Hi All,
I have pasted the script from Petition Notice 40, delivered to all 226 Australian parliamentarians and will be delivered to all USA & British Parliamentarian. I can not upload the file, so I past in the script.
The Full Document is available and pinned to my Twitter account @PhillipAdams64
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Free Julian Assange Petition: Notice 40
Over 232,001 signatories as at Dec. 20, 2019
Petition To: The Hon. Marise Payne, Senator
Minister for Foreign Affairs
Petition To: The Hon. Scott Morrison, MP
Prime Minister of Australia
Petition To: All Hon.Senators & MP's Government of Australia
Notice To: The President President of the USA
Notice To: All elected USA Government Congressional Rep.’s & USA Senators
Notice To: The Hon. Boris Johnson, MP Prime Minister of Britain
Notice To: All Members to the British Government House of Commons & House of Lords
With Exceptional Notice To: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Royal Monarch to the Commonwealth of Nations
Dear Parliamentarians
According to the Australian Parliament’s official site and as at Dec. 19, 2019 “The right to petition Federal Parliament has been one of the rights of citizens since federation, and it is the only way an individual can directly place grievances before the Parliament.” I am exercising that right.
This petition was successfully tabled in the parliament of Australia on Nov. 12, 2019. This petition is now the 4th largest petition to be successfully tabled in the history of the Australian Parliament and continues to grow. Over 232,000 Signatories want to Bring Julian Assange Home. This petition facilitates a legitimate pathway for this to happen with minimal disruption to everyone’s lives.
By carefully following these petitioned demands grievances will be resolved.
This petition demands
No USA Extradition of Julian Assange.
Immediately after the USA Extradition Hearing “Feb. 25 – 1 March. Julian Assange to walk out at least on bail.
Freedom for Julian Assange
The Australian government is hereby instructed that they are to facilitate the providing of a bail application via consular presentations on behalf of Julian Assange so that after the Feb. 25 - March 1 hearing, he may walk out regardless. These instructions come from signatory John Shipton (Julian’s father Dec. 18, 2019). If Julian Assange is not absolutely allowed to walk out as a free man, then bail must be allowed, for his wellbeing as he has done nothing wrong.
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The Australian Government are totally within their power to secure bail for Julian Assange after the Feb. 25 – Mar. 1 hearing. The Australian Government and Consular administrative services are now being instructed to carry forth this requirement and safety net for the wellbeing of Julian Assange. We want him at very least bailed after the Feb. 25 – Mar. 1 USA extradition hearing. We want him out and living on the road to recovery, His health and wellbeing first and foremost. Get bail organised Now.
In a democracy journalists and publishers that inform in the public interest should not be tortured, assassinated and or permanently silenced. The exposure by journalists of systemic government criminality that include alleged war crimes, alleged crimes against humanity, alleged crimes of aggression should not result in their persecution by the very alleged criminal entity/s their publications exposed. That is akin to a Mafia styled hit squad rather than government business by ethical standards.
The torturing of Julian Assange for political gain is not a good look. Thank God the people have this Parliamentary approved/tabled/legitimate and historically large petitioned pathway in order to address this issue in a peaceful and harmonious “Manner”. This is Notice 40. Confirmations of delivery notifications have been received from 39 prior Notice deliveries to parliamentarians via official means. Totalling over 8,588 individual emails “Petition Notice” deliveries across the Australian parliament of fact filled information to help the upholders of democratic principals make the right decisions.
If this travesty of a USA Extradition is left to run its criminal pathway it will result in the ultimate destruction of democracy. That is the seriousness that we take this issue.
We consider it revolutionary in “Matter”.
We have parliamentary committees now in many governments around the world, that agree and stand together with us. If we allow this type of persecution of journalists, then we are doomed. History proves this over and over again. We just can not start allowing the persecution of journalists that exposed governmental criminality and war crimes. We can not allow criminally corrupted government agencies to arbitrarily torture, before permanently silencing the journalists that exposed their crimes. Sorry No.
The Morrison government is instructed to follow Liberal Party policy procedure where in extenuating circumstances the Prime Minister will intervene and make high level representations to their Ministerial counterparts in jurisdictions where an Australian’s human rights are being violated. This standard procedure was witnessed in the intervention by the then LNP Prime Minister John Howard after Barnaby Joyce’s raising of the matter concerning “Habeas Corpus” in relation to David Hicks. The same occurred with the LNP Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull intervening at the March 2018 ASEAN meeting when he and his team raised the matter of James Ricketson with Hun Sen of Cambodia (Ricketson had been detained on “Espionage” charges). So to be clear it is standard practice and procedure that an Australian LNP Prime Minister directly intervenes in situations of exceptional circumstance as was the case with David Hicks, James Ricketson and is the case with Julian Assange.
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The cases of both Hicks and Ricketson show similarities to the Assange case and as such standard procedure includes the intervention by the Prime Minister and or Foreign Minister. This would better secure the return of freedom and human rights of an Australian Citizen who has been arbitrarily detained and psychologically tortured as a political prisoner. Why shouldn’t Julian Assange receive the same level of involvement by the Prime Minister and or Foreign Minister as others have received in similar situations.
“Julian Assange has suffered enough. It's time to end this geopolitical madness. The man's an Australian. He's not an American. He wasn't in the US when he spoke out about war crimes. Put simply, he must be allowed to return to Australia.” Andrew Wilkie MP & Co Chair of the “Bring Assange Home” Australian parliamentary group.
https://twitter.com/WilkieMP/status/1184253581660016640?s=20
Julian Assange is an Australian citizen and journalist who is currently a political prisoner in London. He is facing extradition to the USA to face 175 years imprisonment and possible execution for publishing news material that was in the public interest. The information contained in his publications were not sourced by him, but rather were delivered to him by whistleblowers. Whistleblower sourced information is the usual occupational practice of an investigative journalist in a functioning democracy. This case highlights clear human rights abuses of Julian Assange, serious perversions of justice and a direct attack on the very fabric of democracy across western democracies.
Further, in light of the concerning deterioration of Julian Assange’s state of health, politicians who may be perceived as “somewhat” responsible should seriously consider how citizens would react if Julian Assange was to die in prison or be viewed shuffling in shackles in an orange fashioned Guantanamo torture jumpsuit. Responsible politicians would be best advised to deal with this matter via this legal and peaceful petitioned action and this petition provides that platform for praise and endorsement. Responsible politicians doing the right thing and winning political points from 92% of Australians as per (60 Minutes Australia) polling that want the Australian Government to intervene and Bring Assange Home.
We agree nobody is above the law. As Jeremy Hunt MP wished we will “stand together to make it an international taboo, of the highest order to murder, arrest or detain journalists just for doing their job”. (Jeremy Hunt April 6, 2019).
Yours Faithfully,
Phillip Adams
Petitioner and on behalf of over 232,001 signatories
Free Julian Assange, before it’s too late. Petition link click to sign: http://chng.it/sM4nTkMR
UN Special Rapporteur on Torture: Mr Nils Melzer Calls for Julian Assange to be freed, citing “Psychological Torture”. Source; Democracy Now: https://youtu.be/ErW1taJEPrs