Yves right here. The depth of the authorized and knowledge marketing campaign towards Julian Assange demonstrates the fragility of our soi-disant leaders. Despite the fact that he uncovered struggle crimes and soiled election dealings, they didn’t characterize risk to safety. However you’d by no means know that in the event you listened to the requires him to be drawn and quartered.
This put up seeks to clear up a few of the cultivated misinformation about Assange.
By Thomas Neuburger. Initially printed at God’s Spies
An enemy of the state is an individual accused of political crimes resembling treason. In designating individuals as enemies of the state, the federal government can notice the political repression of political opponents, resembling dissidents. A authorities can justify political repression as defending the nationwide safety of the nation and the nation.— Wikipedia right here
It’s time to speak about Julian Assange, once more. A call on his extradition from the torture of his UK imprisonment to the torture of a U.S. imprisonment — the place I consider he will likely be killed — may come any day.
From a authorized standpoint, his crimes are none.
False impression: Julian Assange is a “traitor” who ought to be delivered to trial in the USA. Correction: Assange just isn’t an American citizen, he has by no means lived within the US, and he doesn’t have any important ties to the US. He’s an Australian citizen who was residing and dealing in London when the US authorities opened its case towards him. The costs towards him are related to WikiLeaks’ publication of supplies within the public curiosity. Assange’s extradition would set a harmful precedent that would put different publishers and journalists around the globe in danger, no matter citizenship. Worryingly, the US authorities has additionally said that First Modification protections is not going to apply to Assange as a non-citizen.
False impression: Julian Assange is a whistleblower who leaked categorised data. Correction: Assange performed a special position to that of whistleblower; he didn’t leak categorised data himself, however he printed data that was leaked to him. The leaker, former Military analyst Chelsea Manning, already served greater than seven years in jail earlier than President Obama commuted her 35-year sentence, stating it was “very disproportionate relative to what different leakers have acquired”. If extradited to the US, Assange can be the primary writer tried underneath the Espionage Act, which lacks a public curiosity defence, that means anybody accused on this approach can not sufficiently defend themselves. He faces the potential for a staggering 175-year jail sentence.
However from the standpoint of the State, Assange is an enemy. Essentially the most notable of those crimes are listed under. (For others, just like the diplomatic cables leaks, see this glorious piece by Lee Fang.)
1. Many, even self-identified liberals, hate him for publishing leaked details about Hillary Clinton and the DNC throughout the 2016 election.
Right here’s Hillary Clinton in Might 2023. Notice the phrase “Russian Wikileaks” under.
Clinton stated she was assured that she was on observe to successful the election till two issues reversed her momentum: the discharge of marketing campaign chairman John Podesta’s emails, which had been allegedly stolen by Russian hackers, and Comey’s Oct. 28 letter to Congress that he had reopened the bureau’s investigation into her use of a personal e mail server. “I used to be on the way in which to successful till the mixture of Jim Comey’s letter on October 28 and Russian WikiLeaks raised doubts within the minds of people that had been inclined to vote for me however acquired scared off[.]
It’s a extensively held however factually baseless perception, that Russia labored with Wikileaks to hack and publish DNC information. When challenged, the Justice Division declined to current proof of its reality.
2. Those that run the State hate him for exposing how the U.S. makes struggle.
Watch the Wikileaks-made movie, Collateral Homicide, embedded on the high. (If the embed gained’t play, click on right here.)
It’s brutal to observe, however I problem you to do it anyway. It exhibits not simply homicide, however a particular sort of homicide — homicide from the protection of the air, homicide by males with machine weapons circling their targets like hunters with shotguns who stroll the sides of a trout pond, taking pictures at will, ready, strolling, then taking pictures once more, until all of the fish are lifeless.
The movie additionally exhibits struggle crimes, apparently par for the course, that implicate your complete construction of the U.S. army, as everybody concerned was appearing underneath orders. They sought permission to fireside, waited, then acquired it earlier than as soon as extra blasting away. The publication of this video, plus all of the Wikileaks publications that adopted, comprise the entire motive everybody within the U.S. who issues, everybody with energy, desires Julian Assange lifeless.
The Heavy Hand of the State
Everybody with energy additionally need him hated. Producing that hate is the method we’re watching at this time.
“Everybody” on this case consists of each main newspaper that printed and acquired awards for publishing Wikileaks materials; all main U.S. televised media shops; and all “respectable” U.S. politicians — together with, after all, Hillary Clinton, who was rumored (although unverifiably) to have stated, “Can’t we simply drone this man?”
It was revealed by Michael Isikoff that the CIA and the Trump administration contemplated his homicide:
Some senior officers contained in the CIA and the Trump administration even mentioned killing Assange, going as far as to request “sketches” or “choices” for assassinate him. Discussions over kidnapping or killing Assange occurred “on the highest ranges” of the Trump administration, stated a former senior counterintelligence official. “There gave the impression to be no boundaries.” The conversations had been a part of an unprecedented CIA marketing campaign directed towards WikiLeaks and its founder. The company’s multipronged plans additionally included in depth spying on WikiLeaks associates, sowing discord among the many group’s members, and stealing their digital units.
So please watch the movie, although it might break your coronary heart. The footage exhibits not solely homicide, however bloodlust and conscienceless brutality, a lot of it in actual fact that this grew to become one of many major causes Chelsea Manning leaked it within the first place. As she stated at her court-martial:
“Essentially the most alarming facet of the video for me, was the seemingly delight of bloodlust they [the pilots] appeared to have. They dehumanized the people they had been partaking with, and appeared to not worth human life in referring to them as ‘lifeless bastards,’ and congratulating one another on the flexibility to kill in massive numbers.”
Our bodies Pile on Our bodies
That is achieved in our identify, to “maintain us secure.” This continues to be achieved daily that we and our allies are at “struggle” within the Center East.
Our bodies pile on our bodies as this continues. The least we are able to do, actually the least, is to witness and acknowledge their deaths. And forestall the homicide of Julian Assange for the crime of exposing these murderers for who they’re. It’s nonetheless not too late. For the newest as of this writing, please watch this.
(That is an expanded model of a beforehand printed article.)
