UJohn Pilger uye wabukela uvavanyo lukaJulian Assange kwigalari yoluntu kwi-Old Bailey yaseLondon. Wathetha noTimothy Erik Strom kwe Arena iphephancwadi, eOstreliya:
Umbuzo: Emva kokubukela ityala lika-Julian Assange ngokwakhe, ungachaza umoya okhoyo enkundleni?
Umoya okhoyo uye wothusa. Nditsho ngaphandle kokuthandabuza; Ndikhe ndahlala kwiinkundla ezininzi kwaye andifane ndiyazi urhwaphilizo olunjalo lwenkqubo efanelekileyo; yimpindezelo le. Ukubeka ecaleni isiko elinxulunyaniswa โnobulungisa baseBritaneโ, maxa wambi kuye kwavuselela ukuvavanywa kwetyala likaStalinist. Omnye umahluko kukuba kumatyala omboniso, ummangalelwa wema enkundleni ngokufanelekileyo. Kwityala lika-Assange, ummangalelwa wayevalelwe emva kweglasi eshinyeneyo, kwaye kwafuneka akhase ngamadolo akhe ukuya kumngxuma weglasi, ejongwe ngunogada wakhe, ukuze aqhagamshelane namagqwetha akhe. Umyalezo wakhe, ebesebeza ngokuvakalayo kwiimaski zobuso, WAYE wagqithiswa emva kwexesha elide lenkundla ukuya apho abameli bakhe babexoxa ngetyala ngokuchasene nokubuyiselwa kwakhe kwisihogo saseMelika.
Qwalasela le nkqubo yemihla ngemihla kaJulian Assange, ummi waseOstreliya okwityala lobuntatheli obuthetha inyaniso. Wavuswa ngentsimbi yesihlanu kwisisele sakhe kwintolongo yaseBelmarsh kwindawo emfiliba esemazantsi eLondon. Ukuqala kwam ukumbona uJulian eBelmarsh, ndidlule kwisiqingatha seyure sokujonga 'ukhuseleko', kubandakanya impumlo yenja ngasemva kwam, ndafumana umntu obhityileyo kabuhlungu ehleli yedwa enxibe ibhanti etyheli. Wayelahlekelwe ngaphezu kwe-10 kilos kwisithuba seenyanga; iingalo zakhe zazingenamsipha. Amazwi akhe okuqala ayesithi: โNdicinga ukuba ndishiywa ziingqondoโ.
Ndazama ukumqinisekisa ukuba wayengekho. Ukomelela nokukhalipha kwakhe koyikeka, kodwa kukho umda. Oko kwakungaphezu konyaka. Kwiiveki ezintathu ezidlulileyo, ekuzeni kokusa, wakhutshelwa impahla, wabotshwa, waza walungiselelwa ukuthuthwa ukuya kwiNkundla yoLwaphulo-mthetho ePhakathi, i-Old Bailey, kwilori iqabane lakhe, uStella Moris, elichaze njengebhokisi yomngcwabo ephakanyisiweyo. Yayinefestile enye encinci; kwafuneka eme ngononophelo ukuze ajonge ngaphandle. Ilori kunye noonogada bayo yayiqhutywa nguSerco, enye yeenkampani ezininzi ezinxibelelene nezopolitiko eziqhuba uninzi lweBritane kaBoris Johnson.
Uhambo oluya kwi-Old Bailey luthathe ubuncinane iyure enesiqingatha. Obo buncinci iiyure ezintathu ezishukunyiswa kwitrafikhi efana nenkumba yonke imihla. Wangeniswa kwindlwana yakhe emxinwa ngasemva kwenkundla, emva koko wajonga phezulu, eqhwanyaza, ezama ukubonisa ubuso kwigalari yoluntu ngokubonakala kweglasi. Wabona indoda yasenkundleni kayise, uJohn Shipton, kunye nam, yaye amanqindi ethu enyuka. Ngeglasi, wolula isandla ukuba abambe iminwe noStella, oligqwetha kwaye ehleli kumzimba wenkundla.
