Binoy Kampmark, Waiting for the Old Bailey: Julian Assange and Britain’s Judicial Establishment, OffGuardian, Tue 1 Sep 2020:
Very little is known about Baraitser in the public domain, though the investigative outfit Declassified UK has been busy with some dedicated digging. […] Undeterred, Declassified persevered and found 24 extradition cases over which Baraitser presided between November 2015 and May 2019 mining Factiva and Westlaw. The results show an overly keen enthusiasm for extradition.
"Of these 24 cases, Baraitser ordered the extradition of 23 of the defendants, a 96% extradition record from publicly available evidence.”
One of Baraitser’s rulings was overturned on appeal, with the appellate court attaching “considerable weight to the likely impact of extradition upon the health and wellbeing of the defendant’s wife” , who would be “left with very little support.” A scintilla of hope, perhaps, is in the offing.
Is it the case, do you think, that being an extradition judge turns regular people into sociopathic monsters, or rather that sociopathic monsters are naturally attracted to such jobs?
I’m nervous that Assange just simply won’t survive this process…
The way she’s been bullying Julian, she’s obviously one of the ukstate’s ideologically-deranged attack dogs, specially set on for the purpose of rail-roading him into the US gulag system, there to be quietly tortured and neglected to death.
Hurry on the rapid and chaotic collapse of USAmerica and all its foetid works. If extradition can be delayed until the current near-civil-war finally blows up into full-scale chaos in the US, accelerating the collapse of the Anglozionist empire, Julian may yet be rescued. Weirdly, it’s only that grand upheaval, and the coming to power of an unexpected government in Britain which it could precipitate (let’s daydream The Workers Party into that position!), that might save him. Clearly, we can have zero confidence in the probity of the English legal system.
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