Julian Assange is facing the possibility of being extradited to the United States for questioning over his links to the CIA, MI6 and the Ministry of Defence. Russell Brand explains why this is such a bad idea, and why we should all be worried about the outcome of the hearing, which is being presided over by a member of the establishment, and who has connections to the organisations that have been affected by the disclosures made by Julian Assange and his organisation, and the people who have access to top-secret information that should be accessible to the public, but aren't. If you want to support our content, click the link in the description. We make additional content every week for our supporters, and we are committed to opposing the establishment at this pivotal time. Remember, there s an episode every single day, 7 days, to educate and elevate our consciousness together. Stay free, and enjoy the episode. - Russell Brand No, Here's the Fucking News. Enjoy this episode of Stay Free with Russell Brand - Remember there's an episode EVERY single day to elevate your consciousness together! To join our FB group, click here. To find a list of our sponsors and show your support, go to bit.ly/AwakeningWonders. You can get 10% off our newest ad-free version of our new single-issue book, Stay Free With Russell Brand: Stay Free, and support us on our new podcast Stay Free! We'll be delivering a detailed breakdown of current topics that the mainstream media should be covering in the mainstream press and much more! Stay free! - stay free, stay free! - Thank you, Russell Brand. . Thank you for supporting the work of Russell Brand, and thanks for joining us, A voyage to truth and freedom, - I pray that Julian Assange will be joining us on the voyage to Truth and Freedom, a voyage to freedom, A voyage I pray he will join us on Truth and FREEDOM, - A voyage of truth and liberty, by Russell Brand . - by by Jordan Peterson, Jr, Jr. by Sam Harris, Sam Harris and Gabor Mate, Jr., Vadim Chaudhuri, Sr. and Raffk Sr., Sam Harris & V Vandana Shiva, and many more. Now enjoy this episode, R.K Jr., Jr., Sr. by Vadimir Vankov,
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00:01:10.000Indeed, everything around us demonstrates that we are at a crucial moment.
00:01:14.000Even the current hearing that Julian Assange is having to fight for the right to have an appeal against his extradition.
00:01:21.000Look at the layers before Julian Assange will get anything approaching justice.
00:01:25.000He's currently, as you know I'm sure, in Belmarsh without trial and one of the two judges that will be hearing the case previously represented MI6 and the Ministry of Defence Who was both exposed by WikiLeaks that Julian Assange obviously set up.
00:01:41.000So what are the chances of Julian Assange getting a fair trial when one of the judges has explicit connections to organisations negatively affected by WikiLeaks?
00:01:51.000If you continue to disrupt the court in this way, I will have to cite you for contempt.
00:01:59.000Just to give you a sort of broad open take, Julian Assange is a key pivotal anti-establishment figure.
00:02:05.000The establishment literally is an immersive entity.
00:02:08.000To get any kind of fair trial, Julian Assange shouldn't be having this hearing in the UK or the US or the anglophonic world.
00:02:15.000He'd have to go to somewhere like Ecuador or Peru or Switzerland or Iceland or something because the establishment by its nature controls institutions.
00:02:24.000That's part of what Julian Assange exposed.
00:02:27.000Justice and our values and principles as conveyed to us through the legacy media is a kind of veil, a kind of insidious fog that masks reality and distracts us from deeper truths.
00:02:36.000Julian Assange did incredible work in revealing to us the nature of hypocrisy and corruption when it comes to foreign wars, when it comes to corporate corruption and now Julian Assange is having a hearing The hearing is being presided over by, of course, a member of the establishment.
00:02:49.000Let's have a look at the difficulties that Julian Assange faces and the ridiculousness of a hearing being presided over by an establishment figure that's been personally affected almost at every turn, whose career is almost defined by not liking Julian Assange, being the person that presides over the case.
00:03:06.000One of the two High Court judges who will rule on Julian Assange's bid to stop his extradition to the US represented the UK's Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, and the Ministry of Defence.
00:03:16.000Now, by the time you're watching this, the hearing may have already concluded that Julian Assange doesn't have the right to appeal, or by some miracle, that he does have the right to appeal, because I can turn these things around.
00:03:25.000Really quickly, but they more likely will take an incredible amount of time to take all the air out of it What I'd like you to pay attention to is the astonishing goal of the establishment that doesn't conceal that Judge Jeremy Johnson and Dame Victoria Sharpe at almost every turn have connections to the very kind of incidents and stories that WikiLeaks and Assange in particular revealed Their hubris is so complete that they can sort of publicly declare that they've represented MI6, they've represented the police, they've represented the government, they have special clearance.
00:03:54.000And in a way what this shows you is the nature of the establishment.
00:03:57.000Not only is the establishment by its nature corrupt and self-preserving, but also it doesn't really fear that you have any power to impede it, interrupt it, or even challenge it.
