[Diggers350] Arrested! Green Party Members Dob In XR's Roger Hallam +4 Over Climate Protest

[Tony Gosling]

Roger is being held in Pentonville Prison in 
London which was built in 1842 and is in 
disrepair. He is charged with breaking bail 
conditions over an action that saw activists 
throw paint on the walls of the four major 
political parties, as well as conspiracy to cause 
criminal damage. A Green Party member leaked to 
the British police a recorded Zoom discussion 
Roger was having with three other members of 
Burning Pink, an anti-political party organized 
to create citizen assemblies to replace ruling 
governing bodies, as they discussed upcoming actions.
The homes of the four activists on the Zoom 
meeting – Roger Hallam, Blyth Brentnall, Diana 
Warner, Ferhat Ulusu and Anglican priest Steven 
Nunn – were raided on Aug. 25. Their electronic 
devises were confiscated by police and they were arrested.

Chris Hedges: The Cost of Resistance
September 23, 2020
https://consortiumnews.com/2020/09/23/chris-hedges-the-cost-of-resistance/

You can measure the effectiveness of resistance 
by the fury of the response by ruling elites.

By Chris Hedges - ScheerPost.com

Two of the rebels I admire most, Julian Assange, 
the WikiLeaks publisher, and Roger Hallam, the 
co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, are in jail 
in Britain. That should not be surprising. You 
can measure the effectiveness of resistance by the fury of the response.

Julian courageously exposed the lies, deceit, war 
crimes and corruption of the ruling imperial 
elites. Roger has helped organized the largest 
acts of mass civil disobedience in British 
history, shutting down parts of London for weeks, 
in a bid to wrest power from a ruling class that 
has done nothing, and will do nothing, to halt 
the climate emergency and our death march to mass extinction.

The governing elites, when truly threatened, turn 
the rule of law into farce. Dissent becomes 
treason. They use the state mechanisms of control 
– intelligence agencies, police, courts, black 
propaganda and a compliant press that acts as 
their echo chamber, along with the jails and 
prisons, not only to marginalize and isolate 
rebels, but to psychologically and physically destroy them.

The list of rebels silenced or killed by ruling 
elites runs in a direct line from Socrates to the 
Haitian resistance leader Toussaint L’Ouverture, 
who led the only successful slave revolt in human 
history and died in a frigid French prison cell 
of malnutrition and exhaustion, to the 
imprisonment of the socialist Eugene V. Debs, 
whose health was also broken in a federal prison.

Rebel leaders from the 1960s, including Mumia Abu 
Jamal, Sundiata Acoli, Kojo Bomani Sababu, Mutulu 
Shakur and Leonard Peltier, remain, decades 
later, in U.S. prisons. Muslim activists, 
including those who led the charity The Holy Land 
Foundation and Syed Fahad Hashmi, were arrested, 
often at the request of Israel, after the 
hysteria following 9/11, and given tawdry show 
trials. They also remain incarcerated.

Resistance, genuine resistance, exacts a very, 
very high price. Those in power drop even the 
pretense of justice when they face an existential 
threat. Most rebels, like Ernesto “Che” Guevara, 
and the tens of thousands of rebels the U.S. has 
had kidnapped, disappeared and brutally tortured 
and killed throughout American history end up as martyrs.

Once a rebel is caged the state uses its absolute 
control and array of dark arts to break them.


Julian Assange in dated photo. (Twitter)

Julian, whose extradition hearing is underway in 
London, and who spent seven years trapped as a 
political prisoner in the Ecuadorian embassy in 
London, is taken from his cell in the high 
security Belmarsh Prison at 5:00 am. He is 
handcuffed, put in holding cells, stripped naked 
and X-rayed. He is transported an hour and a half 
each way to court in a police van that resembles 
a dog cage on wheels. He is held in a glass box 
at the back of court during the proceedings, 
often unable to consult with his lawyers. He has 
difficulty hearing the proceedings. He is 
routinely denied access to the documents in his 
case and is openly taunted in court by the judge.

It does not matter that Julian, being prosecuted 
under the 1917 Espionage Act, is not a U.S. 
citizen. It does not matter that WikiLeaks, which 
he founded and publishes, is not a U.S.-based publication.

