DOUG SAUNDERS
Published Sunday, Dec. 05, 2010 8:55PM EST
Last updated Sunday, Dec. 05, 2010 9:02PM EST
At the centre of a tightening web of death threats, sex-crime accusations
threatened to unleash a "thermonuclear device" of completely unexpurgated
government files if he is forced to appear before authorities.
document-leaking service has embarrassed the United States and other countries by publishing hundreds of thousands of secret diplomatic and
military documents, has referred to the huge, unfiltered document as his
"insurance policy."
The 1.3-gigabyte file, distributed through file-sharing services this summer
and protected with an unbreakable 256-bit encryption key, contains full versions of all the U.S. documents received by WikiLeaks to date - including
those that have been withheld from publication or have had names and details
removed in order to protect the lives of spies, sources and soldiers.
Silent for the better part of a week as WikiLeaks made daily headlines
around the globe, Mr. Assange has been increasingly vocal in recent days,
defending his actions, decrying his critics and defying world leaders.
Mr. Assange's lawyer Mark Stephens warned that if Mr. Assange were to be
brought to trial on rape accusations he faces in Sweden, or for treason
charges that have been suggested by U.S. politicians, he would release the
encryption key. The tens of thousands of people who have downloaded the file
would instantly have access to the names, addresses and details contained in
the file.
WikiLeaks, Mr. Stephens said, has "been subject to cyberattacks and
censorship around the world and they need to protect themselves ... This is
what they believe to be a thermonuclear device in the information age."
He uttered that threat as his client was believed to be in hiding in
Britain, with prominent U.S. and Saudi officials calling for Mr. Assange's
arrest or death, justice officials attempting to shut down his websites in
many countries, and the Swedish justice system seeking him for questioning
on the sexual-crime allegations.
Mr. Assange has denied the accusation, made by two women who hosted a party
for him in Stockholm in August. He has acknowledged having had consensual
sex with the complainants. Reports say the sex became non-consensual over
disagreements about condom use.
This weekend he refused to respond to a European arrest warrant issued by
Sweden, and an Interpol alert related to the accusation. His lawyers argued
that the accusations amount to a smear campaign and suggested that U.S.
officials might be behind them.
The Swedish prosecutor took the unusual step of going before the news media
to say she has received no pressure or communication of any sort from
international or political authorities and that the charges are unrelated to
the leaks scandal.
"This investigation has proceeded perfectly normally without any political
pressure of any kind," prosecutor Marianne Ny told the Agence France-Presse
wire service. "It is completely independent."
A number of high-profile U.S. figures, including Republicans Sarah Palin and
Newt Gingrich, have called for the prosecution of Mr. Assange.
"Julian Assange is engaged in warfare," Mr. Gingrich said, echoing similar
words spoken by Ms. Palin and others last week. "Information terrorism,
which leads to people getting killed, is terrorism. And Julian Assange is
engaged in terrorism. He should be treated as an enemy combatant and
WikiLeaks should be closed down permanently and decisively."
However, U.S. charges against Mr. Assange are unlikely: He is not a U.S.
citizen and, because he did not steal the documents himself, but only
participated in their publication, he would likely be protected under the
U.S. Constitution's free-speech provisions.
The documents were reportedly stolen from a U.S. military installation by
Bradley Manning, a former private in the U.S. Army who copied years of
secret Pentagon and State Department communiqués and passed them to Mr.
Assange, who in turn brokered deals with worldwide media outlets to publish
details from them. Those details, despite some censorship by Mr. Assange and
the publishers, have shaken relations between the United States and Gulf
countries, Russia, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Mr. Manning is already being held in solitary confinement, and will likely
face treason and espionage charges. This has not stopped a growing chorus of
U.S. and foreign figures from pushing for punishment for Mr. Assange.
U.S. newspapers reported that a team of Justice Department and Pentagon
investigators is looking into the possibility of charges against Mr. Assange
under the Espionage Act. Attorney-General Eric Holder said "this is not
sabre-rattling" when asked by reporters about the possibility of charges.
Justice officials in Australia, where Mr. Assange was born, are reportedly
also looking into a prosecution.
That did not stop more figures from suggesting that Mr. Assange should be
harmed or killed - a circle that includes Canadian Tom Flanagan, a former
campaign manager to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who told a TV interviewer
last week that Mr. Assange should be assassinated (he later apologized for
the remark).