00:04:08.000Otherwise they would surely keep the kind of things we're about to reveal secret.
00:04:12.000Just this Jeremy Johnson, which is a silly name, has also been a specially vetted barrister cleared by the UK authorities to access top secret information.
00:04:21.000When people talk about systemic corruption, I suppose what's in fact being discussed is the impossibility of challenging certain structures and certain systems.
00:04:29.000That they're so congealed and concealed and controlled that even to penetrate them is a ridiculous and almost inconceivable task.
00:04:37.000If you have that kind of special clearance, if you've been to those schools and universities, if you've represented MI6 and the Ministry of Defence, how will you impartially view a figure like Julian Assange, who has, at every turn, challenged establishment authority, exposed corruption in war, exposed war crimes?
00:04:54.000He's not going to be able to go, no, thinking about this, we've actually been wrong.
00:04:57.000This is a figure that's emerging from the establishment to evaluate the interests of the establishment.
00:05:02.000What's being revealed by the Assange case is the intractability of the establishment and the impossibility of true justice within it.
00:05:12.000Johnson will sit with Dame Victoria Sharp.
00:05:37.000His persecution by the US authorities has been at the behest of Washington's intelligence and security services, with whom the UK has deep relations.
00:05:46.000Some of their deep relations, as Edward Snowden revealed, is the sharing of private data between Five Eyes countries that includes the UK and US, Which is sort of illegal, certainly against the principles of justice and clarity and transparency that they espouse.
00:06:01.000How is the exposure of crime being treated as criminality?
00:06:05.000Assange's journalistic career has been marked by exposing the dirty secrets of the US and UK national security establishments.
00:06:12.000He now faces a judge who has acted for and received security clearance from some of those state agencies.
00:06:19.000As with previous judges who have ruled on Assange's case, this raises concerns about institutional conflicts of interest.
00:06:25.000They're not conflicts of interest, it's the mechanic of the system.
00:06:29.000As they say, it's not a bug, it's a feature.
00:06:31.000How can he ever be the recipient of justice?
00:06:34.000When the system itself functions in order to prevent that, it would mean the system breaking apart.
00:06:41.000If you wanted to repay the true cost of imperialism, you'd have to dismantle the royal family, the nation.
00:06:46.000It's one of those issues that shows you the problem with the institutions themselves.
00:06:50.000That's why we are fascinated with this case, because you can't have justice for Julian Assange without a true reckoning for the deep state.
00:07:18.000The laws that have been passed in Canada.
00:07:20.000The online safety bill in this country, which of course is presented to us.
00:07:23.000We're just Trying to protect children.
00:07:24.000How are you going to protect children?
00:07:25.000By controlling the information you have access to.
00:07:28.000What Julian Assange did is he punctured that facade, gave us a bunch of information so we could decide for ourselves whether or not we wanted to support foreign wars.
00:07:37.000Many people concluded that they didn't want to support foreign wars and Julian Assange went to jail for a very long time.
00:07:43.000Exactly how much Johnson has been paid for his work for government departments is not clear.
00:07:48.000Records show he was paid twice by the government legal department for his services in 2018.
00:08:46.000That's what this new movement is about.
00:08:48.000It's about recognising these institutions are unreliable, whether it's the media, the judiciary, or parliamentary or congressional politics.
00:08:55.000There's such a requirement for reckoning that a hearing like this can only really be theatre.
00:09:00.000Justice Johnson became a deputy High Court judge in 2016 and a full judge in 2019.
00:09:05.000His biography states he has been often acting in cases involving the police and government department.
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00:10:49.000Johnson worked alongside Robin Tam QC, previously described by legal directories as a barrister who does an enormous amount of often sensitive work for the UK government.
00:11:00.000If you think about it, what your government's supposed to be is, you pay for them out of your taxes, you vote for them as your democratic right, and then they've got all this sensitive information that you're not allowed access to, presumably to protect you, that's what's declared in order to protect you, but I think we're all starting to realise that it's in order to control you.
00:11:18.000What is sensitive is, If everyone knew this information, we'd have mass disobedience on our hands, so you better control that information.
00:11:26.000And if anyone ever exposes it, do what you have to do to stop them and put them behind bars.
00:11:47.000Presumably what those concerns were from MI6 was that we'd be so excited and so happy about the revelations in that inquest of the death of Diana and Dodi that we'd all just go crazy in celebrating our love for the nation, that we'd just like, let's give these people more power, let's give them more ability to censor us.
00:12:03.000That inquest and those concerns were about a surprise party for your birthday and you've ruined it!
00:12:10.000He reportedly received a brief from MI6 in advance of the inquest and was tasked with providing such assistance as the coroner may require.
00:12:38.000Johnson has also represented the UK Ministry of Defence on at least two occasions.
00:12:43.000I mean, if ever there was anyone that's going to have a grudge against Julian Assange, it's the person who's represented the Ministry of Defence and MO6.
