The WikiLeaks founder has been held in a prison outside London for the last five years and fought extradition to the U.S. He is expected to return to Australia.
This also gives precident that the United States can attack a Journalist - a non US Citzen with non US loyalties or oaths in a foriegn country that isn't even his own and brand them across the Empire. Hold and tourture them in a 3rd party prison and then strip away rights for the rest of his life all for the crime of reporting the Empire's crimes.
This should send shockwaves of horror across all of the Anglosphere and their client states.
This also gives precident that the United States can attack a Journalist - a non US Citzen with non US loyalties or oaths in a foriegn country that isn't even his own and brand them across the Empire. Hold and tourture them in a 3rd party prison and then strip away rights for the rest of his life all for the crime of reporting the Empire's crimes.
This should send shockwaves of horror across all of the Anglosphere and their client states.
The freedom of speech, press, right to write is effectively DEAD with this plea.. Fascism won.