“On 15 June 2012, Julian Assange understands that
he’s finished . He’s in London. The week after that, British officers will arrest him and take him to Stockholm, where he will not be picked up by police officers of Her Majesty the Queen of Sweden, but by
two CIA operatives, and a United States diplomat, who will act in accordance with formal agreements between the two countries and will make use of the “right to the military option when a war has been declared” by claiming that Assange “actively intervened” in the NATO-Iraq conflict while the war was going on. They will take him straight to the USA, to Texas, where he will be subjected to a criminal trial for terrorist activities and they will be asking that he should be given the death penalty on the basis of the
Patriot Act Law. He consults his group, they make the right choice after three days of a frantic exchange of information all over the planet: Take the underground and walk into the Embassy of Ecuador. Stay there.” At 9 am on 19 June he enters the
Embassy of Ecuador. No news. No one knows. His group starts negotiating with British police in London, with the Swedes in Stockholm and with American diplomats in Rio de Janeiro. They reach an agreement: “Let’s avoid the risk of attacks and we’ll wait until after the Olympics. On 13 August he can go to South America. We’ll do everything silently, as long as everyone keeps quiet.” His people accept, but at the same time they don’t trust the Anglo-Americans. They get working and they pull off two fabulous stunts. The first on 3 August. The second on 4 August. On 3 August, earlier than the end of the 16 months deadline, the president of the Republic of Argentina,
Cristina Kirchner went to the office of the IMF in Manhattan with her Minister of the Economy and the Ecuadorian Minister of Foreign Affairs as a representative of “Alba” (Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America), the economic union of Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela.
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Wikileaks is not to be read as gossip. There are people who are even risking their lives to put up information from an anonymous internet point in Canberra, Bogotà or Saint Tropez. These anonymous people deserve our respect. And they are reminding us that in the future we cannot say “but we didn’t know”. Today, anyone who wants to know, is well provided for. You just have to go looking. If then, with this “Knowledge”, internauts do nothing, it’s their choice. That can be translated as: as long as we don’t get rid of this filthy political class that represents us badly, chattering will come to nothing. Because by now, we all know how things are. Otherwise, it’s not possible to complain or to be surprised that no one had ever talked about these things before: about Ecuador, about Rafael Correa, about what’s happening in South America, about the furious battle going on between the Presidents of Argentina and Brazil on the one hand and
Christine Lagarde and Ms Merkel on the other. Thus, why get surprised that the British want to invade a foreign Embassy? That has never happened - not even in the hottest moments of the so-called Cold War. As they say in South America when someone asks “but what’s it like in Europe, what’s happening there?” And everywhere the response is “in Europe they’re asleep. They don’t know that life exists.” "
Sergio Di Cori Modigliani, writer and blogger
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