In an online interview with the Guardian newspaper, Mr. Assange said Mr.
Flanagan "should be charged with incitement to commit murder."
He also told reporters Barack Obama and his Secretary of State, Hillary
Clinton, should resign if they are shown to have authorized an operation to
spy on United Nations top officials - one of the many secrets revealed in
the leaked State Department cables.
"Obama must answer what he knew about this illegal order and when. If he
refuses to answer or there is evidence he approved of these actions, he must
resign," the WikiLeaks founder told the Spanish newspaper El Pais.
He suggested, not for the first time, that he believes his document service
has had a profound effect on world history: "I believe geopolitics will be
separated into pre- and post-Cablegate phases."
The disastrous effects of British politicians selling Britain into the thrall of foreign rule by the EU for their own personal rewards has damaged the well-being of Britain more than the armies of Hitler and the Franco - German - Italian axis of 1939 - 1945.
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On the basis of the laws and treaties already signed by our Queen and Prime Ministers,
What will life be like in the EU after the 6th Treaty is signed?
Our Westminster Parliament immediately becomes pointess as its remaining powers are transferred to Europe.
It is the formal end of Britain and England as nations.
Britain’s 153 embassies around the world will be closed as the ink from the Queen’s signature dries. (As Tony Blair refused to admit this has been agreed to, Jose Zapatero, the Prime Minister of Spain, confirmed it in a February 2005 radio broadcast.)
After the EU abolishes our 48 counties your address will change from 4 High St, Taunton, Somerset, Great Britain, to 4 High St, Taunton, Area K, European Union. (The glorious EU county “The South West Region” has had the postal address “Area K” assigned for over a decade.)
The Official National Anthem of the EU, which you should have known since 1971 is based on the melody “Ode to Joy” by Beethoven, formally replaces God save the Queen. The EU flag replaces the Union Jack, the red, blue and white nautical ensigns etc. (The EU Commission has already ordered (24.11.2005) our Merchant Navy to fly the EU flag in place of the red Ensign.)
The EU takes ownership and command of our Police, Army, Royal Navy, RAF, nuclear weapons, currency reserves, North Sea Oil. (See the EU Constitution below)
Serving officers in our police, army, navy and air force already know they will have to take an oath to the EU instead of to the Queen. If they don’t many have been told they will be dismissed. The EU will have complete military control of the UK.
The UK Independence Party will be banned under the 1999 ruling of the European court of Justice case c274/99, where it was held that it is illegal to criticise the EU.
The Conservative, Labour and Lib-dem parties will be abolished (only pan EU parties like the EPP or PES are allowed -see clause I.46.4 of the EU Constitution). It will then be blindingly obvious to even the dumbest politician there is no reason to keep Westmister open, and that the EU has the legal right to close it.
Many people will be excluded from the jobs they know best, as the EU’s demand that you must pay to be re-taught the job, and pay for a certificate before you can be employed, becomes universal.
Hundreds of thousands more small businesses will close on the enforcement of the remaining 100,000 EU regulations our government has already passed. Several million will be permanently unemployed as a result.
We will all be criminalised by the 107,000 regulations. Its impossible to know or understand 107,000 regulations, and the poor can’t possibly afford to comply. We will all be subject to frequent fines and arrest as a result.
Here are just 4 examples:
Under EU regulations it is now illegal for you to repair your plumbing, electrics or your car (from 1st January 2006). If you buy a boat over six feet long, built after the EU Recreational Craft Directive of 1999, and don’t pay the EU £4,000 to “measure” the boat, you get 6 months imprisonment. We will live under permanent threat of arrest and fear of the knock at the door that takes us away.
Massive corporations will do well, but with huge immigration allowed from the EU, they’ll be able to pay minimum wage everywhere, not just in the provinces as they do now. If you don’t accept the minimum they’ll employ a Pole or a Czekoslovakian.
Big corporations will also have a near monopoly (with the government) on employment and will be able to dictate unfavourable terms to staff without fear of contradiction.
Plum government jobs and corruption will ensure the wealth of politicians, bureaucrats, their businesses and associates at all levels of government, including local government and amongst our 7000+ quangos.
Society will divide into two: the remaining 60% of us will be either unemployed or treated abysmally on minimum wage.
