Barnaby Joyce on Julian Assange’s plea deal with US justice department
I think it’s important to reiterate this because you don’t want to have a narrative at one stage and then a different sort of you know triumphant narrative at another stage it was not really an issue about um Mr Assange if you asked me do I think what he did was morally correct no it wasn’t but the issue for me is extr territoriality this was an Australian citizen he was not a citizen of the United States he was not in the United States when this felony is what they said was was created he did not steal the information That Was Then Bradley Manning who is now Chelsea Manning he was not the first person to publish this information that was a gentleman I believe in the name of Doyle from cryptomania who first published it and if the um dissemination of this information is a crime then every person where I now stand in the parliament of Australia’s fourth estate is on their way to the United States of America because you all printed it and you know that creates massive confusions I didn’t want to I don’t want a place in Australia where if I offend the Quran I’m off to Riad if I offend the Chinese Communist party I’m off to beij or an Australian citizen who has offends a law in the United States is off the United States unless he’s in the United States when he when he commits it in that case it’s a it’s a completely different issue but um from what I read and of course we’re all very new to this it’s it’s still a plead deal on a felony as a plead deal on a felony he has to uh be heard on the soil of the United States and I read that that may be sipan island uh so we just got to be still cautious still cautious on how this proceeds because the end has not arrived
The former deputy PM cautiously welcomed developments that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will plead guilty to a felony charge in a deal with the US justice department that will allow him to walk free. Joyce was part of the delegation to lobby US law makers over Julian Assange.
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20 comments
A lot of people are now aware of Deepstate, shadow governements…………………. 🧡
Loving this bipartisanship
It won't be long before he f-s up again.
I hope Assange arrives in Australia as per agreement. I hope the US does not get up to any dirty tricks and Assange gets bundled on a flight to Washington DC and is never seen again.
Guardian tge dark news agrncy a dark nomebt in the gistory of democracy falling apart
The Australian government must be terrified that he was released from prison.
The role of the media in the persecution of Julian Assange must never be forgotten.
Having to plead guilty and being convicted by the war criminals he exposed. To be honest I'm surprised that The Guardian has anything to say about the persecution of Julian Assange, jailed for journalism.
Keep him safe australia. Free Julian Assange now
How does this fellow see publishing evidence of war crimes ads “immoral”?
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‘No one should judge’ WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for accepting deal, Australian MP says ► https://www.theguardian.com/media/article/2024/jun/25/julian-assange-mother-prison-release-plea-deal-return-australia?CMP=gdnaus_yt
US NATO and their allies need to be held accountable for war crimes in the illegal Iraq Genocide perpetrated by Bush. Julian Assange exposed the entire West.
GW Bush and Tony Blair belong in Belmarsh
Remember when the Guardian throw Assange under the bus and smeared him? – I do.
The Guardian used him then abandoned him
' not morally correct'. Only an immoral person would make a comment like that
He should face zero charges. It the US government who should be charged with war crimes.
America is so cringe
Well said