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Caitlin Johnstone
Title: Assange Is Doing His Most Important WorkYet
Published: 2022-06-17
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBCPUIGhxEs
Title: Assange Is Doing His Most Important WorkYet
Published: 2022-06-17
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBCPUIGhxEs
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assange is doing his most important work yet british home secretary preeti patel has authorized the extradition of wikileaks founder julian assange to the united states to be tried under the espionage act in a case which seeks to set a legal precedent for the prosecution of any publisher or journalist anywhere in the world who reports inconvenient truths about the u.s empire assange's legal team will appeal the2/15
decision reportedly with arguments that will include the fact that the cia spied on him and plotted his assassination it will likely take a few days before the 14-day appeal deadline and the appeal will include new information that we weren't able to bring before the courts previously information on how julian's lawyers were spied on and how there were plots to kidnap and kill julian from within the3/15
cia assange's brother gabriel shipton told reuters on friday and thank goodness assange's willingness to resist washington's extradition attempts benefit us all from his taking political asylum in the ecuadorian embassy in 2012 until british police forcibly dragged him out in 2019 to his fighting u.s prosecutors in the courtroom tooth and claw during his incarceration in belmarsh prison assange's fight against u.s extradition benefits us not just because4/15
the empire's war against truth harms our entire species and not just because he cannot receive a fair trial under the espionage act but because his refusal to bow down and submit forces the empire to overextend itself into the light and show us what it's really made of washington london and canberra are colluding to imprison a journalist for telling the truth the first with its active extradition5/15
attempts the second with its loyal facilitation of those attempts and the third with its silent complicity in allowing an australian journalist to be locked up and persecuted for engaging in the practice of journalism by refusing to lie down and forcing them to come after him assange has exposed some harsh realities of which the public has largely been kept unaware the fact that london and canberra are6/15
complying so obsequiously with washington's agendas even while their own mainstream media outlets decry the extradition and even while all major human rights and press freedom watchdog groups in the western world say assange must go free shows that these are not separate sovereign nations but member states of a single globe-spanning empire centralized around the us government because assange stood his ground and fought them more attention is7/15
being brought to this reality by standing his ground and fighting them assange has also exposed the lie that the so-called free democracies of the western world support the free press and defend human rights the u.s uk and australia are colluding to extradite a journalist for exposing the truth even as they claim to oppose tyranny and autocracy even as they claim to support world press freedoms and8/15
even as they loudly decry the dangers of government-sponsored disinformation because assange stood his ground and fought them it will always reek of hypocrisy when u.s presidents like joe biden say things like the free press is not the enemy of the people far from it at your best your guardians of the truth because assange stood his ground and fought them people will always know british prime ministers9/15
like boris johnson are lying when they say things like media organizations should feel free to bring important facts into the public domain because assange stood his ground and fought them more of us will understand that they are being deceived and manipulated when australian prime ministers like anthony albanese say things like we need to protect press freedoms in law and ensure every australian can have their voice10/15
heard and don't prosecute journalists just for doing their jobs because assange stood his ground and fought them u.s secretaries of state like anthony blinken will have a much harder time selling their schtick when they say things like on world press freedom day the united states continues to advocate for press freedom the safety of journalists worldwide and access to information on and offline a free and independent11/15
press ensures the public has access to information knowledge is power because assange stood his ground and fought them uk home secretaries like preeti patel will be seen as the frauds they are when they say things like the safety of journalists is fundamental to our democracy extraditing a foreign journalist for exposing your war crimes is as tyrannical an agenda as you could possibly come up with the12/15
us uk and australia colluding toward this end shows us that these are member states of a single empire whose only values are domination and control and that all of its posturing about human rights is pure facade assange keeps exposing the true face of power there is in fact a strong argument to be made that even after all these years since the 2010 leaks for which he13/15
is currently being prosecuted assange is doing his most important work yet as important as his wikileaks publications were and are none of them exposed the depravity of the empire as much as forcing them to look us in the eye and tell us they'll extradite a journalist for telling the truth assange accomplished this by planting his feet and saying no even when every other possible option would14/15
have been easier and more pleasant even when it was hard even when it was terrifying even when it meant being locked away silenced smeared hated unable to fight back against his detractors unable to live a normal life unable to hold his children unable even to feel sunlight on his face his very life casts light on all the areas where it is most sorely needed we all