293. Julian Assange: Free Speech Martyr? Featuring Stella Assange

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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🗓️ 3 October 2022

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Dr. Peterson's extensive catalog is available now on DailyWire+: https://utm.io/ueSXh Stella Assange and Dr Jordan B Peterson discuss the freedom of information, the age of journalism on the internet, and the foremost political prisoner in the west: Julian Assange. Stella Assange is a lawyer with a degree in law and politics from the SOAS University in London, an MSC in refugee law from Oxford, and a masters degree in public International law from Madrid. Her husband, Julian Assange, is somewhat infamous not only for founding Wikileaks, but for publishing classified government documents that lead to his unlawful imprisonment. Today, Stella leads the charge for his freedom and for the freedom of information. —Links— For Stella Assange: Twitter: @STELLAMORIS1 For US/Canada: https://assangedefense.org/take-action/ For UK viewers: https://dontextraditeassange.com/take-action/ The Trial of Julian Assange: A Story of Persecution by Nils Melzer https://www.amazon.com/Trial-Julian-Assange-Story-Persecution/dp/1839766220/ —Chapters— (0:00) Coming up (1:04) Intro (7:30) 750 thousand pages of trouble (15:14) Incautious journalism (24:32) Sexual misconduct allegations (38:37) The Ecuadorian embassy (47:26) The US enters the fold, fault 7 (58:28) Has the US prosecution achieved their goals? (1:04:05) Moving the goal post, 17 charges (1:12:45) Why the battle cannot be waged in a US court (1:22:13) The constitutionality of the espionage act (1:27:50) What this means going forward (1:37:41) To stand one's ground // SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL // Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/jordanbpeterson.com/youtubesignup Donations: https://jordanbpeterson.com/donate // COURSES // Discovering Personality: https://jordanbpeterson.com/personality Self Authoring Suite: https://selfauthoring.com Understand Myself (personality test): https://understandmyself.com // BOOKS // Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life: https://jordanbpeterson.com/Beyond-Order 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos: https://jordanbpeterson.com/12-rules-for-life Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief: https://jordanbpeterson.com/maps-of-meaning // LINKS // Website: https://jordanbpeterson.com Events: https://jordanbpeterson.com/events Blog: https://jordanbpeterson.com/blog Podcast: https://jordanbpeterson.com/podcast // SOCIAL // Twitter: https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson Instagram: https://instagram.com/jordan.b.peterson Facebook: https://facebook.com/drjordanpeterson Telegram: https://t.me/DrJordanPeterson All socials: https://linktr.ee/drjordanbpeterson #JordanPeterson #JordanBPeterson #DrJordanPeterson #DrJordanBPeterson #DailyWirePlus

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0:00.0	Hello everyone. I'm here today speaking with Stella Assange, who is the wife of Julian
0:23.3	Paul Assange, and I'm going to start with his bio in a strange twist since he at the moment
0:29.2	can't speak for himself, and then I'm going to turn to hers. Julian Paul Assange is an
0:34.9	Australian editor, publisher, and activist who founded WikiLeaks in 2006. In 2010, WikiLeaks
0:44.6	published a series of leaks provided by American Intel analyst Chelsea Manning and attracted widespread
0:53.6	international attention and outrage, I would say. In early 2010, Manning, who reported being
1:00.4	horrified by the behavior of then his colleagues, declares three quarters of a million classified and
1:08.7	unclassified, but sensitive military slash diplomatic documents, two WikiLeaks, an online news site.
1:16.8	The US government then launched a continuing criminal investigation into WikiLeaks. In 2010,
1:26.6	Assange began to be pursued, and I say began because it went on for a very long time,
1:33.2	began to be pursued by Swedish authorities for alleged sexual misconduct episodes. Those
1:42.2	charges were eventually rescinded. UK authorities operating as a consequence of the Swedish call
1:51.6	arranged a potential extradition. Assange, at that point, broke bail,
1:56.8	violated UK law, and took refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy, where he remained under different
2:05.2	conditions for many years, from 2010 to 2019, but was finally arrested and returned to the UK.
2:15.5	Where he has been imprisoned since in Belmarsha, category A, prison in London.
2:22.8	He currently faces the possibility of extradition to the US and possible prosecution there on some
2:30.3	18 essentially espionage-related charges. According to the Irish Times recently, it's now a year and
2:39.4	a half since Assange completed his 50-week sentence for jumping bail. This is where the Julian
2:45.8	Assange story gets even stranger, if possible, despite the fact that there are new new charges
2:53.2	against him in the UK. He is still in the category A, prison, Belmarsha, where he has spent much of his time
3:01.0	in solitary confinement. In May 2019, Assange was brought up on 17 new charges relating to the US
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