven.

He isn't, Fletch.

Thinking when you are informed, when your information is highly likely to be BS means you are probably well up there.

[LordRaven]

You're the single most uninformed poster this forum has ever had raven.

I guess the irony escapes you completely Felch, you really are one unhinged human being.

Your constant posting of anti -western propaganda, quoting people/sources who have a clear anti-western agenda, shows you yourself are just an agenda merchant who will post any old shit to back up your idiotic hatred of the west.

As I have said before, please just fuck off to Syria or Iran, or perhaps to a terrorist training camp to join those you adore so much and see how that works out for you.

If you hate the west so much please leave with our blessings, when the shit hits the fan we will all need to pick a side and you definitely don't belong here.

[Fletch]

Judge Emma Arbuthnot refuses to recuse herself in show trial of Julian Assange

Judge Emma Arbuthnot has refused to recuse herself from WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s US extradition hearings. This is what “class justice” looks like.

Arbuthnot, Chief Magistrate and Senior District Judge for England and Wales, is flouting fundamental legal principles to ensure that she presides over a show trial against Assange, due to resume at Westminster Magistrates Court on February 25. If extradited, Assange faces charges under the Espionage Act, carrying a 175-year prison sentence. Further charges are pending, which could include the death penalty.

The “Guide to Judicial Conduct” in England and Wales, published in 2018, states that, “Judicial independence is a cornerstone of our system of government in a democratic society and a safeguard of the freedom and rights of the citizen under the rule of law. The judiciary must be seen to be independent of the legislative and executive arms of government both as individuals and as a whole.”

Arbuthnot should have automatically recused herself on this basis.

Her husband, James Norwich Arbuthnot, is a Conservative member of the House of Lords. He is intimately connected with the British armed forces and security services, whose criminal operations were exposed by WikiLeaks.

As a Tory MP, Lord Arbuthnot was between 2005 and 2014 the chair of the Defence Select Committee, the body overseeing the Ministry of Defence and Britain’s armed forces. His watch covered ongoing military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as the wars for regime change in Libya and Syria.

He is currently co-chair of the UK advisory board for defence manufacturer Thales and is an advisory board member of the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI). Lord Arbuthnot is also a former director at security and intelligence consultancy firm SC Strategy, where he worked for two years alongside co-directors Lord Carlile and Sir John Scarlett.

Carlile is a prominent defender of MI5 who supported the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 (nicknamed the Snoopers’ Charter) enabling the British state to access internet connection records without a warrant. He argued that Edward Snowden’s exposures of illegal mass state surveillance “amounted to a criminal act.’’ He oversaw the implementation of anti-terror legislation and reviewed national security procedures in Northern Ireland.

More at https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/0 ... a-j11.html

All very cosy and convenient, isn't it...

[Cannydc]

Just so everyone knows,

The World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) is an international socialist news site that is the online news and information publication of the International Committee of the Fourth International.

The International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) is the name of two Trotskyist internationals; one with sections named Socialist Equality Party which publishes the World Socialist Web Site, and another linked to the Workers Revolutionary Party in the UK.

Not that Fletch's links could be accused of far-left (Russian?) bias, of course.

[Fletch]

WTF canny?

And you claim to be left wing?

Does that make it all untrue?

Is her husband not actually James Norwich Arbuthnot, a Conservative member of the House of Lords then?

is it all wrong about his history and connections?

You've jumped on ravens's nonsense and now tag team all over the news section with him. Primarily to divert discussion and/or attention from uncomfortable truths about the Anglo-American empire and it's illegal and barbaric behaviour. Why would anyone want to do that, unless they are in full support of it, terrorists, regime change, extraordinary rendition, mass slaughter and economic terrorism included. The whole nine yards.

You're showing yourself to be as big a dick as raven, and he is well known for it in FW...over years and years!

[Fletch]

Just so everyone knows,

The World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) is an international socialist news site that is the online news and information publication of the International Committee of the Fourth International.

The International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) is the name of two Trotskyist internationals; one with sections named Socialist Equality Party which publishes the World Socialist Web Site, and another linked to the Workers Revolutionary Party in the UK.

Not that Fletch's links could be accused of far-left (Russian?) bias, of course.

About the ICFI

The World Socialist Web Site is published by the International Committee of the Fourth International, the leadership of the world socialist movement, the Fourth International founded by Leon Trotsky in 1938. The ICFI consists of Socialist Equality Party national sections throughout the world.

