"We
support you completely and we'll work unreservedly to get you
released," Roger Waters told Assange and Manning.
British
activist and Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters showed support on his
social media accounts Saturday for WikiLeaks founder and freedom of
press activist, Julian Assange, and for former United States Army
intelligence analyst and Wikileaks whistleblower, Chelsea Manning.
"Good
news first," Waters said, reporting that protesters are
holding "demonstrations and meetings in both London and in
Melbourne, Australia in support of Julian Assange and his fight for
liberty and against extradition." Waters asked his fans to
go and show support for the Wikileaks founder.
Waters
cheered another "successful" meeting organized by the
Socialist Party in Assange's defense held in Sydney, Astralia last
week which bought award-winning documentary film maker and
journalist, John Pilger, to the stage as main speaker.
However,
Assange's current situation is becoming more precarious as Ecuador
and its President Lenin Moreno continue their negotiations with the
International Monetary Fund (IMF). The organization is notorious in
Latin America for its role in the continent's economic crisis. Waters
denounced the IMF's infiltration into regional politics and its close
relationship to the United States.
"Obviously,
the United States is trying to extradite Julian Assange and they're
bringing on pressure to bear on the new, weak, very right-wing,
malleable President of Ecuador by threatening to withhold an IMF loan
to Ecuador and use that economic muscle to persuade him to renege
upon their agreement to give Julian Assange Ecuadorian nationality,
which meant that he could not be extradited, and to give him
temporary asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy in London," the
activist said.
Waters
also criticized the new round of sanctions against the Venezuelan
people. He said that the U.S.-backed attempted coup d'etat against
democratically elected President Nicolas Maduro, "so far has
failed."
"But
the country is still under enormous threat because of the
extraordinary financial muscle that the United States can wield in
its moves towards regime change," he said.
Finally,
the British activist informed his fans that the "really,
really, really bad news," was that Chelsea Manning, "the
great heroic whistleblower," was imprisoned Friday after
refusing to testify to a secret grand jury two days earlier in an
on-going investigation against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
On
Friday Manning returned to a federal court in Alexandria, Virginia
for a closed contempt hearing where U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton
told Manning that she would remain in federal custody “until she
purges or the end of the life of the grand jury,” a statement
from her representatives said.
The
United States government has "now imprisoned her again this
time and they have admitted this to coerce her into speaking to a
grand jury behind closed doors in secret in order to accumulate
evidence to try Julian Assange for espionage whenever they manage to
extradite him from Ecuador," said Waters.
The
British rockstar concluded his statement by singing a song for
Chelsea Manning, saying, "We support you completely and we'll
work unreservedly to get you released from this insane incarceration
that the US government is imposed on you and I'm for you."
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