The messenger gets 1,000 days (and counting) in Belmarsh high- security gaol

and the perpetrator gets a knighthood

Such is the state of British justice.

JULIAN ASSANGE was doing his job as a journalist when he published documents which had been leaked to him revealing crimes committed by US forces in Guantanamo Bay, Afghanistan and Iraq. Revealing the truth of what was going on was very much in the public interest to the people of the US and its allies.

He was first accused of endangering the lives of US personel. When this was proved to be false, as the names of individuals had been redacted, the US continued to hound him with the threat of spending the rest of his life in prison.

Now that he is in the UK, our justice system is proving to act as no more than the justice system of a puppet state. Under the inequitable US/UK extradition treaty, the US is seeking Assange’s extradition. His lawyers are taking his case to the UK Supreme Court. A government which was not so lame  in kowtowing to the US would have categorically refused extradition and released Assange long before now. His position is in sharp contrast to that of Blair, who shares responsibility with Dubya for the war crimes committed in Iraq and Afghanistan and he gets a knighthood and obeisance from Johnson and Starmer.