At long last Julian Assange has been taken down from his cross
Hell is empty and all the devils are here. William Shakespeare
The release of Julian Assange from Belmarsh Prison in London, after 5 years, is testament to the power of the human spirit when engaged in the struggle or a just cause.
The transparent face-saving stunt of the US Justice System notwithstanding — involving a plea deal that will see Assange plead guilty to one charge of conspiring to obtain and disclose US National Defence documents under the US Espionage Act at a special hearing in Saipan, before being allowed to leave for his home in Australia — this turn of events constitutes at least a small victory for justice in a time when huge injustice reigns.
Over the 12 long years of his incarceration — seven of them spent within the confines of the Ecuadorian embassy in central London, thereafter a further five years as an inmate at Belmarsh maximum security prison on the city’s outskirts — we have been delivered a hard lesson when it comes to extent of the brutality and barbarity of those who rule over us, both here in the UK and across the other side of the Atlantic in the US.
“When one man says ‘No’ Rome begins to fear.”
From the classic 1960 Hollywood movie, Spartacus, this line from Kirk Douglas — in the role of leader of the…