Taxes will rise more steeply to pay for the even larger explosion in government growth and corruption
There will be no redress through local democracy because there won’t be any. The nine UK regional governments, which replace our 48 counties and councillors, will be unelected (see the European Regionisation plan). Our only vote is to the powerless EU parliament. We will be ruled by the 25 unelected Commisssioners, and have have no redress at any level; we will be as poor but have less freedom than Soviet Citizens.
If we demonstrate or protest we can be be seized and relocated to another region. The EU Arrest Warrant and Civil Contingencies Act 2004, with 20 other oppressive Acts the Queen has signed between 1972 and 2005, give the government absolute power over us. They can shoot us if they wish with no legal comeback – the shootings of innocents Philip Prout and Jean de Menezes were entirely legal under EU law.
The tendancy to pick on Muslims, as Germany used to pick on Jews, has already begun. Europe will be a very nasty place.
How long will the EU last?
Eventually, perhaps 15 years down the track, Europe will collapse under the weight of its own corruption, bureaucracy, and regulations. There will be so few productive businesses that even at 100% tax rates we will not be able to support the massive, corrupt and wasteful government. Many of us will be starving in the lead up to the collapse. After the collapse we may be able to leave the EU, if a dictator has not taken advantage of the complete absence of democratic checks and balances by seizing power. The Constitution of the EU is similar to the Soviet Union’s. That dictator is free to choose between a Soviet or Nazi style government. Then it could take 70 years to break free.
FABIAN FASCISM THE CHOICE!
AS IF TO PROVE IT–THE FOLLOWING BOOK WAS BANNED IN BRITAIN!!
On the basis of the laws and treaties already signed by our Queen and Prime Ministers,
What will life be like in the EU after the 6th Treaty is signed?
Our Westminster Parliament immediately becomes pointess as its remaining powers are transferred to Europe.
It is the formal end of Britain and England as nations.
Britain’s 153 embassies around the world will be closed as the ink from the Queen’s signature dries. (As Tony Blair refused to admit this has been agreed to, Jose Zapatero, the Prime Minister of Spain, confirmed it in a February 2005 radio broadcast.)
After the EU abolishes our 48 counties your address will change from 4 High St, Taunton, Somerset, Great Britain, to 4 High St, Taunton, Area K, European Union. (The glorious EU county “The South West Region” has had the postal address “Area K” assigned for over a decade.)
The Official National Anthem of the EU, which you should have known since 1971 is based on the melody “Ode to Joy” by Beethoven, formally replaces God save the Queen. The EU flag replaces the Union Jack, the red, blue and white nautical ensigns etc. (The EU Commission has already ordered (24.11.2005) our Merchant Navy to fly the EU flag in place of the red Ensign.)
The EU takes ownership and command of our Police, Army, Royal Navy, RAF, nuclear weapons, currency reserves, North Sea Oil. (See the EU Constitution below)
Serving officers in our police, army, navy and air force already know they will have to take an oath to the EU instead of to the Queen. If they don’t many have been told they will be dismissed. The EU will have complete military control of the UK.
The UK Independence Party will be banned under the 1999 ruling of the European court of Justice case c274/99, where it was held that it is illegal to criticise the EU.
The Conservative, Labour and Lib-dem parties will be abolished (only pan EU parties like the EPP or PES are allowed -see clause I.46.4 of the EU Constitution). It will then be blindingly obvious to even the dumbest politician there is no reason to keep Westmister open, and that the EU has the legal right to close it.
Many people will be excluded from the jobs they know best, as the EU’s demand that you must pay to be re-taught the job, and pay for a certificate before you can be employed, becomes universal.
Hundreds of thousands more small businesses will close on the enforcement of the remaining 100,000 EU regulations our government has already passed. Several million will be permanently unemployed as a result.
We will all be criminalised by the 107,000 regulations. Its impossible to know or understand 107,000 regulations, and the poor can’t possibly afford to comply. We will all be subject to frequent fines and arrest as a result.
Here are just 4 examples:
Under EU regulations it is now illegal for you to repair your plumbing, electrics or your car (from 1st January 2006). If you buy a boat over six feet long, built after the EU Recreational Craft Directive of 1999, and don’t pay the EU £4,000 to “measure” the boat, you get 6 months imprisonment. We will live under permanent threat of arrest and fear of the knock at the door that takes us away.
Massive corporations will do well, but with huge immigration allowed from the EU, they’ll be able to pay minimum wage everywhere, not just in the provinces as they do now. If you don’t accept the minimum they’ll employ a Pole or a Czekoslovakian.
