#AssangeLetters (& Campaign Letters #4Assange)
Top websites for Letters sent to and from Belmarsh Prison & Campaign Letters written #4Assange
(1) https://classconscious.org/2019/10/13/julian-assanges-letter-from-belmarsh-to-supporters/
(2) https://independentaustralia.net/life/life-display/letters-from-belmarsh-what-julian-assange-says-we-should-do-to-save-his-life,13219
(3) https://defend.wikileaks.org/2019/05/26/julian-assange-writes-a-letter-from-belmarsh-prison/
At this time point in time Julian may get 500 letters a day acc to a fellow prisoner that refused to make money off Assanges plight ...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7113925/amp/New-pictures-jail-Julian-Assange-looking-pale-gaunt-inside-Belmarsh-prison.html?fbclid=IwAR2rlidrq8FLgsIaZP5FZwvXJ2e4Dy1dqDxvBMNQniOWdeorFELbRuFS0jU
Ruptly's Julian Assange Show demonstrates what we need most at this time is true democratic discussions where we can hear both sides. Assange has been stripped of his legal rights and human rights for the whole word to watch in plain view. A growing ground swell will work against the political prosecutors. We the people will demand a fair public hearing of the Assange Extradition Case / Procedings / Prosecution by the UK !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ8I0W9f0LY
------------------------------------------------------------------------ my letter to Julian (20 December 2019) -------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dear Julian,
Cheers from Melbourne Australia and a “Happy Xmas ( war is over)” inspired by John Lennon’s song, which we have often sung at Carols by Candlelight and which especially this year will keep you in my memory and my heart as you spend your first Christmas in prison as it looks. We live in the hope that this will be your last Christmas in prison.
A very Merry Christmas And a happy new year
Let's hope it's a good one Without any fear
And so this is Christmas For weak and for strong
For rich and the poor ones The world is so wrong
And so happy Christmas For black and for white
For yellow and red one Let's stop all the fight
I have just joined the Melbourne4Wikileaks group on line and gone to my first gathering where I met your Dad John, who was one of the speakers. He is such a gentle and loving soul and very powerful as a speaker. I realize that you are your Dad’s son, which is a tremendous compliment to both of you. I have spent many hours online getting to know you and your cause and your plight and came away 100% convinced that we need to stand with you and your cause. Thank you for your passion for truth and your courage to speak out. What a sacrifice you have made and how sad it is to be aware that while we are celebrating Christmas in freedom you are suffering in prison for the higher cause of truth and justice. These are values that are dear to our heart and the very values that are central to the teachings of Jesus who’s birth we celebrate in this season. In the last few weeks things where really picking up speed world wide and in particular here in Oz. I’m getting more optimistic that your case more than any other case will gain critical mass to not only benefit you, but also be a catalyst for the anti war movement and the civil rights movement. Your name is pretty much every day in the papers / online !
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LEST WE FORGET ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Michael Robbo's "LEST WE FORGET" is a Powerful Video Clip in defence of Julian Assange ! Michael Robbo describes how much persuasion it took for the Queen to attend to a monumental disaster and that she regretted later on very much, that she didn't respond earlier. Quote:
"I am sure that deep regret and deep shame will land on us if Julian Assange dies in prison or is extradited to the US. On that sad day this government (Australia) will have to admit. "We did virtually nothing to save him." So what can I do, to turn that around, I thought, before it IS too late? Perhaps a video letter to MPs will bring them to join Andrew Wilkie who has already mustered ten other MPs in support of Assange's release but needs many more to sway the Government." (Michael Robbo)
-------------------------------------- MY COMMENTS ------------------------------------------------
Dear Christians, Please share this with your Ministers as well. That sad day could possibly apply to you and me and the church in general. 6000 of us have joined an international prayer group. In our prayers we are with Assange and our Leaders in Politics and in Church. We are praying for the Queen, The Governor General, Prime Minister Morrison ... We trust that once all the true information is out many more hearts will soften.
