You Are All Suspects Now. What Are You Going to Do About It?

[Peter Lemkin]

Especially in the case of Babar Ahmad the scandal is (in my view) the complete sellout of any European law to the Americans. Babar Ahmad ran a website with questionable content. OK. He was never charged for that (or for anything else) by the British law system, which normally should be perfectly capable of dealing with suspected supporters of terrorism. He is physically abused and put into jail for 8 years, without charge, by the British law system. Nobody can call that "justice", whatever you may think about the suspect or his alleged deeds. And on top of that he is now extradited to the US, without any evidence presented that could have lead to a prosecution in Britain. Just on the base of an extradition law that is a crime in itself, in the view of many.
The scandal in all this lies more in the shocking nakedness of the British law system than in the arrogant world police attitude of the US, which is well known for a long time.
If it can happen in Britain, it can happen anywhere. Today a US president decides for every person on this planet, if they will live or die, and a US attorney decides, if they will travel to the US or not.

i agree totally with your assessment. I'm sure J. Assange and his legal team have noted all this with interest - as will have many others. It was however, let us not forget, the false-flag op of 911 and the subsequent worldwide war of [on] terror that has created this lawlessness and obsequiousness on the part of most governments and their legal systems. Now, from the moment one is accused one can at times expect imprisonment for years, sometimes rendition and torture, inhuman treatment of various sorts, lack of international legal protections and ultimately a monkey trial which are looking increasingly like the trials that went on during the Third Reich....we are not yet there...but headed in that direction. Worst of all, there seems to be no great outcry anywhere. As they say, "911 changed everything".