To contact the ICFI, click here, or use the contact information on the right column.

Access the ICFI/Marxist Library for documents on the history of the ICFI.

https://www.wsws.org/en/special/icfi.html

There's the link to mine, where the link to yours canny?

Missing...yet again. Just as Jack said, always missing.

[Cannydc]

Frankly, her husband has sweet FA to do with anything.

She is a respected judge, with absolutely no direct links to anything to do with defence etc.

She is also well aware that any perceptible bias in her rulings or summing up will be seized upon as grounds for appeal by his defence.

Just another day, just another conspiracy theory hunted out by you.

[Cannydc]

Why do you need links for simple facts?

Smacks of paranoia, Fletch.

[Fletch]

Why do you need links for simple facts?

Smacks of paranoia, Fletch.

Copy pastes should have link to source canny. Always been the case in news and yet you always want to hide where yours come from or pretend it's all your own work. Even after Jack brought it up and you denied it only the other day, here you are doing it again!

The Arms is for trolling. Take it there.

[Cannydc]

Why do you need links for simple facts?

Smacks of paranoia, Fletch.

Copy pastes should have link to source canny. Always been the case in news and yet you always want to hide where yours come from or pretend it's all your own work. Even after Jack brought it up and you denied it only the other day, here you are doing it again!

The Arms is for trolling. Take it there.

Are you actually saying that that post is incorrect ?

It was actually a couple of sentences that were an amalgum of several sources. No-one would bother to look including you.

You are being pathetically defensive, as ever. How about answering the point that the judge has no direct links with defence, and would be pulled up by the defence on any perceived bias ?

[Fletch]

Why do you need links for simple facts?

Smacks of paranoia, Fletch.

Copy pastes should have link to source canny. Always been the case in news and yet you always want to hide where yours come from or pretend it's all your own work. Even after Jack brought it up and you denied it only the other day, here you are doing it again!

The Arms is for trolling. Take it there.

Are you actually saying that that post is incorrect ?

It was actually a couple of sentences that were an amalgum of several sources. No-one would bother to look including you.

You are being pathetically defensive, as ever. How about answering the point that the judge has no direct links with defence, and would be pulled up by the defence on any perceived bias ?

Post links to copy pastes canny or post in the Arms.

[Fletch]

Does that make it all untrue?

Is her husband not actually James Norwich Arbuthnot, a Conservative member of the House of Lords then?

is it all wrong about his history and connections?

Meanwhile, the distraction from canny over this is obvious so canny, I've enlarged the relevant bit. Yes or no?

[Cannydc]

Her husband has nothing to do with the case, Fletch.

Sadly it's you who has allowed themselves to be diverted by another of your fave sites.

And if you think I am ever likely to comply with your 'orders' you are even more deluded than I thought.

In short, go fuck yourself.

[Fletch]

Her husband has nothing to do with the case, Fletch.

Sadly it's you who has allowed themselves to be diverted by another of your fave sites.

And if you think I am ever likely to comply with your 'orders' you are even more deluded than I thought.

In short, go fuck yourself.

As Assange’s legal team and UN Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer have argued, this “strong conflict of interest” requires Lady Arbuthnot to stand down from Assange’s case. Her husband’s entire political life has been dedicated to crushing the sort of transparency and accountability advocated by WikiLeaks.

The “Guide to Judicial Conduct” explicitly states, “Where a close member of a judge’s family is politically active, the judge needs to bear in mind the possibility that, in some proceedings, that political activity might raise concerns about the judge’s own impartiality and detachment from the political process and should act accordingly.”

Furthermore, “personal animosity towards a party is also a compelling reason for disqualification.”

Arbuthnot’s animosity toward Assange is on public record.

No legal argument will convince Arbuthnot to recuse herself. Her connections via her family to the security services are the very reason she has been selected to oversee this case. The British ruling class requires an official to rubber stamp Assange’s transfer to the US, in what amounts to an extraordinary rendition.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/0 ... a-j11.html

And not my orders about links, Stooo's policy and long has been in the news section.

Otherwise people might copy and paste sentences from different dodgy sites and try to make out the result is some authoritative statement or even their own work...

[Cannydc]

I'll gladly answer to Stooo - not you, Fletch.

As for your utterly one sided tale about the judge, do you still understand that he is equally, if not more likely to be extradited to Sweden ?