Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange has been arrested at the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
Mr Assange took refuge in the embassy seven years ago to avoid extradition to Sweden over a sexual assault case that has since been dropped.The Met Police said he was arrested for failing to surrender to the court.
Ecuador's president Lenin Moreno said it withdrew Mr Assange's asylum after his repeated violations of international conventions.
But Wikileaks tweeted that Ecuador had acted illegally in terminating Mr Assange's political asylum "in violation of international law".
Home Secretary Sajid Javid tweeted: "I can confirm Julian Assange is now in police custody and rightly facing justice in the UK"
It's a sad day for whistle-blowers, investigative journalists and truth-diggers everywhere.It's an even sadder day for what tattered shreds remain of the UK's reputation for the integrity of the rule of law and respect for truth and justice.
EU partner and NATO ally Turkey routinely persecutes,arrests,condemns by show-trials and imprisons thousands of journalists. In Malta. ( EU member state and member of the British Commonwealth), a government with much to fear sees to it that a fearless,incisive investigative journalist is murdered by a car bomb.In Slovakia,another EU member state,they do things a little differently.An investigative journalist exposing Italian Mafia links to high state officials is ruthlessly gunned down alongside his girlfriend.
No mainstream political party or politician of any consequence or standing in the UK let alone the rest of the EU has ever seriously addressed this carnage being visited upon the freedom of the Press and those exposing criminality of the highest order. Virtually no Trades Union nor extra-parliamentary organisation of the Left has even summoned up the superficial courage to voice outrage or organise against this.
The metropolitan Police itself,as journalist and Commentator nonpareil, Peter Hitchens once opined,are nothing more than " paramilitary social workers ".
Hundreds of law-abiding,respectable subjects of Her Majesty are brazenly accosted by the Police on a daily basis and subjected to State sanctioned harassment,intimidation and outright persecution on the ludicrous basis of having been reported - denounced anonymously, for having used what the Law calls " hate speech ". Hate speech is actually defined as -whatever the person reporting it as being, even if they themselves weren't the object of whatever was said or written about!
Julian Assange is being prepared for extradition to the USA to face the judgemental wrath of the Washington DC neocon /liberal humanitarian interventionist co-establishment.
In short,Julian Assange has made career of pissing off the wrong people more than just once too often and their patience has paid off.
As for me, I'm with the dissidents,the general nuisances to whatever establishment status quo feels like its being pissed off.
#IAmJulianAssange
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