WATCH Michael Rubbo @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a9BI28GRX0
Michael Rubbo's Description on Youtube:
Lest we Regret is a prediction. I am sure that deep regret and deep shame will land on us if Julian Assange dies in prison or is extradited to the US. He himself is saying that might happen, so low he is, both physically and mentally. On that sad day this government will have to admit. "We did virtually nothing to save him." So what can I do, to turn that around, I thought, before it IS too late? Perhaps a video letter to MPs will bring them to join Andrew Wilkie who has already mustered ten other MPs in support of Assange's release but needs many more to sway the Government. We know this movement is significant since the MP number is widely reported overseas even as it is also noted how Lille Australia has done for it's citizen so far.. If you agree with the Lest we Regret idea I hope you'll send this video to your own MP to start this initiative.
Top websites for Letters sent to and from Belmarsh Prison & Campaign Letters written #4Assange
(1) https://classconscious.org/2019/10/13/julian-assanges-letter-from-belmarsh-to-supporters/
(2) https://independentaustralia.net/life/life-display/letters-from-belmarsh-what-julian-assange-says-we-should-do-to-save-his-life,13219
(3) https://defend.wikileaks.org/2019/05/26/julian-assange-writes-a-letter-from-belmarsh-prison/
At this time point in time Julian may get 500 letters a day acc to a fellow prisoner that refused to make money off Assanges plight ...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7113925/amp/New-pictures-jail-Julian-Assange-looking-pale-gaunt-inside-Belmarsh-prison.html?fbclid=IwAR2rlidrq8FLgsIaZP5FZwvXJ2e4Dy1dqDxvBMNQniOWdeorFELbRuFS0jU
Ruptly's Julian Assange Show demonstrates what we need most at this time is true democratic discussions where we can hear both sides. Assange has been stripped of his legal rights and human rights for the whole word to watch in plain view. A growing ground swell will work against the political prosecutors. We the people will demand a fair public hearing of the Assange Extradition Case / Procedings / Prosecution by the UK !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ8I0W9f0LY
------------------------------------------------------------------------ my letter to Julian (20 December 2019) -------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dear Julian,
Cheers from Melbourne Australia and a “Happy Xmas ( war is over)” inspired by John Lennon’s song, which we have often sung at Carols by Candlelight and which especially this year will keep you in my memory and my heart as you spend your first Christmas in prison as it looks. We live in the hope that this will be your last Christmas in prison.
A very Merry Christmas And a happy new year
Let's hope it's a good one Without any fear
And so this is Christmas For weak and for strong
For rich and the poor ones The world is so wrong
And so happy Christmas For black and for white
For yellow and red one Let's stop all the fight
I have just joined the Melbourne4Wikileaks group on line and gone to my first gathering where I met your Dad John, who was one of the speakers. He is such a gentle and loving soul and very powerful as a speaker. I realize that you are your Dad’s son, which is a tremendous compliment to both of you. I have spent many hours online getting to know you and your cause and your plight and came away 100% convinced that we need to stand with you and your cause. Thank you for your passion for truth and your courage to speak out. What a sacrifice you have made and how sad it is to be aware that while we are celebrating Christmas in freedom you are suffering in prison for the higher cause of truth and justice. These are values that are dear to our heart and the very values that are central to the teachings of Jesus who’s birth we celebrate in this season. In the last few weeks things where really picking up speed world wide and in particular here in Oz. I’m getting more optimistic that your case more than any other case will gain critical mass to not only benefit you, but also be a catalyst for the anti war movement and the civil rights movement. Your name is pretty much every day in the papers / online !
- Our prayer group have just reached 6000
- Our Aussie petition is about to reach 230 000.
