The topic is Julian Assange and Ellsberg congratulating Ecuador for standing up to the British Empire to protect him.
Note that in the video Ellsberg mentions a coup, a policy coup in the US Government "10 years ago". General Wesley Clark said essentially the same thing in his speech before the Commonwealth Club of California back in 2007.
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http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10959-whistleblower-daniel-ellsberg-i-...
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the video
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Thanks, much appreciated. Also read your explanation of how to do it correctly the first time... use the Full HTML option. Will do this in the future.
U.S. is number one? Nah. Not anymore. It's shameful.
Russia issues warning to Britain over Assange
That language suggests legal remedies
if I'm not mistaken. Just guessing, but "grounds to contemplate the observance of the spirit and the letter of the Vienna Convention" sounds somewhat like invoke the Convention, which perhaps contains remedies. I see a mention of "compulsory settlement of disputes" before the International Court of Justice. This is an optional protocol, whatever that means. I wondered if Britain ratified that protocol.
Question is, who is going to enforce any law against the governments of the U.K. or the U.S.? Still one appreciates the clarity. Heaven help us, Russia is the champion of international law.
Ellsberg once pointed out that everything that Nixon did is legal today, and everything they did to him--searching his psychiatrist's office for example--is legal today.
I'm going to listen to that video now.
The U.S. system of justice
It's mind-boggling what is happening in our justice system. Kangaroo courts right out in the open--political imprisonment of Don Siegelman for political reasons on the instigation of Karl Rove, the kangaroo courts of suspected terrorists, children imprisoned on minor infractions as a result of kickbacks to judges, the show court Army hearings and courts martial, torturing Bradley Manning right out in the open. Everyone should read the transcripts from these Army hearings of soldiers accused of war crimes. They're absurd, truly literally as absurd as the novel Catch 22, as Mestrovich pointed out. Everything is controlled and pre-determined from start to finish.
We are the death of five centuries of jurisprudence which respected process and the rights of individuals. We are seeing it destroyed in this very generation.
I hope the U.K. backs down. I hope shame or embarrassment still works to some extent.
Fair to say alrighty.
I've described it as trying to make legal alot of stuff they did anyway, like torture, assassinations, regime changes, you name it. Blatantly bring it out in the open while slowly conditioning the public to accept it. The Navy, a Global Force for good. I don't know if it's a policy coup or just the next step in the Empire's fascist evolution.
As far as Assange and Wikileaks, I admit to some skepticism about the whole deal. Seems too manufactured in total. But I don't spend much time on it because I have an imagination.
If there is anyone out there, a group or organization that can use the info from Wikileaks to bring down some key people under the law, i.e., real evidence that can be used for justice, then that would be a good thing.. Thats what we all want isn't it, that's what everybody is saying is necessary in order to change things. As we've seen with the likes of Bernie Madoff and Jack Abraham, they have to be way up the food chain, i.e., something never done before in this country.
History repeating itself.