Big corporations will also have a near monopoly (with the government) on employment and will be able to dictate unfavourable terms to staff without fear of contradiction.
Plum government jobs and corruption will ensure the wealth of politicians, bureaucrats, their businesses and associates at all levels of government, including local government and amongst our 7000+ quangos.
Society will divide into two: the remaining 60% of us will be either unemployed or treated abysmally on minimum wage.
Taxes will rise more steeply to pay for the even larger explosion in government growth and corruption
There will be no redress through local democracy because there won’t be any. The nine UK regional governments, which replace our 48 counties and councillors, will be unelected (see the European Regionisation plan). Our only vote is to the powerless EU parliament. We will be ruled by the 25 unelected Commisssioners, and have have no redress at any level; we will be as poor but have less freedom than Soviet Citizens.
If we demonstrate or protest we can be be seized and relocated to another region. The EU Arrest Warrant and Civil Contingencies Act 2004, with 20 other oppressive Acts the Queen has signed between 1972 and 2005, give the government absolute power over us. They can shoot us if they wish with no legal comeback – the shootings of innocents Philip Prout and Jean de Menezes were entirely legal under EU law. AND RODNEY AZELLE SHOT IN THE HEAD 5 TIMES 12 WEEKS BEFORE DE MENEZES….
The Evidence That Britons And Americans Are Living In Fascist Countries
Vernon Coleman
Fascism was invented by Benito Mussolini. Here is how he defined it:
`Liberalism denied the state in the name of the individual; fascism reasserts the rights of the state as expressing the real essence of the individual.’
He also pointed out that: `the more complicated the forms of civilisation, the more restricted the freedom of the individual must become.’
Today, both America and Britain have fascist Governments. Fascism reduces our freedom and privacy because only the state really matters and the state (and those who work for it and control it) take precedence over everyone and everything else.
: the state comes first and the people come second. The state’s employees exist to defend the state (rather than to care for the people) and their loyalties are to the state. That’s the fundamental difference between a fascist state and any sort of democracy.
Democratic states provide leadership; representing the people in the nation’s relations with other countries and making decisions designed to protect the safety of the citizens. They also manage the infrastructure without which no country can survive; providing services which can not properly be provided by individuals within communities.
Any time a government does anything that isn’t protecting the lives, liberty and property of its citizens it is exceeding its authority.
Running an army is an essential government activity. Providing a decent transport infrastructure (roads and railways) is an essential government activity. Starting wars for no good reason is not within the remit of a proper government.
Politicians in the world’s two largest fascist countries, who were hired to protect individual citizens, have adopted policies designed to exploit the citizens and to take advantage of them. Politicians who were elected to look after the voters now expose the people they are paid to look after to increased danger. These fascist governments exists to protect their own survival (and the survival of the politicians) rather than to protect the interests of the electorate.
The people didn’t want to go to war with Iraq. Parliament didn’t want to go to war with Iraq. It was always clear that going to war with Iraq would dramatically increase – not reduce – the danger to individual citizens. (Decent countries don’t start wars unless they are necessary for the defence of the realm.)
In the end Britain went to war with Iraq because it suited Blair’s personal agenda. We went to war with Iraq so that he could ingratiate himself with Bush and other powerful Americans and, therefore, ensure for himself a more than ample income on his retirement.
The micro management fascist style of government favoured by the British Labour party has led to another dramatic change in the way people behave. The Government’s programme of welfare support and its blind enthusiasm for means-testing mean that increasing numbers of people are now content to lie back and let their nation look after them. Instead of encouraging and rewarding self-sufficiency we are encouraging dependence. This is not going to be easy to cure and is almost certain to get considerably worse before it gets better. There are millions of citizens in Britain today who genuinely believe that the State owes them a living. They seem to assume that the State has a duty to provide them with money and services, and they never seem to question the origin of either. Their dependence on the State is the reason for their loyalty to the State. They will keep voting for the fascist state because it cares for them.
Here are some very specific examples of the fascist state in action:
1. A woman who read out the names of British soldiers who had died in Iraq was arrested.
2. An animal rights campaigner, peacefully inviting passers-by to look at his leaflets about vivisection was reported by
the police for a breach of the 1824 Vagrancy Act because he `attempted to obtain or gather alms by exposing wounds or deformities’. It took three policemen and two community support officers to invoke the 1824 Act (which was originally designed to stop soldiers who had returned from the Napoleonic Wars displaying their tattered limbs in the street in an attempt to beg for money for food) and to take away the campaigners animal rights material.