- If the anti war movement of 2003 is indicative for what is to come, then your cause will gain millions of supporters. I believe in this and I pray for this outcome
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LEST WE FORGET ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Michael Robbo's "LEST WE FORGET" is a Powerful Video Clip in defence of Julian Assange ! Michael Robbo describes how much persuasion it took for the Queen to attend to a monumental disaster and that she regretted later on very much, that she didn't respond earlier. Quote:
"I am sure that deep regret and deep shame will land on us if Julian Assange dies in prison or is extradited to the US. On that sad day this government (Australia) will have to admit. "We did virtually nothing to save him." So what can I do, to turn that around, I thought, before it IS too late? Perhaps a video letter to MPs will bring them to join Andrew Wilkie who has already mustered ten other MPs in support of Assange's release but needs many more to sway the Government." (Michael Robbo)
-------------------------------------- MY COMMENTS ------------------------------------------------
Dear Christians, Please share this with your Ministers as well. That sad day could possibly apply to you and me and the church in general. 6000 of us have joined an international prayer group. In our prayers we are with Assange and our Leaders in Politics and in Church. We are praying for the Queen, The Governor General, Prime Minister Morrison ... We trust that once all the true information is out many more hearts will soften.
WATCH Michael Rubbo @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a9BI28GRX0
Michael Rubbo's Description on Youtube:
Lest we Regret is a prediction. I am sure that deep regret and deep shame will land on us if Julian Assange dies in prison or is extradited to the US. He himself is saying that might happen, so low he is, both physically and mentally. On that sad day this government will have to admit. "We did virtually nothing to save him." So what can I do, to turn that around, I thought, before it IS too late? Perhaps a video letter to MPs will bring them to join Andrew Wilkie who has already mustered ten other MPs in support of Assange's release but needs many more to sway the Government. We know this movement is significant since the MP number is widely reported overseas even as it is also noted how Lille Australia has done for it's citizen so far.. If you agree with the Lest we Regret idea I hope you'll send this video to your own MP to start this initiative.
Assange Quotes the Bible in mapping out his philosophy on Truth & Tranparency
(this copy of a post is a few years old - date and context unknown)
Original Audio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCjiGFKFahE Duplicate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMR4HF48Nco&t=1s
All men by nature desire to know. Aristotle, when he wrote this, was saying that the thing that makes human beings different from other creatures, the thing that defines us, is the pursuit and acquisition of knowledge. This is not just to say that we, human beings, are curious creatures. It is to say that our ability to think about and to act on the world around us is bound up with our ability to know it. To be alive as a human being is to know in the same way as it is to have a heart that beats. We all understand this in mundane ways. We understand, for instance, that part of being a fully independent adult making choices about life is learning about the world around us and informing our choices with that learning.
In The Book of Proverbs, it says, "By wisdom, a house is built, and through understanding it is established; through knowledge its rooms are filled with rare and beautiful treasures". But there is something more to all of this. The very next saying in Proverbs is, "The wise are mightier than the strong". This is the earliest occurrence known to me of the now well-known idea "Knowledge is power".
To keep a person ignorant is to place them in a cage. So it follows that, the powerful, if they want to keep their power, will try to know as much about us as they can, and they will try to make sure that we know as little about them as is possible. I see this insight everywhere -- both in religious writings which promised emancipation from political repression, and in the revolutionary works promising liberation from the repressive dogmas of the church and the state. The powerful, throughout history, have understood this.
The invention of the printing press was opposed by the old powers of Europe because it spelled the end of their control of knowledge and therefore, the end of their tenure as power brokers. The Protestant Reformation was not just a religious movement, but a political struggle. The fight to liberate hoarded knowledge through translation and dissemination. Through the confessional system, the Catholic Church spied upon the lives of its congregates, while Latin Mass excluded most people who could not speak Latin from an understanding of the very system of thought that bound them.
Knowledge has always flowed upwards -- to Bishops and Kings -- not down to serfs and slaves. The principle remains the same in the present era. Documents disclosed by NSA whistle blower Edward Snowden show that governments dare to aspire, through their intelligence agencies, to a God-like knowledge about each and every one of us, but at the same time, they hide their actions behind official secrecy. As our governments and corporations know more and more about us, we know less and less about them. The policy, as always, is to channel the decisive information upwards -- never downwards.
Today, remember that it is good to seek to empower the powerless through knowledge, and to drag the machinations of the powerful into the daylight. We must be unapologetic about that most basic of humanities -- the desire to know.