Besilapha ukuze ekugqibeleni koko kwabizwa sisithandi sobulumko uGuy Debord Umbutho weSpectacle: indoda esilwela ubomi bayo. Nangona kunjalo ulwaphulo-mthetho lwakhe kukuba wenze inkonzo yoluntu ephambili: ukuveza oko sinelungelo lokukwazi: ubuxoki boorhulumente bethu kunye nolwaphulo-mthetho abalwenzayo egameni lethu. Ukuyila kwakhe i-WikiLeaks kunye nokhuseleko lwayo olukhuselekileyo lwemithombo yaguqula ubuntatheli, yabubuyisela kumbono wabo banqwenelayo. Umbono ka-Edmund Burke wobuntatheli obukhululekileyo njengelifa lesine ngoku lilifa lesihlanu elikhanyisa ukukhanya kwabo banciphisa intsingiselo yedemokhrasi ngemfihlo yabo yolwaphulo-mthetho. Yiyo loo nto isohlwayo sakhe sigqithise kakhulu.
Ucalucalulo oluthe kratya kwiinkundla endihleli kulo nyaka nakunyaka ophelileyo, noJulian edokhini, yonakalisa nayiphi na imbono yobulungisa baseBritane. Xa amapolisa angamatshijolo amrhuqa kwindawo yakhe yozakuzo e-Ecuadorean-jongisisa ifoto kwaye uya kubona ukuba ubambe incwadi yeGore Vidal; U-Assange unoburharha bezopolitiko obufana nobukaVidalโijaji yamnika isigwebo esimasikizi seveki ezingama-50 kwintolongo enokhuseleko oluphezulu ngenxa nje yokwaphula umthetho webheyile.
Kangangeenyanga, wayenqatshelwe ukwenza umthambo kwaye wayevalelwe yedwa efihliweyo 'njengenkathalo yezempilo'. Wakhe wandixelela ukuba wanyathela ubude besisele sakhe, ebuyela emva naphambili, ebuyela emva naphambili, kwihafu yemarathon yakhe. Kwisisele esilandelayo, umhlali wakhwaza ubusuku bonke. Ekuqaleni wavinjwa iindondo zakhe zokufunda, eshiywe ngasemva kwinkohlakalo yozakuzo. Walelwa amaphepha asemthethweni awayeza kulungiselela ngawo ityala lakhe, kwanokungena kwithala leencwadi lasentolongweni nokusetyenziswa kwelaptop esisiseko. Iincwadi azithunyelelwe ngumhlobo wakhe, intatheli uCharles Glass, naye owasinda ekuthinjweni eBeirut, zabuyiswa. Wayengakwazi ukubiza amagqwetha akhe aseMelika. Ebesoloko enikwa amayeza ngabaphathi bentolongo. Xa ndambuza ukuba bamnike ntoni, akazange atsho. Irhuluneli yaseBelmarsh yawonga ngeMbasa yoBukhosi baseBritane.
Kwi-Old Bailey, elinye lamangqina ezonyango, uGqr Kate Humphrey, ugqirha we-neuropsychologist kwiKholeji yase-Imperial, eLondon, uchaze umonakalo: Ingqondo kaJulian ihambile ukusuka 'kwinqanaba eliphezulu, okanye kuluhlu oluphezulu kakhulu' ukuya 'ngokubalulekileyo ngaphantsi. ' eli nqanaba lilelona liphezulu, ukuya kuthi ga kwinqanaba apho wayesokola ukufumana ulwazi kunye 'nokusebenza kuluhlu olusezantsi lomndilili'.
Yiloo nto uMthetheleli oKhethekileyo weZizwe eziManyeneyo ojongene nokuThuthukiswa, uNjingalwazi uNils Melzer, akubiza ngokuba โkuthuthunjiswa ngokwasengqondweniโ, umphumo โweqela lemigulukuduโ elifana neleqela lemigulukudu ngoorhulumente kunye neeshill zabo zosasazo. Obunye ubungqina bezonyango lobuchwephesha buyothusa kakhulu andinanjongo yakuphinda apha. Kwanele ukuthi u-Assange ufunyanwe une-autism kunye ne-Asperger's syndrome kwaye, ngokutsho kukaNjingalwazi uMichael Kopelman, enye yeengcali ze-neuropsychiatrists eziphambili kwihlabathi, unengxaki 'yokufuna ukuzibulala' kwaye unokufumana indlela yokuthatha ubomi bakhe ukuba ukhutshelwe ngaphandle. eMelika.
UJames Lewis QC, umtshutshisi waseBritani waseMelika, uchithe eyona nxalenye ibalaseleyo yokuphonononga kwakhe uNjingalwazi uKopelman egxotha ukugula ngengqondo kunye nobungozi bayo 'njengemalinge'. Andizange ndive kwimeko yanamhlanje imbono yakudala yobuthathaka kunye nokuba sesichengeni kwabantu.
