SLfgb @ SLfgb @feddit.nl

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I think this reply says it all:

This is one of those tweets, that will come under the heading of "ratio'd"

#auspol

https://nitter.net/SEggminder/status/1707649154259001769#m

Section 71 of the Act says.

“When any person is under commitment upon a charge of an indictable offence against the laws of the Commonwealth, the Attorney-General or such other person as the Governor-General appoints in that behalf may decline to proceed further in the prosecution, and may, if the person is in custody, by warrant under his or her hand direct the discharge of the person from custody, and he or she shall be discharged accordingly.”

The power to drop the unjust prosecutions of David McBride and Richard Boyle lies with you, Mark.

iirc there was barely any opium production in Afghanistan pre-2001 under Taliban rule. It was in the following 20 years that the industry boomed and a lot of those government officials you refer to and their relatives got extremely rich from that, including President Karzai's own little brother. The US put those people in power and propped them up for over 2 decades. It's pretty clear the US decision-makers tried to eradicate poppy just as little as they tried to create peace in the region (not at all).

The sticks are used to destroy the fields, not beat people

That was my point exactly.

But invoking the spectre of "Sharia law" is just as vague as referring to "US law".

May I suggest you read the article before commenting

Armed with little more than sticks, teams of counter-narcotics brigades travel the country, cutting down Afghanistan’s poppy fields.

not in Australia

x.com

click on the link, I dare you.

When states hide crimes by making them secret, that is called a cover up. Cover-ups are illegal. Publishing documentation of crimes is not.

had he not squatted in that embassy, he’d probably be out dead by now.

there, fixed it for you.

Speaking to Sky News Australia, Assange's brother Shipton said the news showed the US was seeking to end it's "extremely controversial" prosecution.

"This indication from the Ambassador Caroline Kennedy shows that the US administration is looking for an off-ramp," Mr Shipton said.

"They've been pursuing Julian for the past 13 years for publishing evidence of corruption, for publishing evidence of war crimes and they're now deciding that there is a solution available.

"This is a sign that they don't want this playing out in American courts, particularly during an election cycle, so the US administration is really looking for an off-ramp here for what is an extremely, extremely controversial press freedom prosecution."

Asked what the outcome of a potential deal could be, Mr Shipton suggested he would expect Assange to be freed completely upon his return to Australia, saying he had already "paid" a significant price for his actions.

"Julian has been in prison for four year, he been detained one way or another for 13 years," he said.

"This is the price that he has paid, this is the price that his family has paid as well."

Are you quite sure about that?