Authored by Raul Ilargi Meijer via The Automatic Earth blog,
47 years ago in American Pie, Don McLean talked about The Day The Music Died. Or of course the music didn’t really die, but at the same time it did. “The three mean I admired most, the father, son and the holy ghost, they caught the last train for the coast, the day the music died.”
Back then you could still have claimed the country merely lost its innocence. And you could have said the same in 1861 or 1914 or 1941. Today, not to take anything away from music, or the song, something much bigger died. America itself died, not just its music or innocence. America didn’t just lose its innocence, it pled guilty.
No doubt most of you would proclaim that’s a gross exaggeration, and an insane hyperbole, but you would all be wrong, sorry. There’s no way back this time.
America, the United States, with all its initial prejudice and lethal screw-ups, was founded as a place where people could direct their own lives without having to fear any other party, let alone a government, that would stand in their way while they did it. And a big part of not having to fear one’s government is not having to fear that government purposely lying to its citizens. The Founding Fathers, for all their faults, got that right. And today erases all of that in one fell swoop.
That is what died today.
Or, you know, it may have died much earlier, and a thousand times before as well, but with the arrest in London of Julian Assange, an Australian citizen wanted by the US Deep State, a myriad of strands connecting, and connected to a bloated dying corpse came together. And now we know there is no salvation possible. Today made it all terminal. America is no more. Or it is no longer what they tell you it stands for, whichever comes first.
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And it’s not just America, mind you. ‘The UK is a serious country’, PM Theresa May said today when addressing Brexit. No it’s not, Theresa, it’s a banana republic hopelessly stuck in a spaghetti western and it no longer knows the rule of law. It sells people to the highest bidder in a meat market, be they Windrush, refugees from her Majesty’s wars in Libya, or just white and poor English, or Julian Assange.
The UK is a parody on a country, it’s a sordid piece of third rate slapstick. It kills people while trying to maintain the image of being a serious country. You know, whatever that is?! The British judge Assange faced today was bleeding mocking him, the arguably greatest journalist of this century and millennium. A serious country?
Julian Assange Branded ‘Narcissist’ By Judge As He Faces US Extradition
Julian Assange has been branded a “narcissist” by a judge as he faces both a UK prison sentence and being extradited to the US. The Metropolitan Police said the Australian hacker was initially detained at the Ecuadorian embassy for failing to surrender to court. He had been summoned in 2012 over an alleged rape in Sweden, where authorities are now considering reopening their investigation into those allegations.After arriving at a London police station on Thursday morning, the 47-year-old was additionally arrested on behalf of the US under an extradition warrant.
Mr Assange was taken to Westminster Magistrates’ Court and found guilty of breaching bail hours later. He faces a jail sentence of up to a year. He denied the offence, with lawyers arguing that he had a “reasonable excuse” could not expect a fair trial in the UK as its purpose was to “secure his delivery” to the US. District Judge Michael Snow described the defence as “laughable”, adding: “Mr Assange’s behaviour is that of a narcissist who cannot get beyond his own selfish interests. He hasn’t come close to establishing ‘reasonable excuse’.” He remanded Mr Assange in custody ahead of a future sentencing hearing at Southwark Crown Court.
And where was opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn when this all went on? Haven’t seen him, other then in the afternoon when he was ‘discussing’ Brexit details with May in Parliament on day 1021 since the Brexit referendum, while he should have been out in the street denouncing May and protecting Assange at the loudest voice there is.
Screw you, Jeremy, you’re a pathetic loser. No matter what else you do, there are times when you have to stand up and be counted. You were nowhere to be seen, you coward. Screw you again. And all of your family. A curse on y’all. You had a chance to be counted, and you whimped out so enormously only an elephant could whimp out more. Today was your day, and you were a no-show, again.
But don‘t you mind me, I’m not British and I’m not one of those ass-hat followers of you. I’m just someone calling you a coward. So, you know, your campaign team can keep polling and intervene as soon as they see too many ass-hats become concerned about Assange. Until then, who cares, it’s all in the numbers. It’s not as if you have any principles anyway. If you can screw up Brexit there’s no reason why you couldn’t screw up Assange’s situation as well.
As for the Donald, man, it’s just 6 days ago that I issued a well-meant warning to you, to tell you that those who are after Assange are the same people who are after you.
And now you’ve given those very people a huge stage to execute their anti-Assange and thereby their anti-Trump messages from. Mr. Trump, you’re helping Brennan and Clapper and Comey and their ilk persecute the only person who could ever stand up to them. And who did that better than you ever did. Because he’s so much smarter.
