Patrick Shannon

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[Patrick Shannon @PatrickShann299]

@BryceMLipscomb @RobertKennedyJr @KamalaHarris @KamalaHQ @NicoleShanahan I have no opinion on your question as my analysis concludes that neither has an unclouded path to the White House without a mutual rapprochement. If they combined their efforts, they could have a resounding victory and majorities in both houses.

[Patrick Shannon @PatrickShann299]

@RobertKennedyJr @CBSNews It’s pretty much your call. Who do you consider most compatible to work with in a cooperative manner? @KamalaHarris may decide to call you tonight,

[Patrick Shannon @PatrickShann299]

@autumnsdad1 Rings true.
Much better to approach disaffected democrats and independents with a cooperative manner. If @KamalaHarris would give @RobertKennedyJr that kind of a call, we could have such a unifying moment and a majority in both houses of Congress.

[Patrick Shannon @PatrickShann299]

I’m nervous about a split electorate.

@KamalaHarris you have the Bernie Progressives, a call on RFK, Jr. could unite the disaffected democrats and independents. Powerful move to strengthen your candidacy and gain seats in Congress.

[Robert F. Kennedy Jr @RobertKennedyJr]

The speech everyone is talking about

[Patrick Shannon @PatrickShann299]

@RobertKennedyJr Shanahan calls upon us to find the courage to fight for justice and thus find peace.
Great choice for Vice-President!
Let’s go!

[Patrick Shannon @PatrickShann299]

@NikkiHaley Please Nikki, go to Nevada. You can make a big difference, quickly.

[Patrick Shannon @PatrickShann299]

@RobertKennedyJr @patrickbetdavid I endorse your candidacy.
Tell me, how do I advise California voters to register? Should they remain Democratic, Republican, Green, et al, and write in your name?
Or
Should they register independent?
How will they get a ballot with your name printed on it?

[Stella Assange @Stella_Assange]

PRESS RELEASE

Julian Assange’s Final Appeal to be held in UK High Court 20-21 February 2024
Campaign groups immediately call for protest outside court and globally on those days.

The UK High Court has confirmed that a public hearing will take place on 20-21 February 2024. The two-day hearing may be the final chance for Julian Assange to prevent his extradition to the United States. If extradited, Assange faces a sentence of 175 years for exposing war crimes committed by the United States in the Afghan and Iraq wars.

Immediately after the court date was announced, protestors responded by calling for a mass protest at the court on the days of the hearing at 8:30am. They welcome all those who support press freedom to join them in London and around the world.

Assange has been confined in the high-security Belmarsh Prison since he was arrested on a US extradition request on 11 April 2019. This will be his fifth Christmas in Belmarsh.

The upcoming public hearing will be held before a panel of two judges who will review an earlier High Court decision taken by a single judge on 6 June 2023 which refused Mr Assange permission to appeal.

This decisive stage in Mr Assange’s appeals will determine one of two outcomes: whether Mr. Assange will have further opportunities to argue his case before the domestic (UK) courts, or whether he will have exhausted all appeals without a possibility for further appeal in the UK and thus enter the process of extradition. An application before the European Court of Human Rights remains a possibility.

Assange's campaign for freedom is supported by Amnesty International, the National Union of Journalists, Reporters Without Borders and virtually every civil rights, press freedom, and journalists' union in the world. More than 70 Australian federal politicians have called on the US to drop the prosecution. In the United States, the Congressional representatives calling for the case to be dropped grows steadily, currently H. Res 934 sponsored by Paul Gosar is gathering signatures from all sides of politics.

John Rees of the Free Assange campaign, said: “The US is attempting to convict Julian Assange under the 1917 Espionage Act. If they get away with it, they will have succeeded in redefining journalism as spying. Every journalist will be intimidated. Every newspaper and broadcaster will look at material critical of the government and feel significant pressure not to publish for fear of prosecution and imprisonment. This is the most important press freedom case of the 21st century and we need to ensure we don't lose any hard-won freedoms.”

Stella Assange, Julian’s wife, who he married while in prison, and who has been campaigning relentlessly for his freedom, said, “The last four and a half years have taken the most considerable toll on Julian and his family, including our two young sons. His mental health and physical state have deteriorated significantly. With the myriad of evidence that has come to light since the original hearing in 2019, such as the violation of legal privilege and reports that senior US officials were involved in formulating assassination plots against my husband, there is no denying that a fair trial, let alone Julian’s safety on US soil, is an impossibility were he to be extradited. The persecution of this innocent journalist and publisher must end.”

WikiLeaks has also supported their founder throughout this whole process, stressing the importance of this case for press freedom. Kristinn Hrafnsson, Editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks, said, “There is no press without the protection to operate freely. Julian’s case is a landmark moment; the UK needs to decide if it wishes to be a haven for free press or if it wishes to be complicit in the degradation of a core value of our democracy. This is the last chance for judges in the UK to halt this un-just extradition of an innocent man.”
More info about the court hearing and protest, scheduled to commence at 8.30am: https://t.co/uKuq7HDcbR

[Patrick Shannon @PatrickShann299]

I want to vote for a President who will free Julian Assange and also change the course of the nation.

[Patrick Shannon @PatrickShann299]

@RepJeffries And how about forming a cooperative agreement with the Problem Solvers Caucus and and showing true leadership become the next Speaker this coming week with a bipartisan approach.

[Patrick Shannon @PatrickShann299]

@DiedSuddenly_ I never understood Durrell’s “Avignon Quintet” till now,

[Patrick Shannon @PatrickShann299]

@SpeakerMcCarthy I applaud the bipartisan spirit. If you build on it you will certainly continue as Speaker and truly have a chance for great political acts of courage that could heal and unite the nation.

[Patrick Shannon @PatrickShann299]

@RepHuffman Congressman Huffman, is there no possibility to call on the Problem Solvers caucus to replace the Maga votes that McCarthy needs to avoid shutdown? Please call for a bipartisan solution and build upon it.

[Patrick Shannon @PatrickShann299]

@RaiderToken @RobertKennedyJr I met his father and his uncle.
I think it’s his mind.

[Patrick Shannon @PatrickShann299]

@RobertKennedyJr All your points are worthy serious consideration. In the last 35 years, we built serveral mountain ponds holding 500K to 2 MM gallons of water. They collect and hold the excess winter and spring rains. Nature heals this kind of work and makes it her own, in spite of the Court.

[Patrick Shannon @PatrickShann299]

@RobertKennedyJr @Dennis_Kucinich Excellent, a cooperative spirit and a unifier.

[Patrick Shannon @PatrickShann299]

@RobertKennedyJr I’m for trust and respect.

Many of those so glib to criticize you have certainly not read your work on Dr. Fauci. They have no purpose in their comments other than to undermine.
Real solutions involve direct participation. Let’s take this road and see where it goes.

[Patrick Shannon @PatrickShann299]

If the Democrats want to strike a chord of reconciliation and bipartisanship, @RepJeffries could offer to lend McCarthy the votes he needs to get down to business by asking half a dozen to vote “Present”.
Courtesy has legs. Something new.

[Patrick Shannon @PatrickShann299]

Hey @kevinomccarthy @RepJeffries How about we try something different. No capitulation to extremists. A bipartisan cooperative approach. Please just once give it a try.