#247: Julian Assange, The Espionage Act, Julian's Defense, and Journalistic Freedom in 2021 with Gabriel Shipton

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Marty Bent

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4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Gabriel Shipton, brother of Julian Assange, to discuss:

- Julian's ongoing trial

- How the US Government is wrongfully persecuting Julian

- The bogus rape charges lobbed against Julian

- The US Government's Espionage charges

- Journalism in 2021

- Why Julian's case is very important for the future of journalism

- How to support Julian's defense fund

- much more

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0:00.0	So, freaks, it's your boy, Marty Band, here to introduce this episode of Tales from the Crypt.
0:04.9	The immense pleasure of being joined by Matt O'Dell to sit down with Gabriel Shepton,
0:10.8	the brother of Julian Assange.
0:12.6	Very heavy episode, very important episode.
0:17.1	Yeah, the Julian Assange saga continues.
0:23.3	He's being held up in court in the UK.
0:25.6	The U.S. is appealing the UK court's decision to not extradite Julian to the United States on the basis that if he were to be extradited, they fear that he would harm himself, potentially commit suicide.
0:42.4	Yeah, it's fucked up what's going on, freaks. Do we live in a free country?
0:47.9	Julian Assange simply create a website that people would share information with, and he would share that information to the public.
0:56.4	Trying to hold our government accountable for killing innocent civilians abroad in the name of U.S. citizens
1:03.1	using weapons purchased with U.S. tax dollars and Fiat printed ex-Neilo.
1:14.2	It's disgusting stuff. And this man for sharing this information is being persecuted hunted down tortured tortured cruel and unusual punishment we're just
1:22.6	extending this this trial first they they tried to throw rape charges at them were completely
1:27.1	unfounded.
1:28.8	And when those charges didn't stick, the U.S. years later stepped in and said,
1:33.7	all right, we're going to charge you with espionage. This is a very important case.
1:37.3	Very important story. Mainstream media doesn't seem to want to be covering it. They're
1:41.2	burying it under a bunch of bullshit.
1:48.2	Nobody wants to talk about this.
1:49.5	It's very important.
1:50.6	Very important precedent being said here with how journalists are allowed to distill
1:55.5	information and what people are allowed to talk about.
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