And where are all the media? Where are all the other governments? Where is the European Union? Where is Australia? Yes, Ecuador took away Assange’s citizenship too today, like that’s a piece of candy or something. Asylum, citizenship, they can be bought and sold whenever a bell tolls.
Why do we have international law anyway if nobody abides by any of it? You can’t just grant someone asylum, and then a citizenship, and then rescind it when you like on a rainy morning when your medication runs out or they’re on to you for blatant fraud, Lenin Moreno. Do that and all international law becomes null and void. Hereby.
Pardon me, I’ve just been, like hopefully many people are, so sad and angry and despondent today, all day. The entire world watched the music die today, and never realized it, and a man much smarter and braver and real than any of us is out there paying for our sins, and we have no media left to tell us an honest story about it, and George Orwell is laughing somewhere out there.
And I am still stupid enough to think that we can do better.
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America, whatever it was or meant, died on April 9th, 1865 – when this “nation” ceased being a consensual union of states. It’s that simple. All the ills that were unleashed later flowed from the solidification and centralization of that Federal Leviathan. My thanks as a proud Southron goes out to all you dumbass, puritanical, morally superior Yankees. I sincerely hope you are thrilled when your daughter brings home her fiancee, Jamal ( maybe Sheeitavius ) to meet you. Soon this ‘roided up banana republic will try a man who was never subject to Her laws for breaking them. What a day!
Gaius, sir, just a slight correction of your otherwise outstanding factual comment. I believe the correct term is damyankee, one word; inseparable. Just another Sunday in the south. We still smell the powder burning and reckon we always will. Most Boobus Americanus will never realize that we are all Palestinians now, under the same merciless, tyrannical boot of the hideous Zionist vampire squid.
I feel bad for him, but if this was the straw that broke the camel’s back in his world he’s missed a whole lot of history in the last 47 years.
It will be interesting to me to see who benefits from Assange’s arrest.
I am clueless as far as who was behind the arrest, but it has the fingerprints of the deep states taking of Stone’s high profile maximum impact tactical overkill all over it.
I’ve read from some who say this takedown was a final desperate attempt by the deep state to take down Trump, after “no collusion” became a reality.
I am looking forward to the upcoming posts that may shed light on this travesty of justice, to explain what’s going on where this is going.
There are more “dirty” hands involved than the ones who detained/arrested/kidnapped him, and until we know more, we know what we know . . . that the world as we know it is a fascist state, owned and controlled by men/women/its who will do the same to anyone who counters the officially official officiation of “information” (dis-,mis-, un-, non-, whatever). The free press is free to lie at will and claim protection behind free speech while endorsing the curtailment of the same right for everyone else. They cry “treason” for something that did not happen but claim Assange is no reporter, even though he has revealed thousands of pages of information that reveal what actually DID HAPPEN in regards to hundreds of events, some of which are actually, really, truly, madly, deeply, honestly TREASON.
I don’t think his arrest is the death of America. I think it is just one more proof of the death that happened a long time ago.
Tucker’s take is right on
Why now?
another good one
Fuck Amerika. I have nothing in common with it anymore. Now I only want to see it punished for its massive, never-ending criminality & degeneracy.
Raul concludes his article by saying: “And I am still stupid enough to think that we can do better.”
Bad news Raul, you are stupid if you think we can do better. That majority of people in the US don’t give a shit about Assange and Wikileaks. The Attorney General of the US could go on national TV and shoot Assange in the head tomorrow and most people would: 1) not care or 2) cheer the spectacle.
The number of citizens who truly think for themselves in this country is miniscule. And that is why TPTB can continue butchering the Constitution while citizens cheer them on.
End game.
The Liberal and conservative now both have someone they can hate because of his “so called” Russian ties; Julian Assange. Because of this we can all pour out our hatred on this man, sentence him to life in prison and all move on with our life.
This has apparently happened because the deep state has morphed into a kindly old woman, who tugged at Trumps heart strings and convinced Trump that our poor country could not survive the meltdown if he were to continue draining the swamp. His eyes lit up when it was also told him that by forgetting all about this draining of the swamp, the economy would in appearance, chug right along until well after he leaves office.
Great, he replied, I win again! Lets get this b*st*rd and place on him a plane to the FUSA and start the witch hunt.
And so, it is looking like with this one act against Assange, the draining was replaced by flooding the swamp and the hope one had in an America’s greatness being restored was finally put aside in the interest of making a deal.
One day later, it does appear that truly, today was the day the music died.