Julian Assange is a Victim of a Politically Driven Bail Decision, as I Once Was!

international | anti-war / imperialism | news report Thursday December 16, 2010 09:02 by Ciaron O'Reilly - ...written in 3rd. person for purposes of circulation!

YOUTUBE (2min22sec)
- Irish/Australian Plowshare/Catholic Worker Activist Ciaron O'Reilly
does Solidarity Speaks Out Outside Westminster Court
While Assange Denied Bail! (Dec 7 2010)
- Solidarity with Assange and Manning!
http://youtu.be/8Tw98tv0sso

In August 2006, the PItstop Ploughshares/ Shannon 5 were acquitted of the Feb 3rd. 2003 $2.5 million criminal damage to a U.S. war plane enroute to the invasion of Iraq.
American fury at this acquittal and Irish government sychophancy is the basis of the cable communictaions
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Ireland_and_WikiLeaks,_Secr..._Eyes

O'Reilly
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciaron_O%27Reilly
previously served 13 months in U.S. jails and prisons for his participation in theNew Year's Day ANZUS Plowshares
http://www.craftech.com/~dcpledge/brandywine/plow/webpa...S.htm
disabling of a B52 Bomber at Griffis Air Force Base, uspstate New York.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciaron_O%27Reilly

At the conclusion of his sentence June 15th. 1993 , O'Reilly (like Assange) was the victim of a politically driven bail decision. He was rearrested immediately by U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) on release from the custody of Bureau of Prisons (BOP) .He was immediately returned to his cell Oakdale Federal Prison.
http://www.bop.gov/locations/institutions/oax/index.jsp

At a Federal court bail hearing, held within the prison complex, where O'Reilly was represented over the telephone by an immigration lawyer in Washingotn DC, $50,000 bail was placed on him for the minor charge of overstaying a tourist visa and "being guilty of a crime of moral turpitude". The second charge was in connection to his original plowshares action wheich inolved some may say an "abusive nonconsensual relationship" with a B52 Bomber that was older than he was!

The moral turpitude charge was later dropped by the INS. A conviction means you are pretty much banned for life from entering the United States. This is how they banned Charlie Chaplin
http://www.americanheritage.com/entertainment/articles/...shtml

This inflated bail sum, was for example, the same amount Sid Vicious received when accused of killing Nancy Spungen and was 5-10 times higher than many of his O'Reilly's prisoners in the Oakdale Prison, who had served more jail time for drug and gun related offences. O'Reilly was released 6 weeks later after $50,000 bail was paid.

O'Reilly was later to be rearrested by INS and returned to Oakdale and returned to Oakdale. He was arrested by an INS agent during an interview he had voluntarily returned for - when he refused to answer questions about the Berigan brothers.

At a second bail heairng, held before a new Federal Judge later that week, a reduced bail of $10,000 was placed on O'Reilly. This bail decision was then appealed by the INS extending O'Reilly's period in custody. The appeal failed and he was released again. Following a deportation hearing in 1993, O'Reilly was deported from the U.S. (something he often refers to as "the more tradiitonal punishment of transportation to Australia!") .

O'Reilly is convinced that Julian Assange is now the victim of a politically driven bail decision as he once was in the context oif a different war 20 years ago!

O'Reilly has served close to 2 years in prison over a 30+ history of nonviolent anti-war activism. He is very proactve in trying to generate solidarity for both military and civilian anti-war prisoners.
http://www.bop.gov/locations/institutions/oax/index.jsp

O'Reilly believes, if 1% of the people who marcehed against the war on Feb 15th. 2003 had been wiling to go to prison as consequence of nonviolent resistance wihin both the military and civil society AND the other 99% who marched on that day had taken on proactive solidarity with the jailed resisters (fed the cat, dealt with the hysterical parents, wrote letters to the prisoners, spread the word, celebrated - not undermined as happened - the resistance, we could have stopped the war AND we would still have a bouyant anti-war movement.

Instead, 10 years into this war we have no popular support for the war and little visible opposition to it - we have mereley an anti-war remnant. O'Reilly believes that without a developing broader culture of solidarity there can be no sustained nonviolent anti-war resistance.

In recent months, O'Reilly has been running pretty much a solo campaign in England and Ireland to generate support for Welsh/American Bradley Manning
http://www.bradleymanning.org/
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/98346?search_text=ciaro...75854
http://london.indymedia.org/articles/6719
presently entering his 204th. day of military detention (Iraq, Kuwait now Quantico) accused of being the WikiLeaks source on U.S. war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Letters and postcards to:

Bradley Manning
c/o Courage to Resist
484 Lake Park Ave #41
Oakland CA 94610
USA

*Letters will be opened, "contraband" discarded and then mailed weekly to Bradley via someone on his approved correspondence list.