Eyam imbono yeyokuba ukuba u-Assange ukhululwe, unokuphinda afumane indawo enkulu yobomi bakhe. Uneqabane elinothando, izihlobo ezizinikeleyo kunye namahlakani kunye namandla emvelo ebanjwa lezopolitiko elinomgaqo. Ukwanabo noburharha obungendawo.
Kodwa oko kusekude kakhulu. Amaxesha okudibana phakathi kwejaji- umantyi ojongeka eGothic obizwa ngokuba nguVanessa Baraitser, owaziwa kancinci ngaye-kunye nomtshutshisi obambeleyo kulawulo lukaTrump. Kuze kube yimihla embalwa edlulileyo, iingxoxo zokukhusela ziye zachithwa rhoqo. Umtshutshisi okhokelayo, uJames Lewis QC, owayesakuba yi-SAS kwaye ngoku oyiNtloko yeJaji yaseFalklands, ngokubanzi ufumana into ayifunayo, ngokugqithiseleyo ukuya kwiiyure ezine ukunyelisa amangqina achwephesha, ngelixa uviwo lokukhusela lufakwe kwisiqingatha seyure. Andithandabuzi, ukuba bekukho ijaji, inkululeko yakhe iya kuqinisekiswa.
Igcisa eliphikisayo u-Ai Weiwei weza kuthi ngenye intsasa kwigalari yoluntu. Waphawula ukuba e-China isigqibo sejaji sasisele senziwe. Oku kubangele ukuhlekisa okuhlekisayo. Iqabane lam kwigalari, isazi sedayari esikrelekrele kunye nonozakuzaku wangaphambili waseBritane UCraig Murray wabhala:
Ndiyoyika ukuba kulo lonke elaseLondon imvula enzima kakhulu ngoku inetha kwabo baye basebenza ubomi babo bonke kumaziko enkululeko yedemokhrasi ukuba ubuncinane ngokubanzi kwaye ngokuqhelekileyo isetyenziselwa ukusebenza ngaphakathi kolawulo lwemigaqo yabo. Kuye kwacaca kum ngoSuku 1 ukuba ndibukele i-charade iqhubeka. Akukho nto encinci kum ukuba u-Baraitser akacingi nantoni na ngaphaya kweengxoxo zokuvula ezibhaliweyo zineempembelelo. Ndiye ndaphinda-phinda ndinixelele ukuba, apho kufuneka kuwiswe khona izigwebo, uye wawazisa enkundleni ebhalwe kwangaphambili, ngaphambi kokuba aphulaphule iingxoxo eziphambi kwakhe.
Ndilindele ngamandla ukuba isigqibo sokugqibela senziwe kule meko nangaphambi kokuba iingxoxo zokuvula zifunyenwe.
Isicwangciso sikaRhulumente wase-US ibikukunciphisa ulwazi olukhoyo kuluntu kunye nokunciphisa ukufikelela okusebenzayo kuluntu ngokubanzi malunga nolwazi olukhoyo. Yiyo ke loo nto siyibonile imiqobo egqithisileyo ekufikeleleni ngokwasemzimbeni nakwividiyo. Ijelo leendaba elinzima liqinisekise ukuba abo bethu baziyo into eyenzekayo bambalwa kakhulu kuluntu olubanzi.
Kukho iirekhodi ezimbalwa zenkqubo. Ngabo: bakaCraig Murray blog lobuqu, UJoe Lauria uphila ingxelo News Consortium kwaye i IWebhusayithi yezeSocialist yeHlabathi. Iblogi yentatheli yaseMelika uKevin Gosztola, I-Shadowproof, exhaswa ngemali ubukhulu becala nguye, uye waxela ngaphezulu kovavanyo kunoshicilelo olukhulu lwase-US kunye neTV, kubandakanya i-CNN, idityanisiwe.
EOstreliya, ilizwe lika-Assange, โukhuseloโ lulandela indlela eqhelekileyo esetwe phesheya kolwandle. Umnxibelelanisi waseLondon we Sydney Morning HeraldLatika Bourke, wabhala oku kutshanje:
Inkundla yakuva uAssange wadandatheka ngexesha leminyaka esixhenxe awayeyichithe kwi-embassy yase-Ecuador apho wafuna indawo yokukhosela yezopolitiko ukubaleka ukuthunyelwa eSweden ukuya kuphendula izityholo zodlwengulo kunye nokuxhatshazwa ngokwesondo.
