Hero or Villain?
Free speech and Truth In Media Have Been Under Attack...Just in case you were too brain dead to notice...
Free Julian Assange should be the words being headlined all over the United States.
First off, Julian never harmed anyone. If anything he helped keep people from being harmed as he show cased the Manning damning exposure of the attack helicopter murdering people who never harmed anyone else too. The United States has become the most terroristic country on the planet making enemies everywhere killing innocent people accused of no crime who have harmed no one and who have families just like we do. If some other country invaded the US and dropped a bomb on your wedding party and killed your wife to be or some of your relatives doesn’t common sense say that you would be REALLY REALLY PISSED and might just want some revenge?? I shouldn’t even have to ask a question as obvious the answer to that should be!
There is no reason what so ever that Julian Assange should ever have had to spend one second in confinement ANYWHERE. What has been done to him is simply a reminder to the rest of us to sit down, shut up and kiss our ass. WE control what “news” is going to be put out to you plebes and we want to make sure that the news you see has been propagandized so that you will stand in the football stadiums and HOO RAH us as we terrorize the rest of the planet for the benefit of the military industrial complex and all who work for it.
And as most of you know….Julian Assange is an AUSTRALIAN citizen for all the good that does him. Australia “leaders” or should I say ass kissers of the control freaks that run “our” government have made no effort to stand up for his rights and get him back home.
You do know what a RIGHT is, don’t you? Well RIGHTS don’t just pertain to human beings residing in the good ol’ USA. They extend to every human being born on Earth, not just those of us who were born in the United States. Rights come from birth, and can only be INFRINGED upon by tyrants anywhere. So do the people of China have the RIGHT to self defense using a pistol or rifle? Yes, they do. However the control freaks of China have decided to INFRINGE on those rights and will not allow their slaves to have them. We’re lucky slaves. And since so many of the slaves in the US have them the “powers that be” are continually infringing on that right because guess why? They are afraid we might just pissed off enough at the shit they are dumping on us calling it perfume that we might just rise up and shoot their asses. Or preferably their heads. Wait…is there a difference?
So here is the RIGHT we have had laid down so everyone no matter how stupid you are can read them.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Julian Assange has the RIGHT to freedom of speech and the RIGHT to the freedom of press. PERIOD. END OF ARGUMENT. The psychopaths that fly attack helicopters and think they are god do not have the RIGHT to murder journalists with their fancy destructive toys wherever and whenever they fell like it. Is it that hard to understand?
The reason I bolded peaceably to assemble is because of January 6th coming to mind. I didn’t see anyone with guns there at all except the police that shoot women in the head that had harmed no one. And as of now is still a free and breathing MURDERER. I’ll save that one until later…
Recently University of Chicago’s John Mearsheimer summarized the situation, to which I agree 100%...
Assange is a journalist, and he did not break the law, as it is commonplace for journalists to publish classified information that is passed on to them by government insiders. If journalists in the United States were sent to jail for publishing classified material, the jails would be filled with many of America’s most famous reporters from newspapers like The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal.
But of course, that hardly ever happens. Simply put, newspapers publish classified material, and hardly anybody ever goes to jail. Why is this the case? What is the reason for this situation? Governments of every type, and this includes liberal democracies like the United States and Britain, sometimes go to great lengths to hide their actions or their policies from public view, which makes it almost impossible for the public to evaluate and criticize their behavior….
Thus, a rich tradition has developed over time in the United States, where insiders leak information about classified policies to journalists who publicize the information so that the public can evaluate it and push back hard against misguided policies.
The most famous case that illustrates this phenomenon involves the famous Pentagon Papers, which were a multi-volume study of the American decision to enter the war in Vietnam in the 1964-65 period and then escalated in subsequent years.
Daniel Ellsberg, who was an insider and had access to classified material, leaked the papers in 1971 to The New York Times, which subsequently published them. The story in those documents was starkly at odds with what the Johnson administration had been telling the American people about US policy in Vietnam.
By most accounts at the time, and certainly since then, both Ellsberg and The New York Times performed an important public service…. Ellsberg did not go to jail despite leaking classified information, although it did appear at the time that he might be sent to jail. Certainly, nobody at the New York Times went to jail because, again, journalists don’t go to jail for publishing classified information in the United States.
It is very important to remember that in the case of Julian Assange, he is not the equivalent of Ellsberg because he was not an insider who leaked the information. Chelsea Manning was the insider. Assange was the equivalent of the New York Times, and thus he should not be extradited….
Two final points. First, it is important to emphasize that nobody was hurt because of the documents that Assange published. Nobody’s life was put in danger because of what he posted on Wikileaks, and certainly nobody was killed….
Second, Assange has already paid a huge price for his actions. He has effectively been in prison for years. Sending him to the United States, where he is likely to be convicted and sentenced to a long jail term, would be a case of cruel and unusual punishment.
Being subjected to cruel and unusual punishment is a direct violation of THAT right that is the 8th Amendment in the Bill of RIGHTS.
Julian Assange is a hero, not a villain. It’s obvious to any critically thinking induvial.
"Considering that a good portion of the world believe their rights come from government" That is a problem that we need to make a major effort overcoming with questions asked of them so that they actually put the gray matter into some use other than a space filler. Those who consider him a traitor are complicit to murder. And as for your last sentence...that's the truth for sure. I say "home of the slave and land of the fee."
Considering that a good portion of the world believe their rights come from government, freedom is tenuous at best. And another large number regard Julian as a traitor. The illusion of being the home of the brave and free is such a joke.