3. A heckler who dared shout out Nonsense during a speech by the hideous Jack Straw at the 2005 Labour Party Conference was manhandled and forcibly ejected from the building by two stewards (one of them a professional bouncer). He had his security pass confiscated. The 82-year-old Jewish refugee of Nazi Germany, mildly diabetic and hard of hearing, was detained under the Terrorism Act when he tried to re-enter the hall.
4. A woman who wore a T-shirt carrying the words `Bollocks to Blair’ was taken away by police.
5. A woman who said on the radio that she did not believe homosexuals should be allowed to adopt children was contacted by the police who told her that she had been responsible for a homophobic incident – which they regarded as a priority crime.
6. When the Chinese leader last visited Britain, people concerned about China’s record on human rights wanted to protest peacefully. They were dragged away by police to avoid embarrassing the Chinese leader.
7. Six students at Lancaster University were prosecuted for demonstrating on their own campus. The students were charged with `aggravated trespass’ after they heckled at a corporate conference held in one of the University’s buildings attended by representatives of an arms dealer, an oil company and a drug company. The protestors, who were accused of interrupting a speech by Lord Sainsbury of Turville (the Labour Government’s Science Minister) said that they were concerned about the commercialisation of research. One of the students was arrested immediately after the protest, the other five were summonsed five months later.
8. The British Government has brought in endless European laws which are not wanted by the British people. It is planning to break up England into nine regions. No one has ever been given the opportunity to vote for this. Voters in the North East of England were given the chance to vote for or against a Regional Parliament. They rejected the Regional Parliament. But all nine new regions of England have had secret Parliaments for years. The vote was an undemocratic nonsense.
9. A footballer in Scotland was arrested for making the sign of the cross.
10. During the European elections a pensioner put up a poster on which he wrote: `Free speech for England. Don’t forget the 1945 war.’ He was arrested and charged with racially aggravated criminal damage.
11. There are around four million surveillance cameras in Britain. That is more than six per square mile. Only Monaco (where every square inch of the principality is under 24 hour Government video surveillance) has more cameras. It won’t be long before Britain catches up since our Government is having more cameras installed every day. The evidence shows that they don’t help the police catch criminals and they don’t prevent crime. CCTV cameras are the main reason why so many city-centre thugs now wander around wearing hooded jackets.
12. A group of excited schoolchildren, visiting London for the day to take photographs in aid of charity, were marched away when they tried to take photographs of Trafalgar Square.
There are dozens more examples of practical fascism in action in my book Living In A Fascist Country. The police in Britain are allowed to shoot innocent people with impunity. They can drive at 159 mph without even having points put on their licence. The Government has brought in so many oppressive new laws that not even the lawyers can keep up with them. It’s difficult even for decent citizens to avoid breaking the law on an almost daily basis.
And day by day it’s getting worse.
Vernon Coleman is the author of Living In A Fascist Country, published by Blue Books (346 pp). Advertisements for Living In A Fascist Country have been banned in the United Kingdom. Available from the shop on this website. From other webshops. And from terrestial bookshops. Or direct from Publishing House (see contact details on this website). Tel 00 44 (0) 1271 328892.
BANNED- PROPER LITTLE FASCISTS BY THEIR ACTIONS!!
FAGS BAN- SO DID HITLER!
Vernon Coleman
Those who warn that there are politicians and bankers who want to create a world government are usually dismissed as `cranks’ and `conspiracy theorists’. Talk of a New World Order is sneered at as an example of paranoia. Criticisms of the Bilderbergers are laughed off as of no account.
But are these fears really so crazy?
In 1996, the United Nations published a 420-page report entitled `Our Global Neighbourhood’ which outlined a plan for global governance. In 2001, when UN Secretary General Kofi Annan received the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the United Nations, he said: `In the twenty-fitst century I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion. This will require us to look beyond the framework of states, and beneath the surface of nations or communities.’
What was Annan talking about, if not a global government?
Many politicians (including Mikhail Gorbachev, former President of the Soviet Union) have argued that we need a world government. Gorbachev and others contend that we need a global institution to deal with global warming!
In September 2005, Bill Clinton organised a `Global Initiative to bring together world leaders to `make a difference’.
There are a number of organisations trying to create a world government. The United Nations, the G8 and the European Union are just a few of them.
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