00:12:48.000It also says here, in 1996, you lost to Julian Assange in a fun run.
00:12:52.000Yes, I'm still pretty pissed off about that.
00:12:54.000In 2013, he acted for the department during the high-profile Al-Suaidi inquiry, which looked into allegations that British soldiers torture and unlawfully killed Iraqi prisoners in 2004.
00:13:05.000The MOD's lawyers said the Iraqi allegations were a product of lies and that those making the claims were guilty of criminal conspiracy.
00:13:12.000Well, many of the WikiLeaks revelations included improper conduct by military personnel, the illegal bombing of territories in the Middle East, torture and unusual practices by service personnel.
00:13:23.000I mean, we can get into the morality of individual soldiers when they are wearing their fatigues and charged by their nation.
00:13:30.000But institutional corruption and the concealment of that is a very interesting subject.
00:13:35.000And right in the wheelhouse of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, Judge Jeremy Johnson literally defended those allegations.
00:13:42.000You couldn't have someone that has more vested interests.
00:13:45.000Jeremy Johnson literally has a long history of defending the establishment from the type of revelations that WikiLeaks made.
00:13:53.000It's ridiculous that you would appoint someone with so many intrinsic connections to Julian Assange and these types of stories, unless what you wanted was for the appeal process to falter and be halted.
00:14:03.000Johnson argued there was compelling and extensive independent forensic evidence to refute the case.
00:14:09.000The five-year inquiry, which cost around 25 million pounds, which you paid for, exonerated the British troops.
00:14:15.000Johnson was appointed by the Attorney General to be a special advocate in around 2007, declassified understands.
00:14:22.000These are specially vetted barristers who act for the purpose of hearing secret evidence in a closed court.
00:14:27.000Special advocates must undergo and obtain developed vetting, the highest level of HM government security clearance prior to their appointment, government guidance state.
00:14:36.000The more you learn about Justice Jeremy Johnson, the more he begins to sound a bit like Pulp Fiction's Winston Wolfe.
00:14:45.000This is the person you call in when the establishment has a problem with a dissident, or when the establishment is about to be exposed as being incredibly corrupt.
00:14:59.000If we don't call on him now, we're in serious trouble.
00:15:02.000That's the person that will be sitting and going, hmm Julian Assange, should we just Let him loose and send a message to other independent journalists that you're free to analyse establishment activity and corruption and the influence of corporations over the government and the activities of the deep state and the level of spying on ordinary citizens and the exploitation of military personnel that drives them to commit crimes on behalf of their nation.
00:15:28.000Or should we put him in prison for 175 years and send a clear message to anyone who's thinking of attacking the establishment that this is what happens to you.
00:15:47.000Developed vetting is required for individuals having frequent and uncontrolled access to top-secret assets or require any access to top-secret codeword material.
00:15:57.000In 2016, Johnson acted as a special advocate in the case of Abdel Hakim Belhage, a Libyan national who accused the UK government and MI6 of participating in kidnapping him and his pregnant wife Fatima Bouchard.
00:16:10.000The UK government later apologized for its actions that contributed to Belhage and Bouchard's rendition, detention and torture.
00:16:17.000We'd like to apologise for kidnapping you and torturing you and your pregnant wife as well.
00:16:23.000And I hope you'll accept this apology on behalf of the establishment and hopefully add an end to the matter.
00:16:30.000Julian Assange has been doing some journalism.
00:16:32.000Put him in prison for longer than a person can live for!
00:16:34.000WikiLeaks has published sensitive documents on the US and Britain's use of extraordinary rendition during the War on Terror.
00:16:41.000So once again, exactly the type of things that WikiLeaks exposed.
00:16:45.000It's ridiculous, you couldn't have someone more likely to view this from a pejorative and prejudiced perspective.
00:16:51.000It's like having Jackie Onassis adjudicate on the trial of Lee Harvey Oswald.
00:16:55.000Well actually, thinking about it, maybe the CIA- SHUT UP!
00:16:58.000The lead judge in Assange's extradition case at the High Court is Dame Victoria Sharpe, the president of the King's Bench division, who was appointed in 2019 by then Prime Minister Theresa May.
00:17:09.000Declassified has shown that Sharpe has family links to the Conservative Party.
00:17:13.000I mean, of course, what is the establishment?
00:17:14.000It's not going to be that you have High Court judges and politicians at all.
00:17:42.000These are the people that have sort of most To lose!
00:17:46.000That's very similar to Edward Snowden's revelations about NSA data capturing the Five Eyes Nation, sharing and bulk capturing our information, storing it to use at a later date should you ever become a dissident or enemy of the state.
00:17:59.000To have people with such strong affiliations and affinity preside over this case is ridiculous.
00:18:06.000It's like having Darth Vader and Voldemort presiding over a case that involved Harry Potter and Luke Skywalker stealing lightsabers.