Kwakungekho โzityholo zodlwengulo nezokuxhatshazwa ngokwesondoโ eSweden. Ubuxoki bobuvila bukaBourke abuqhelekanga. Ukuba ityala lika-Assange lityala lezopolitiko kule nkulungwane, njengoko ndikholelwa ukuba kunjalo, isiphumo salo asiyikutywina kuphela ikamva lentatheli ngokwenza umsebenzi wayo kodwa soyikise kanye imigaqo yobuntatheli obukhululekile kunye nentetho yasimahla. Ukungabikho kwengxelo engundoqo yenkqubo, ubuncinane, kukuzitshabalalisa. Iintatheli kufuneka zibuze: ngubani olandelayo?
Hayi indlela elihlazo ngayo yonke into. Kwiminyaka elishumi eyadlulayo, i Guardian waxhaphaza umsebenzi ka-Assange, wabanga inzuzo kunye namabhaso kunye nesivumelwano seHollywood esinengeniso, emva koko wamjikela ngetyhefu. Kulo lonke ityala le-Old Bailey, amagama amabini akhankanywe ngumtshutshisi, i GuardianUDavid Leigh, ngoku osele umhlala phantsi 'njengomhleli wophando' kunye noLuka Harding, iRussiaphobe kunye nombhali wentsomi. Guardian 'ukukhawulezaUmcebisi kaTrump uPaul Manafort kunye neqela labantu baseRussia batyelele e-Assange kumzi wozakuzo wase-Ecuadorean. Oku akuzange kwenzeke, kwaye i Guardian akakaxoli. Incwadi ethi Harding kunye neLeigh e-Assange-ebhalwe ngasemva kwesifundo sabo-ibhengeze igama eliyimfihlo kwifayile yeWikiLeaks u-Assange awayeyiphathise uLeigh ngexesha Guardian'ubudlelwane'. Kutheni ukhuselo lungakhange lubize esi sibini kunzima ukusiqonda.
U-Assange ucatshulwe kwincwadi yabo echaza ngexesha lesidlo sangokuhlwa kwindawo yokutyela yaseLondon ukuba akakhathali ukuba abantu ababizwe ngokuvuza benzakaliswe. UHarding noLeigh bebengekho esidlweni. UJohn Goetz, intatheli yophando kunye Isibuko, wayekwisidlo sangokuhlwa kwaye wangqina ukuba uAssange akazange athethe nto yohlobo. Okumangalisayo kukuba, uMgwebi uBaraitser wammisa uGoetz ukuba athethe oku enkundleni.
Nangona kunjalo, ukhuselo luphumelele ekuboniseni ubungakanani bendlela u-Assange afuna ngayo ukukhusela kunye nokuhlengahlengisa amagama kwiifayile ezikhutshwe yiWikiLeaks kwaye akukho bungqina bunokuthenjwa obukhoyo babantu abonzakele ngokuvuza. Impempe enkulu uDaniel Ellsberg uthe uAssange uzilungise ngokwakhe iifayile ze-15,000. Intatheli ephandayo yaseNew Zealand uNicky Hager, owayesebenza no-Assange kwimfazwe yase-Afghanistan nase-Iraq, uchaze indlela u-Assange awathatha ngayo 'amanyathelo okhuseleko angaqhelekanga ekubhaleni ngokutsha amagama abantu abanolwazi'.
Q: Zithini iziphumo zesigwebo solu vavanyo kubuntatheli ngokubanzi-ngaba sisenzo sezinto ezizayo?
I'Assange effect' sele ivakala kwihlabathi liphela. Ukuba abakholisi urhulumente eWashington, iintatheli eziphandayo zinoxanduva lokutshutshiswa phantsi kwe-1917 US. Umthetho we-Espionage; umboniso ucacile. Ayinamsebenzi nokuba uphi. KwiWashington, ubuzwe babanye abantu kunye nolongamo alufane lubalule; ngoku ayikho. IBritane inikezele ngokusemthethweni igunya layo kwiSebe lezoBulungisa likaTrump. EOstreliya, a UMthetho woLwazi loKhuseleko lweSizwe uthembisa izilingo Kafkaesque abakreqi. IZiko loSasazo laseOstreliya liye lagqogqwa ngamapolisa neekhompyutha zeentatheli zathathwa. Urhulumente unike amagosa ezobuntlola amandla angazange abonwe ngaphambili, nto leyo eyenza ukuba ukubethelwa kwempempe kubuntatheli kube yinto engenakwenzeka. Inkulumbuso uScott Morrison uthi uAssange 'kufuneka ajongane nomculo'. Inkohlakalo ekhohlakeleyo yengxelo yakhe iqiniswa kukuvalwa kwayo.
