"If they extradite Julian and kill him in America, it is the death knell of jurisprudence in this country," he said. "[Assange's case] has nothing to do with the law, it's not a legal proceeding at all. It's a joke and it's disgusting... It makes me ashamed to be English."

"Julian Assange in America getting a fair trial? Zero chance," he said. "He didn't commit any espionage, he reported on things that were going on - they happened to be war crimes."

There's an extradition treaty between the UK and the United States, which has a number of articles. The fourth article says that no extradition proceeding should even start if there is a political motivation to it. This isn't political? Of course it is.

"He's been in prison for seven years now, in the Ecuadorian Embassy and now in this maximum security place in Belmarsh," where "they've almost killed him," Waters said. "He's really sick... Julian could hardly remember his own name."

Despite calls from Australian lawmakers for UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson to block Assange's extradition earlier this week, Waters said the PM is much too beholden to Washington to follow through on the request.

Boris? Wouldn't it be wonderful if we found even one iota of British bulldog in Boris Johnson, but unfortunately he is 100 percent American poodle.

"I suspect [Jonhson] will stay in his kennel and do what he's bloody well told by his masters across the Atlantic," he said.

Ultimately, Waters concluded, the persecution of Julian Assange is a "way of exerting... authority, so that nobody will report on anything that's inconvenient to power ever again."

Any reporting on wrongdoing by any armed forces anywhere in the world, I think it's a moral obligation and duty [for journalists], and it's a duty of the government to do something about it, not try and kill them!

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