I took up a suggestion by Craig Murray to register as a virtual observer of the court case currently underway regarding Julian Assange’s latest and possibly last throw of the appeal dice against his extradition to the US. The link to the Royal Courts of Justice—when it was finally made to work—was useless. The audio was possibly something that had been installed in the 1950s, and the defence lawyer’s words sounded as if they had been delivered from the bottom of a drain pipe, with suitable extraneous sounds which could have been the coughing and sneezing of the secret state blithely listening in. I tried again this morning, and thought it had improved, but it turned out that the mikes on the judges’ bench seemed to be the only ones capable of picking up the entirety of what was being said (by them). According to Murray (who was in court and has written a first class account of the first day’s proceedings on his website) the courtroom in use was one of the smallest in the complex. One wonders what the larger courtrooms were being used for—certainly nothing with the same level of public interest. Along with the rubbish virtual experience, one might come away with the impression that the state, through little technical ploys has sought to diminish the significance of the hearing. Such a thought of course amounts to a conspiracy theory distinguished and to be dismissed chiefly by its silly pettiness. Nobody could imagine such low behaviour in our justice system. The case continues.
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