Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
British courts have cooperated with Washington’s police state for years by keeping Julian Assange in captivity while pretending to give him every benefit of the doubt in the extradition case. Of course, the law is clear that he should not be turned over to revengeful Washington, but Britain is not independent of Washington and is merely going through motions that keep Assange in captivity.
It seems clear that Washington and London are conspiring to break the spirit of those Americans and British who still hope that their governments are capable of delivering justice. A demoralized people are easier coerced into tyranny, which is where the entirety of the Western world is headed.
So much is already lost. One would have thought that the US and British media would have been fierce in Assange’s defense if only in order to protect its power to hold government accountable and to protect itself. After all, the New York Times and The Guardian and other news organizations published the documents that Wikileaks released, for which Assange is in captivity. Yet until recently when the New York Times, Guardian, and a few other news organizations made a weak request that the extradition case against Assange be dropped, the US and British media were faithful carriers of the official narrative that Assange was a rapist, a Russian spy, and a hacker of US national security secrets, such as Washington’s hidden war crimes and deceit of its allies.
Washington is after Assange for more than revenge. They are teaching journalists a lesson that they are no longer allowed to hold government accountable when the government commits crimes. In other words, the criminalization of government is being institutionalized. That is what the Assange case is about. Justice along with truth is being eliminated from the Western world.
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I saw “death of justice” and immediately thought “death of a Justice”. They didn’t kill another Supreme Court Justice did they? Not yet? Clarence Thomas better not go to any democrat’s ranch.
Yes, justice and truth are being eliminated. Ask the Jan. 6 political prisoners and Trump. Assange is a bad example to hold up in support of that proposition, however. In time of war he would be shot as a traitor to his country. Only peace allows the 1st amendment into consideration. It is hard sometimes to reconcile free speech and national security. Depends on ones agenda. The Pentagon Papers had no security issues when released because the war it referenced was already over. Assange hurt national security here and now. On June 1, 1944, which was more important, free speech or national security?
National Security = fedgov Job Security
The manufactured crisis of neo-con Iraqi lies doesn’t erase the Bill of God given Rights. Open and transparent govt done nothing wrong? Then nothing to hide from the voters.
Mr. H, since you unhid, the quality of Leviathan rhetoric has become cringe and dated. Consider an erudite Dr. Jekyll who deftly dead agents the Windsor Brit Empire as our break-away Constitutional Republic’s real problem. Could you at least try?
An example: “Blast that Australian subject Assange. He embarrassed our 9-11/Anthrax/WMD false flag occupation of the biggest regional oil exporter and is making our MIC MSM have to respond to a decade of war crimes like that dual-citizen, a-hole Ellsberg did in 1971.
Because J.A. prevented putting the spotlight on UK’s S.A.S. mosque bombings to foment a Shia/Sunni civil war, now those cheapskate Anglos can “good cop” onto their old colonial property with falsely mannered concern and free corned-beef hash.” “Can’t we just drone this guy… and the rest of his inbred, bottom-licking meddlers?”
Assange is an Australian citizen. Revealing American war crimes is not being “a traitor to his country”. Your ignorance and stupidity are showing.
If we don’t join together, they will pick us off one by one. Surprised Tucker is still vertical