Hey there, it's good to be back.

Oh, good man.

Good to have you here.

So, Assam speaks.

The man earned his vacation.

He's been back in Australia for remind me how long now, and,

but he gave a talk, what did he tell him?

Three months a little more than three months since his release and what brought him out of his family time I suppose is the fact that the

Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly as they call it it's known as

Pace for for short so if I start saying Pace that's what I'm referring to that

this Assembly in Europe, these are all European Union states

that are part of so they have parliamentarians from those countries make up this body and they're supposed to be like norm setting

protectors of human rights of course they aren't always and because of the

deference that Europe often shows to the United States that tend to look the other way

when war crimes and torture and other things like that happen, which did come up in Julian Assange's testimony, but this was his opportunity to go before them and speak in support of a resolution that was before the parliamentarians to declare

him a political prisoner. Now he's free, but they didn't know when they were considering this resolution that he was going to be

freed. They had no idea that when they began to do this work to support him, there was a part

there's a parliamentarian from Iceland who was in the

spearheaded this and they didn't know that he was going to be freed so now there

was a opportunity for him to go before these parliamentarians and

speak for the first time.

And if you thought in the back of your head that everything he went through, his brain is now scrambled,

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