The powerful would do well to remember the words of one of history's great activists as recorded in The Book of Matthew (10:26) -- "There is nothing concealed, that will not be disclosed. Or hidden, that will not be made known. What you have said in the dark, will be heard in the daylight. And what you have whispered in the ear, in the inner rooms, will be proclaimed at last -- from rooftop to rooftop."
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Assange was actually quoting text from Luke 12, rather than Matt 10 as Jesus said in Matt “WHAT I TELL YOU IN THE DARK SPEAK IN DAYLIGHT”
Meanwhile, when a crowd of many thousands had gathered, so that they were trampling on one another, Jesus began to speak first to his disciples, saying: “Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. 2 There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known. 3 What you have said in the dark will be heard in the daylight, and what you have whispered in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed from the roofs.
4 “I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do no more. 5 But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear him who, after your body has been killed, has authority to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him. 6 Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God. 7 Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.
(this copy of a post is a few years old - date and context unknown)
Original Audio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCjiGFKFahE Duplicate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMR4HF48Nco&t=1s
All men by nature desire to know. Aristotle, when he wrote this, was saying that the thing that makes human beings different from other creatures, the thing that defines us, is the pursuit and acquisition of knowledge. This is not just to say that we, human beings, are curious creatures. It is to say that our ability to think about and to act on the world around us is bound up with our ability to know it. To be alive as a human being is to know in the same way as it is to have a heart that beats. We all understand this in mundane ways. We understand, for instance, that part of being a fully independent adult making choices about life is learning about the world around us and informing our choices with that learning.
In The Book of Proverbs, it says, "By wisdom, a house is built, and through understanding it is established; through knowledge its rooms are filled with rare and beautiful treasures". But there is something more to all of this. The very next saying in Proverbs is, "The wise are mightier than the strong". This is the earliest occurrence known to me of the now well-known idea "Knowledge is power".
To keep a person ignorant is to place them in a cage. So it follows that, the powerful, if they want to keep their power, will try to know as much about us as they can, and they will try to make sure that we know as little about them as is possible. I see this insight everywhere -- both in religious writings which promised emancipation from political repression, and in the revolutionary works promising liberation from the repressive dogmas of the church and the state. The powerful, throughout history, have understood this.
The invention of the printing press was opposed by the old powers of Europe because it spelled the end of their control of knowledge and therefore, the end of their tenure as power brokers. The Protestant Reformation was not just a religious movement, but a political struggle. The fight to liberate hoarded knowledge through translation and dissemination. Through the confessional system, the Catholic Church spied upon the lives of its congregates, while Latin Mass excluded most people who could not speak Latin from an understanding of the very system of thought that bound them.
Knowledge has always flowed upwards -- to Bishops and Kings -- not down to serfs and slaves. The principle remains the same in the present era. Documents disclosed by NSA whistle blower Edward Snowden show that governments dare to aspire, through their intelligence agencies, to a God-like knowledge about each and every one of us, but at the same time, they hide their actions behind official secrecy. As our governments and corporations know more and more about us, we know less and less about them. The policy, as always, is to channel the decisive information upwards -- never downwards.
Today, remember that it is good to seek to empower the powerless through knowledge, and to drag the machinations of the powerful into the daylight. We must be unapologetic about that most basic of humanities -- the desire to know.
The powerful would do well to remember the words of one of history's great activists as recorded in The Book of Matthew (10:26) -- "There is nothing concealed, that will not be disclosed. Or hidden, that will not be made known. What you have said in the dark, will be heard in the daylight. And what you have whispered in the ear, in the inner rooms, will be proclaimed at last -- from rooftop to rooftop."
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Note1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Assange was actually quoting text from Luke 12, rather than Matt 10 as Jesus said in Matt “WHAT I TELL YOU IN THE DARK SPEAK IN DAYLIGHT”
Meanwhile, when a crowd of many thousands had gathered, so that they were trampling on one another, Jesus began to speak first to his disciples, saying: “Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. 2 There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known. 3 What you have said in the dark will be heard in the daylight, and what you have whispered in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed from the roofs.
4 “I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do no more. 5 But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear him who, after your body has been killed, has authority to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him. 6 Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God. 7 Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.
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