โUbubiโ, wabhala uHannah Arendt, โbuvela kukusilela ukucinga. Idelela ingcinga nje ukuba ingcinga izama ukuzibandakanya nobubi kwaye iphonononge indawo nemigaqo ephuma kuyo, iyaphoxeka kuba ayifumani nto. Yiyo ke loo nto isibhambathiso sobubiโ.
Q: Emva kokulandela ibali le-WikiLeaks ngokusondeleyo ishumi leminyaka, eli ngqina lokuzibonela likutshintshe njani ukuqonda kwakho malunga nokuba yintoni esengozini ngolingo luka-Assange?
Kudala ndigxeka ubuntatheli njenge-echo yamandla angaphendulekiyo kunye nentshatsheli yabo bangamabhakana. Ke, kum, ukufika kwe-WikiLeaks kwakumnandi; Ndiyayithanda indlela u-Assange ajonga ngayo uluntu ngentlonipho, ukuba wayekulungele ukwabelana ngomsebenzi wakhe kunye 'nesiqhelo' kodwa angazibandakanyi kwiklabhu yabo edibeneyo. Oku, kunye nekhwele elize, lamenza iintshaba phakathi kwabantu abahlawulwa ngokugqithisileyo kunye nabangenatalente, bengakhuselekanga kwizenzo zabo zokuzimela kunye nokungakhethi buso.
Ndayithanda indlela yokuziphatha kwiWikiLeaks. U-Assange wayengafane abuzwe malunga noku, kodwa amandla akhe amaninzi amangalisayo avela kwingqiqo enamandla yokuziphatha yokuba oorhulumente kunye nezinye izinto ezinomdla akufanele zisebenze emva kweendonga zemfihlo. Ungumntu wedemokhrasi. Wachaza oku kwenye yethu yokuqala Udliwano-ndlebe emzini wam ngo2010.
Oko kusemngciphekweni kuthi sonke kudala kusemngciphekweni: inkululeko yokubiza igunya liziphendulele, inkululeko yokucelโ umngeni, ukuvakalisa uhanahaniso, ukuchasa. Umahluko namhlanje kukuba amandla obukhosi behlabathi, i-United States, ayizange iqiniseke ngegunya layo le-metastatic njengokuba kunjalo namhlanje. Njengomkhohlakali ovuthayo, isijikelezisa ukuya kwimfazwe yehlabathi ukuba siyayivumela. Okuncinci kolu loyiko kubonakala kumajelo eendaba.
I-WikiLeaks, kwelinye icala, isivumele ukuba sijonge umngcelele ogqubayo wobukhosi kulo lonke uluntu-cinga ngembubhiso e-Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Yemen, ukukhankanya abambalwa, ukuhluthwa kwabantu abazizigidi ezingama-37 kunye nokufa kwabantu. I-12 lezigidi zamadoda, abafazi nabantwana 'kwimfazwe yobugrogrisi'โinkoliso yabo isemva kwembonakalo yenkohliso.
UJulian Assange usisoyikiso kolu loyiko luqhubekayo-yiyo loo nto etshutshiswa, kutheni inkundla yomthetho iye yaba sisixhobo sengcinezelo, kutheni kufuneka abe sisazela sethu esidibeneyo: kutheni sonke kufuneka sibe sisoyikiso.
Isigqibo sejaji siya kwaziwa ngomhla we-4th kaJanuwari.
UJohn Pilger, intatheli, umbhali kunye nomlawuli wefilimu, uphumelele ukuhluka okuninzi ngomsebenzi wakhe, kubandakanywa nebhaso eliphezulu laseBritani lobuntatheli kabini, i-American 'Emmy' kunye ne-British Academy Award. Uvimba wakhe opheleleyo ugcinwe kwiThala leeNcwadi laseBritani. Uhlala eLondon naseSydney.
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