Guest Post by Jim Kunstler
And so now Julian Assange of Wikileaks has been dragged out of his sanctuary in the London embassy of Ecuador for failing to clean his cat’s litter box. Have you ever cleaned a litter box? The way we always did it was to spread some newspaper — say, The New York Times — on the floor, transfer the used cat litter onto it, wrap it into a compact package, and put it in the trash.
It was interesting to scan the Comments section of The Times’s stories about the Assange arrest: Times readers uniformly presented themselves as a lynch mob out for Mr. Assange’s blood. So much for the spirit of liberalism and The Old Gray Lady who had published The Pentagon Papers purloined by Daniel Ellsberg lo so many years ago. Reading between the lines in that once-venerable newspaper — by which I mean gleaning their slant on the news — one surmises that The Times has actually come out against freedom of the press, a curious attitude, but consistent with the neo-Jacobin zeitgeist in “blue” America these days.
Anyway, how could anyone expect Mr. Assange to clean his cat’s litter box when he was unable to go outside his sanctuary to buy a fresh bag of litter, and was denied newspapers this past year, as well as any other contact with the outside world?
US government prosecutors had better tread lightly in bringing Mr. Assange to the sort of justice demanded by readers of The New York Times — which is to say: lock him up in some SuperMax solitary hellhole and throw away the key. The show trial of Julian Assange on US soil, when it comes to pass, may end up being the straw that stirs America’s Mickey Finn as a legitimate republic.
The bloodthirsty hysteria among New York Times readers is a symptom of the mass confusion sown by agencies of the US government itself when its own agents ventured to meddle in the national election of 2016 and then blame it on “the Russians.” As you will learn in the months ahead, it was The Times itself, and other corporate news organizations, who colluded with officers of the FBI, the Department of Justice, the CIA, and the Obama White House to concoct a phony narrative about Mr. Trump being in cahoots with Vladimir Putin, thus depriving Hillary Clinton of her “turn” in the White House; and then to join those agencies, and the grotesquely dishonest two-year investigation of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, in a cover-your-ass operation to hide their nefarious and criminal acts.
The USA has a lot of sorting to do and, of course, the new Democratic-led congress is already trying as hard as possible to prevent that from happening, the latest being their piling on Attorney General William Barr for testifying under oath that he believed the government ran a spying operation on candidate Donald Trump. The existence of FISA warrants establishes that as a fact, as does the million dollar payment by the CIA and US Defense Department to international man of mystery Stephan Halper, the secret agent man (posing as an Oxford professor) commissioned to entrap Trump campaign associate Carter Page. The ugly cascade of truth about that ploy, and many other seditious subterfuges run by US officials, will eventually bury the Jacobin “resistance” under more used cat litter than the Ecuadorian embassy staff could ever dream of.
The official charges so far against Julian Assange include skipping bail in the UK and supposedly attempting to assist the US soldier, then known as Bradley Manning, to find a password for entering certain US government computer data bases. The UK bail matter revolved around Assange’s extradition to Sweden on a bullshit rape charge that was subsequently dropped as having no merit by Swedish authorities. The US supposedly reserves the authority to lob additional charges at Mr. Assange, though they may face a lengthy extradition battle with his attorneys to lever him out of the UK and into US custody. In the meantime, Mr. Assange may receive a Nobel Prize as a symbol of a lone conscience standing up against the despotic deceits of the world’s deep states. Wouldn’t that gum up the works nicely? I’d like to see The New York Times’s front page headline on that story: Russian Colluder Wins Nobel Prize, Put on Trial in Federal Court. By then, the United States of America will be so completely gaslighted that it will pulsate in the darkness like a death star about to explode.
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It may be wishful thinking but I get the feeling that this issue blows up in THEIR faces. It’s going to be much harder than usual for the faux ‘journalists’ at both cnn and fox to pretend they support press freedom and stand idly by while Assange gets lynched. Just look at the pathetic slobs who are denouncing him at present; Mega Megan McShit and Geraldo Empty Vault Rivolta. When those two bought-and-paid-for establishment stooges unite you can be sure they’ll be thundering hoards opposing them. We may get the chance to back THEM down on this one.
Sadly the populace at large will swallow whatever swill the MSM concocts. Journalistic integrity is an oxymoron and they really don’t care about freedom of the press since the press no longer exists. It has been replaced by stenographers and propaganda spewers who merely copy and regurgitate what their script tells them. Those scripts are written by the denizens of the deep state, the political elite and media owners along with their corporate controllers.
The democrats will repetedly scream and shout their lies and story lines with volume and vociferousness and the media parrots will repeat them and nothing but noise and the Boobus Americanus will repeat what they’ve been programmed to say, no critical thinking necessary.
Assange will be more grist for the mill, if he makes it and makes it to court there will be a show trial, a kangaroo court and Assange will be disappeared.
Now we will see how far Trump has turned from his base:
During his campaign he praised Wikileaks countless times,
now he claims to “no nothing” like Sgt. Shultz of Hogan’s Heroes (an old TV show).
I wish this would be a wake up call to Americans, to highlight how hypocritical and sinister the MSM and the political elite are here, and in Britain. But that won’t happen until the price of gas goes to $5 a gallon.
It was the British deep state that colluded with the democrats, but the history books will claim it was the Russians that colluded with Trump, except that the Russians were so good at hiding their tracks, it could not be proven, by Mueller, the same guy who couldn’t figure out 911.
We are officially living in Superman’s Bizarro world:
“Me don’t belong in world of living people! Me don’t know difference between right and wrong — good and evil!”
“Me not ashamed of you no more, son! Keep up bad work and some day you will be worst student on whole planet!!! What a honor!!!”
The notion that the Nobel Committee, the same one that awarded Obama the Peace Prize, would award one to a man who was instrumental in showing how ridiculous it was to award Obama the Peace Prize, seems far-fetched. The Nobel Committee has shown itself to be politically correct at every turn. Doubtful they’ll do what’s right for a change. Assange is the opposite of politically correct; he stands for the truth, period. His real crime was to tell the truth about the war criminals, and war criminals infest the political class as well as the deep state, including the mass media. They’ll all be out for him. His only chances are a fair justice system either in the UK or the USA–and who’s naive enough to believe in that?–or a pardon from Trump. Assange may well be doomed.
Things that make you go Hmmmmm.
Managing the news cycle to take the Barr revelations off the screens?
BREXIT chaos, maybe also?
The world wide support for Assange may enable a gratuitous let him off the hook response just to be nice guys. Perhaps. Politicians blow with the wind as is well known. This is a well done review.
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