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Resistance See other Resistance Articles Title: Julian Assange: ‘Snowden, I and Kim Dotcom all assigned same prosecutor in Virginia’ Julian Assange says US authorities have assigned the same prosecutor for him, Edward Snowden and Kim Dotcom in Virginia in an example of what he describes as “lawfare” – an attempt to universally apply American law in places where the military can’t reach. The US goes about conducting “lawfare” as much as warfare, Assange said. He believes it is no coincidence that the cases of Edward Snowden, Kim Dotcom and his own are all being tried in Alexandria, Virginia, by the same prosecutor. The WikiLeaks founder and exiled whistleblower opened up about some connections his case has with that of Edward Snowden’s and Kim Dotcom’s. The concept of lawfare, he explains, is used academically to denote one acquiring new territory not with the use of military force, but by spreading one’s own laws to those territories. This is something he sees as currently being done by the United States by employing a mixture of international institutions and agreements, as well as unquestioning cooperation from key allies who will not challenge it. Apart from the prevalence of this mechanism in international relations, the WikiLeaks founder believes there’s a clear indicator of this in his own case. “There’s a commonality I’d like to bring up, which is Edward Snowden, I and Kim Dotcom – our cases are all in Alexandria, Virginia, where we have the same prosecutor,” he told Radio New Zealand in a phone interview, while holed up in London’s Ecuadorian embassy. Assange believes that if he goes to Sweden for questioning he will be extradited to the US and face WikiLeaks-connected charges there. “It’s something quite interesting. Alexandria, Virginia, is picked in all national security cases. Now, I’m an Australian. WikiLeaks is not a US-publishing organization… so, what the hell is the United States doing trying to bring an espionage case against me? Well, you can ask yourself a similar question about what is it trying to do in relation to extraditing Kim Dotcom from New Zealand and his Hong Kong operation,” Assange said. “That jurisdiction is simply picked because it has the highest density of government employees: it’s 5 kilometers from the center of Washington DC, it has CIA, DHS, the IRS etc. within the… area, and the US brags that Alexandria, Virginia, is involved in pushing US law into more than 67 different jurisdictions. This is something in academia… called 'lawfare' – getting access to territory by pushing your laws into this territory, instead of your military. It’s a very modern and sophisticated concept, and that’s partly what the TPP is about.” Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 1.
#1. To: Ada (#0)
Wow! thanks. lawfare indeed.
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