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Assange
Mainstream media has reported little
about the arrest and likely extradition of Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange,
who was literally sold out for the proverbial 30 pieces of silver (or in this
case it was a $4.2 billion
IMF loan to Ecuador approved just last month)! Vice
President Mike Pence was in Ecuador
last June to push a quid pro quo with the
recently elected Ecuadorian president, Lenin Moreno: You hand us Assange and
we'll make sure you get your loan.
It was only a matter of time.
The crux of the
issue, as laid out by many, is that Assange is being charged for doing what
journalists are supposed to do…
“In
a divided Washington, few causes have as much bipartisan support as prosecuting
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange,” reports The Associated Press.
As
you might have heard, late last week the feds accidentally revealed they’ve
prepared secret charges against Assange — who’s feared extradition to the
United States for years and since 2012 has been hiding out inside Ecuador’s
embassy in London.
To
begin with, please pause a moment to ponder the term “secret charges” — the
sort of thing we might normally associate with Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia.
Back
to the AP story, and the bipartisan bile: “Many Democrats seethed when the
radical transparency activist humiliated Hillary Clinton by publishing the
content of her campaign chairman’s inbox. Most Republicans haven’t forgiven
Assange for his publication of U.S. military and intelligence secrets. Much of
the American media establishment holds him in contempt as well.”
As Assange was dragged
out, it’s worth noting, he was holding in his hand a book by Gore Vidal, History of the National Security State.
Assange was indicted by the US
Attorney's Eastern District of Virginia's "espionage court" on charges of conspiracy to hack a government computer. As
whistleblower John Kiriakou Tweeted today, his chance of a fair trial in that court is virtually
none. His chance of being extradited by a UK all too eager to please its
former colony is virtually 100 percent.
The conspiracy charge is far less
than many expected, carrying a possible jail term of a mere five years. This is
likely to ease the way - and provide cover - for the UK to extradite Assange to
the US where there is little doubt additional charges - perhaps including
espionage with a possible death sentence - will be added to the mix.
As The Washington Post reported in 2013, “If the Justice Department indicted
Assange, it would also have to prosecute The New York Times and other
news organizations and writers who published classified material, including The Washington Post and Britain’s Guardian newspaper.”
Many on the Left who once lauded the
publication of the Pentagon Papers in 70s [stolen papers which indicted the
secret bombings our nation performed in Viet Nam] seem to want to hang Assange
for doing the same today as he exposed a lot of politicians for their own dirty
laundry, especially Hillary Clinton.
Indeed, it will not surprise me [as I posted on twitter and Yahoo
yesterday] if Assange has even more damaging material tucked away that he can
he use as his “get-out-of-jail-free” bargaining chip.
In the pre-trial stage - which
has begun today - we will see a distortion of facts in attempt to establish
that the charges he faces have nothing to do with a free press or an
independent media. Already national security state apologists are dutifully
repeating claims that this is only about hacking. He is being charged over
hacking, they say, because he is accused of helping Pvt. Manning get secure
documents into the hands of Wikileaks.
I’m willing to bet few journalists or
media will come to his defense uttering the usual BS that he wasn’t “one of
them.’ Indeed, a few of them already
have smeared him on twitter and on their own media [why bother naming them
here]. One of the few which has publicly
rallied to his cause is a long-time freedom warrior, the Rutherford Inst.
The Rutherford Institute has denounced the U.S. government’s
attempts to extradite and prosecute Wikileaks founder Julian Assange for his
part in disclosing information relating to government misconduct that is within
the public’s right to know.
The government’s prosecution of
journalists and whistleblowers began under the Obama Administration and has
continued under the Trump Administration. As Bloomberg News reported:
“Eric Holder, attorney general under President Barack Obama, has prosecuted
more government officials for alleged leaks under the World War I-era Espionage
Act than all his predecessors combined, including law-and-order Republicans
John Mitchell, Edwin Meese and John Ashcroft. The indictments of six
individuals under that spy law have drawn criticism from those who say the
president’s crackdown chills dissent, curtails a free press and betrays Obama’s
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What are your
thoughts? Feel free to leave a comment
below…
Bruce ‘the Poor Man’
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individual freedom!
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2 comments:
I sure hope he has some big dirt on Hillary!
The average guy on the street has no clue whether to love or hate this man as most are ill informed on most topics but I think you gave us insights ignored by mainstream media which no longer practices good journalism today. At least you provided some who, why, and where...
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