Yves right here. The depth of the authorized and knowledge marketing campaign towards Julian Assange demonstrates the fragility of our soi-disant leaders. Regardless that he uncovered conflict crimes and soiled election dealings, they didn’t symbolize menace to safety. However you’d by no means know that for those who listened to the requires him to be drawn and quartered.
This publish seeks to clear up a number 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 equivalent to treason. In designating individuals as enemies of the state, the federal government can notice the political repression of political opponents, equivalent to dissidents. A authorities can justify political repression as defending the nationwide safety of the nation and the nation.
— Wikipedia here
It’s time to speak about Julian Assange, once more. A choice on his extradition from the torture of his UK imprisonment to the torture of a U.S. imprisonment — the place I consider he might 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 dropped at trial in america. Correction: Assange just isn’t an American citizen, he has by no means lived within the US, and he doesn’t have any vital 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 fees towards him are linked 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 acknowledged that First Modification protections won’t apply to Assange as a non-citizen.
False impression: Julian Assange is a whistleblower who leaked labeled info. Correction: Assange performed a special position to that of whistleblower; he didn’t leak labeled info himself, however he printed info 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 obtained”. If extradited to the US, Assange can be the primary writer tried beneath the Espionage Act, which lacks a public curiosity defence, which means anybody accused on this manner can’t 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 beneath. (For others, just like the diplomatic cables leaks, see this excellent piece by Lee Fang.)
1. Many, even self-identified liberals, hate him for publishing leaked details about Hillary Clinton and the DNC through the 2016 election.
Right here’s Hillary Clinton in May 2023. Be aware the phrase “Russian Wikileaks” beneath.
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 non-public e mail server. “I used to be on the best way 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 bought scared off[.]
It’s a broadly held however factually baseless perception, that Russia labored with Wikileaks to hack and publish DNC knowledge. When challenged, the Justice Division declined to present evidence of its truth.
2. Those that run the State hate him for exposing how the U.S. makes conflict.
Watch the Wikileaks-made movie, Collateral Homicide, embedded on the prime. (If the embed gained’t play, click on here.)
It’s brutal to look at, however I problem you to do it anyway. It exhibits not simply homicide, however a particular form of homicide — homicide from the security 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 conflict crimes, apparently par for the course, that implicate the whole construction of the U.S. army, as everybody concerned was performing beneath orders. They sought permission to fireplace, waited, then bought it earlier than as soon as extra blasting away. The publication of this video, plus all the Wikileaks publications that followed, 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 in the present day.
“Everybody” on this case consists of each main newspaper that printed and obtained 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 murder:
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 appeared 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 could break your coronary heart. The footage exhibits not solely homicide, however bloodlust and conscienceless brutality, a lot of it in truth that this grew to become one of many principal causes Chelsea Manning leaked it within the first place. As she said 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 participating 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 giant numbers.”
Our bodies Pile on Our bodies
That is finished in our identify, to “maintain us protected.” This continues to be finished day-after-day that we and our allies are at “war” in the Middle 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 most recent as of this writing, please watch this.
(That is an expanded model of a beforehand printed article.)