Our website are 2 dot com thanks for tuning in this hour. Hello and welcome to cross talk were all things were considered im Peter Lavelle in london Julian Assange and youre standing trial on whether he will be extradited to the u. S. To face espionage charges the stakes could not be higher songes liberty even life is on the line freedom of speech is also on trial though you would know that from the Mainstream Media. Cross talking Julian Assange im joined by my guest in london joe lauria hes the editor in chief of Consortium News dot com we also have taylor she is an independent journalist and cofounder of action for us and were joined by alexander make your us he is a writer on Legal Affairs as well as editor in chief of the duran dot com all right cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it lets go to the the legal part of this story here well go to alexander me curious alex i mean the Mainstream Media when it does report the tria
A fair trial go ahead our or what i have to say there are certain aspects of the trial which to cause me a great deal of unease are i dont want to go into the. Details too far but firstly are i have to have genuine concerns about the physical layout of the courtroom the fact that he is kept kept behind a glass barrier hes been complaining that this is limited hes contacts with his lawyers there is incidentally case law which says the physical layout of the court room can have bearing on whether a trial is fair or not so for our all or his protests about that have been disregarded but beyond this i am becoming worried by the trend of some of the legal arguments in the very interesting really the process. Seems to have accepted i should say the crown seems have accepted the the things that he has been charged with are political offenses but the argument now seems to be that that isnt relevant at all in extraditing him because the u. K. Extradition act of 2003 doesnt say that people cant
In london Julian Assange standing trial on whether he will be extradited to the u. S. To face espionage charges the stakes could not be higher songes liberty even life is on the line freedom of speech is also on trial though you would know that from the Mainstream Media. Talking Julian Assange im joined by my guest in london joe lauria hes the editor in chief of Consortium News dot com we also have taylor she is an independent journalist and cofounder of action for us and were joined by alexander make your us he is a writer and Legal Affairs as well as editor in chief of the duran dot com all right cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it lets go to the the legal part of this story here well go to alexander me curious alex i mean the Mainstream Media when it does report the trial it seems to me theres an enormous amount of omission being played out here. In europe you have a legal mind you have a legal legal experience is he gett
Always appreciate it lets go to the the legal part of this story here well go to alexander me curious alex i mean the Mainstream Media when it does report the trial it seems to me theres an enormous amount of mission being played out here. In europe you have a legal mind you have a legal legal experience is he getting a fair trial go ahead ill. Have to say there are certain aspects of the trial which do cause me a great deal of money on dont want to go into the. Details too far but firstly i have genuine concerns about the physical layout of the courtroom the fact that he is kept kept behind a glass barrier hes been complaining that this is limited hes contacts with his lawyers there is incidentally case little which says the physical layout. To the court room can have bearing on whether a trial is fair or not so for our all or his protests about that have been disregarded but beyond this i am becoming worried by the trend of some of the legal arguments in the very interesting lee the
Scare the daylights out of the establishment. The way hes being treated proves that i mean it is sense he is probably the most dangerous man in the world and they want to punish him for this go ahead joe. It was certainly not dangerous in a violent sense and thats the way hes being treated you have to wonder why theyre doing this to him why hes in that cage why the day on monday this week he was strip searched twice and he was in 11 different times were handcuffed why are they doing this and its just who bursts its power its almost a sadistic to show that theyre in charge they can do whatever they want with him and thats a stream we disturbing as particularly the what tila just mentioned about the lawyers i mean you have the prosecuting government has eavesdropped on the defense preparations for this case by that by that Spanish Company of selling to the cia all of this that are so that would be thrown out of any case a mediately does not in any case the arguments aguas in the court th