‘Preconcert’ and the strange coincidences around Julian Assange

[Swagman]

by Bernard Keane
“We cannot absolutely know all these exact adaptations are the result of preconcert. But when we see a lot of framed timbers, different portions of which we know have been gotten out at different times and places and by different workmen — Stephen, Franklin, Roger and James, for instance — and when we see these timbers joined together, and see they exactly make the frame of a house or a mill … all the lengths and proportions of the different pieces exactly adapted to their respective places … in such a case, we find it impossible to not believe that Stephen and Franklin and Roger and James all understood one another from the beginning, and all worked upon a common plan or draft drawn up before the first lick was struck.” Lincoln, House Divided Speech, 1858

It’s a peculiar thing, the way numerous governments have behaved about Julian Assange.

First, there was the still-unexplained Swedish decision to reinstate the case against him after it was dropped by the chief prosecutor. Then the rejection of repeated offers from Assange to be interviewed for a second time by Swedish authorities in the UK, an innocuous procedure Swedish authorities have been happy to undertake previously, such as earlier this year when a prosecutor travelled to Serbia to interview an alleged murderer.

There’s the US Vice-President declaring Assange to be a terrorist — bearing in mind the US quite readily kills even Americans identified on White House lists as terrorists, let alone foreign nationals.

There’s the Australian Prime Minister, with no legal basis, claiming WikiLeaks had acted “illegally”, and Foreign Minister Bob Carr’s Rain Man act on the whole issue, parroting the same stale lines about how nothing is happening regarding Assange regardless of the publicly available evidence.

Then there’s the peculiar and still-unexplained moment when Jen Robinson ( Assange's British lawyer) was stopped at Heathrow before boarding a flight and told she was on an “inhibited” list, similar to the way other people with WikiLeaks links have been stopped.

http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/08/17/preconcert-and-the-strange-coincidences-around-julian-assange/

[kenny blankenship]

1. Not just the Enemy of the State

the Enemy of any state, of all states with dirty secrets...

Apparently that Lincoln fellow was quite the conspiracy theorist, but in this case no such theory is required. Although with all the banking shenanigans happening over in Britain it's easy to imagine the offers passing back and forth over Assange - there need not be any concerted effort or premeditation or whispered plan between the US, UK and AU. Julian Assange is the kind of character all governments would like to be rid of.

[yurbud]

2. he represents what we will eventually become, which will have far less room

for sociopathic financial elites.

[xchrom]

3. Du rec. Nt

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[Fumesucker]

4. Typo, Freudian slip or sly comment?

[xchrom]

5. oy...did i really dud that?

[tama]

6. The unprecedent response

by world governments and financial institutes to Wikileaks tells me that deep down they do know their capitalist empire is going down as we are speaking and their collective fear and hysteria is getting out of all proportion. People who are hysterically afraid are not famous for being able to make sound judgements and behave wisely.