The ominous message the U.S. government is 
sending is clear: No matter who or where you are, 
if you expose the inner workings of empire you 
will be hunted down, kidnapped and brought to the 
U.S. to be tried as a spy and imprisoned for 
life. The empire intends to be unaccountable, untouchable and unexamined.

The U.S. created in the so-called war on terror 
parallel legal and penal codes to railroad dissidents and rebels into prison.

These rebels are held in prolonged solitary 
confinement, creating deep psychological 
distress. They are prosecuted under special 
administrative measures, known as SAMs, to 
prevent or severely restrict communication with 
other prisoners, attorneys, family, the media and 
people outside the jail. They are denied access 
to the news and other reading material. They are 
barred from participating in educational and 
religious activities in the prison. They are 
subject to 24-hour electronic monitoring and 
23-hour lockdown. They must shower and go to the 
bathroom on camera. They are permitted to write 
one letter a week to a single member of their 
family, but cannot use more than three pieces of 
paper. They often have no access to fresh air and 
must take the one hour of recreation in a cage 
that looks like a giant hamster wheel.

‘Communications Management’

The U.S. has set up a segregated facility, the 
Communication Management Unit, at the federal 
prison in Terre Haute, Indiana. Nearly all the 
inmates transferred to Terre Haute are Muslims. A 
second facility has been set up at Marion, 
Illinois, where the inmates again are mostly 
Muslim but also include a sprinkling of 
animal-rights and environmental activists. Their 
sentences are arbitrarily lengthened by 
“terrorism enhancements” under the Patriot Act.

Amnesty International has called the Marion 
prison facility “inhumane.” All calls and mail – 
although communication customarily is off-limits 
to prison officials – are monitored in these two 
Communication Management Units. Communication 
among prisoners is required to be only in 
English. The highest-level “terrorists” are 
housed at the Penitentiary Administrative Maximum 
Facility, known as Supermax, in Florence, 
Colorado, where prisoners have almost no human 
interaction, physical exercise or mental 
stimulation. It is Guantánamo-like conditions in colder weather.

Assange in Distress

Julian is already very fragile. His psychological 
and physical distress include dramatic weight 
loss, severe respiratory problems, joint 
problems, dental decay, chronic anxiety, intense, 
constant stress resulting in an inability to 
relax or focus, and episodes of mental confusion.

These symptoms indicate, as Nils Melzer, the 
United Nations’ special rapporteur on torture who 
met and examined Julian in prison has stated, 
that he is suffering from prolonged psychological torture.

If Julian is extradited to the U.S. to face 17 
charges under the Espionage Act, each carrying a 
potential 10 years, which appears likely, he will 
continue to be psychologically and physically abused to break him.

He will be tried in the burlesque of a kangaroo 
court with “secret” evidence, familiar to Black 
and Muslim radicals as well as rebels such as 
Jeremy Hammond, sentenced to 10 years in prison 
for hacking into the computers and making public 
the emails of a private security firm that works 
on behalf of the government, including the 
Department of Homeland Security, and corporations such as Dow Chemical.

Roger is being held in Pentonville Prison in 
London which was built in 1842 and is in 
disrepair. He is charged with breaking bail 
conditions over an action that saw activists 
throw paint on the walls of the four major 
political parties, as well as conspiracy to cause 
criminal damage. A Green Party member leaked to 
the British police a recorded Zoom discussion 
Roger was having with three other members of 
Burning Pink, an anti-political party organized 
to create citizen assemblies to replace ruling 
governing bodies, as they discussed upcoming actions.

The homes of the four activists on the Zoom 
meeting – Roger Hallam, Blyth Brentnall, Diana 
Warner, Ferhat Ulusu and Anglican priest Steven 
Nunn – were raided on Aug. 25. Their electronic 
devises were confiscated by police and they were arrested.

