Blind Justice for Julian Assange.

Blind Justice for Julian Assange.

This wholly inappropriate, non-sensical and punitive outcome is typical of what passes under the rubric of British justice.

When it deems it expedient to be magnanimous it is magnanimous and exceptions are made, yet when it runs contrary to establishment orthodoxy and in making an example of one to scare the many, it is historically vexatious, mean, petty and vicious. The history of the British empire is littered with such travesties.

One wonders whether Lady Justice is blind, deaf and dumb behind that blindfold, or whether she is wearing a hood of rendition, manacles and shackles, and that the weights and measures have been wholely rigged in favour of the seller and not the buyer, who has received no caveat in an offer that cannot be refused.

When the judiciary is politicized we have no separation of powers, because there is without doubt less justice being applied here, than there is pressure. And the procedural application of a sort of work-to-rule underscored by an injudicious technicality in contrast to the universal rights of the defendant, indeed even a common criminal would've been allowed time outside his cell.

Mr Assange sought refuge in England because he believed in the fair-play of the British justice system. How wrong he was, there has almost never been true justice in the realm because the true criminals sit atop the very mechanism that ostensibly dispenses it.

Perhaps it slipped the attention of the press and defence that a glaring conflict-of-interest arises in that the presiding judge's husband was a former Conservative MP, PPS, Minister of State for the MoD and Chief Whip no less, the very same establishment that Mr Assange's disclosures in the public interest have repeatedly held accountable and embarrassed.

In furtherance this deplorable situation of arbitrary detention denies any credibility and integrity of the part of the United Kingdom, in proferring moral judgments on the records of other nation's human rights, and that the United Kingdom too has political prisoners in all but name. And whilst I have no doubt there is precedent for the rights of Commonwealth citizens extant in historical English common-law, and I suspect the bar is aware of this too, Mr Assange's legal team have not perhaps exhausted this avenue of extenuation.

If this unacceptable situation persists, it may be that malfeasance on behalf of those who are presiding may need to be uncovered and examined. Perhaps someone needs to take the time to seriously investigate Mr Hallett's claims as to the lucrative laundering of heroin money through certain crown judicial establishments.

Perhaps when injustice is seen to be done, justices must be undone.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/julian-assange-live-updates-uk-arrest-warrant-ecuador-embassy-extradition-sweden-us-wikileaks-sexual-a8197096.html