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What is happening to Assange right now? It can only be understood as a desire by British and
American authorities to see him die rather than to make his case in court. That is my belief.
That's the speculation if you like. That's just the judgment. It's outrageous. It is criminal the way
he is being treated. Many jurists and many doctors in Britain have signed petitions exactly to
that effect that for medical reasons, along with that Alice keeps mentioning. He should be
released or put in totally different offices. And in general, that he is, as I say, being tortured right
now and for, as Alice said, for informing us of information we had a right to know, needed to
know and has made a difference. So as each of them said, Chelsea said that she was,
unfortunately, that she was prepared to go to prison for life or even be killed to get this
information out. And if it wasn't acted on, she would despair of the human species. Snowden
said, who, by the way, Julian was critical in getting Snowden out of Hong Kong and with his
assistant, his aide, Sarah Harrison, who accompanied him on his trip and helped him in Russia,
get exiled in Russia, and Julian, I think, hasn't gotten the credit that he deserves for that on
Snowden. But Snowden said there are things worth dying for. Well, that's true. And these
people should not have to die for what they did, and it's up to us to help keep that from
happening.
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