Roger is housed in a dirty, vermin-infested cell 
and denied books and visitors. A vegan, he is 
forced to live on a diet of cold cereal and 
bread. On many days there is no hot food served 
in the prison. Violent altercations within the 
prison are commonplace. The overcrowded cells 
often lack lighting and heat. He has no change of 
clothes and has been unable to wash the clothes 
he is wearing for weeks. He stuffs bed sheets and 
paper in the cracks of the door to block mice and 
cockroaches. The toilet in his cell has no seat, 
is covered in excrement and does not flush 
properly. He goes days without access to the 
outside. His reading glasses are broken. He is 
waiting on a request for tape to fix them. The 
Covid-19 pandemic is in the prison. Two of the 
staff have died from the virus. Roger could be 
imprisoned in these conditions until February if 
he is denied bail in a hearing scheduled for Tuesday.

Roger’s arrest came as Extinction Rebellion was 
planning the blockade of the printing presses of 
News Corps Printworks, which prints the 
newspapers The Times, Sun on Sunday, Sunday 
Times, The Daily Mail and The London Evening 
Standard. The blockade took place on Sept. 4 to 
protest the failure of the news outlets to 
accurately report on the climate and ecological 
emergency. The blockade delayed distribution of the papers by several hours.

“The days of standing up to tyranny have long 
faded,” Roger writes from prison. “The 
life-and-death struggle against Hitler and 
fascism is consigned to the history books. 
Today’s liberal classes believe only in one 
thing: maintaining their privilege. Their one 
priority is power. The number one rule is: 
preserve our careers, our institutions at all 
cost. The historical rule number one of fighting 
evil is the willingness to lose your career and 
to risk the closing down of your institution.

The prospect of death and destruction is lost in 
a postmodernist haze. Leadership has decayed into 
sitting behind a desk, following public relations 
protocols (otherwise known as lying). Leading 
from the front, the first to go to prison Martin 
Luther King-style died with the passing of the World War II generation.”

“The game is up,” Roger continued.

“The old alliance with the liberal classes is 
dead. New forms of revolutionary initiative and 
leadership are rising up. Members of the new 
political party Burning Pink have thrown paint at 
the doors of the NGOs and political parties 
calling for open dialogue and public debate. The 
response, true to form, has been a lethal and 
deafening silence. We are now in prison from 
where I write this article after a Green Party 
member recorded a Zoom call and passed it to the 
police. We have not been let out for exercise for 
the first five days. We have no kettle, no 
pillows, no visits. But we don’t give a shit. We 
are doing something about Evil.”

Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning 
journalist who was a foreign correspondent for 15 
years for The New York Times, where he served as 
the Middle East bureau chief and Balkan bureau 
chief for the paper. He previously worked 
overseas for The Dallas Morning News, The 
Christian Science Monitor and NPR. He is the host 
of the Emmy Award-nominated RT America show “On Contact.”

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--Robert Fisk

'From South America, where payment must be made 
with subtlety, the Bormann organization has made 
a substantial contribution. It has drawn many of 
the brightest Jewish businessmen into a 
participatory role in the development of many of 
its corporations, and many of these Jews share 
their prosperity most generously with Israel. If 
their proposals are sound, they are even provided 
with a specially dispensed venture capital fund. 
I spoke with one Jewish businessmen in Hartford, 
Connecticut. He had arrived there quite unknown 
several years before our conversation, but with 
Bormann money as his leverage. Today he is more 
than a millionaire, a quiet leader in the 
community with a certain share of his profits 
earmarked as always for his venture capital 
benefactors. This has taken place in many other 
instances across America and demonstrates how 
Bormann’s people operate in the contemporary 
commercial world, in contrast to the fanciful 
nonsense with which Nazis are described in so much “literature.”

So much emphasis is placed on select Jewish 
participation in Bormann companies that when 
Adolf Eichmann was seized and taken to Tel Aviv 
to stand trial, it produced a shock wave in the 
Jewish and German communities of Buenos Aires. 
Jewish leaders informed the Israeli authorities 
in no uncertain terms that this must never happen 
again because a repetition would permanently 
rupture relations with the Germans of Latin 
America, as well as with the Bormann 
organization, and cut off the flow of Jewish 
money to Israel. It never happened again, and the 
pursuit of Bormann quieted down at the request of 
these Jewish leaders. He is residing in an 
Argentinian safe haven, protected by the most 
efficient German infrastructure in history as 
well as by all those whose prosperity depends on his well-being.'
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