00:18:14.000UK approval for Assange's extradition to the US, which flows from Washington's attempt to punish and silence Assange, has been given by successive Home Secretaries.
00:18:22.000Johnson represented the Home Office in 2012 in a case relating to an asylum claim by an immigrant who had previously been subject to torture in Angola.
00:18:30.000The Home Secretary at this time was Theresa May, who as Prime Minister would authorise the operation to seize Assange from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London in 2019.
00:18:41.000In a sense, what's being tried here is the system itself.
00:18:45.000And the system can't find the system itself not guilty.
00:18:48.000It'll be like some kind of reverse Skynet, where it'd have to go, hold on a minute, everything we've been doing for the last 20 years is totally corrupt.
00:18:56.000Now, because this decision may already have been made, you might be watching this and already know that Assange has been denied the right to appeal.
00:19:03.000Or perhaps by some miracle, he's been granted the right to an appeal.
00:19:06.000But that would lead me to conclude that that will be the point in which the appeal leads to.
00:19:11.000Oh yeah, we are going to extradite him.
00:19:13.000Because what the case shows is that what poses for government is essentially a kind of theatre that masks Corruption.
00:19:20.000What poses for media is essentially a propaganda messaging system that amplifies the interests of the powerful.
00:19:26.000What poses as a deep state that's meant to protect our interests and save us from the threat of extraterrestrial or at least international malice is at least in significant part a deep state apparatus for the control of the domestic population.
00:19:40.000How can a hearing Ultimately say Julian Assange is really just a journalist and a hero.
00:19:46.000It's ridiculous that we'd extradite him.
00:19:47.000Let him go back to Australia or to some neutral territory where he can live out the rest of his life and carry on with his good work exposing corruption.
00:19:54.000Because it wouldn't just be releasing Assange, it would be recognizing the depth of its own corruption.
00:19:59.000And how can it do that without dismantling itself live in those courts?
00:20:03.000Johnson has also acted for the Metropolitan Police in a number of controversial cases regarding political policing and alleged illegal surveillance.
00:20:10.000The Met would go on to lead Operation Pelican, the secret scheme to seize Assange from his asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy.
00:20:17.000I went to visit Julian Assange when he was in that embassy, which in itself was a peculiar concoction.
00:20:24.000The idea that that was a space in which he was free from the clutches of apparent justice and imperialist interests.
00:20:32.000What's peculiar about all of this is that at every point where you assess the career of Justice Jeremy Johnson and to a degree Dame Victoria Sharpe, you see, and what else would you see, attachment and affinity with establishment interests.
00:20:47.000They are in attendance by virtue of the fact that they are part of the establishment.
00:20:51.000They are complicit in the events and actions that have led to Julian Assange being in this position.
00:20:57.000So how can they objectively assess a situation that they either tangentially or directly created?
00:21:03.000Johnson also represented West Midlands Police in the inquest over the Healesborough football stadium disaster and the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings.
00:21:11.000The latter resulted in six men being wrongfully jailed for killing 21 people by a bomb planted by the IRA.
00:21:17.000The Hillsborough football disaster and the jailing of the Birmingham Six in British cultural history represent two of the great stains on the establishment.
00:21:27.000The wrongful arrest, conviction and imprisonment of innocent people for the crime of being From Ireland and the denial and accusation of wrongdoing of people for the crime of being football fans.
00:21:40.000In a way, what this case reveals is the establishment is an edifice which protects the powerful from ordinary people like us.
00:21:49.000And you might say, well, you've got that leather jacket on and you're famous.
00:21:51.000Well, believe me, I'm on your side of the line.
00:21:56.000There are a set of interests that will be protected at all costs.
00:22:00.000Julian Assange's crime was to expose those interests.
00:22:03.000The idea that a nation like ours or a nation like the United States could give a fair hearing to a candidate, a character like Julian Assange, is ridiculous because it would represent the unraveling of their entire raison d'etre.
00:22:16.000It would represent a kind of mea culpa of such magnitude that the day after that hearing you'd have to say, well we're gonna have to be honest, Elections don't work either.
00:22:25.000We're gonna have to be honest, our entire parliamentary system is a sham.
00:22:28.000We're gonna have to be honest, the ascent of globalism has meant that ordinary people don't have any real power in their own countries.
00:22:33.000And the only power you do have, actually, is the power to comply.
00:22:37.000And if you don't comply, then you will be in serious trouble.
00:22:40.000And the crime that Julian Assange committed was the crime of non-compliance.
00:22:47.000That's why it's likely this hearing will fail.
00:22:49.000That's why it's likely he'll be extradited.
00:22:51.000And that's why it's likely that unless we do something about it, which means unprecedented non-compliance, Julian Assange will be punished, not for a crime, but for exposing crime.
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