The Prosecution Of Julian Assange Is Infinitely Bigger Than Mr. Assange By Caitlin Johnstone!!!
(2019-04-27 at 12:41:51 )

The Prosecution Of Julian Assange Is Infinitely Bigger Than Mr. Assange by Caitlin Johnstone

Mr. Julian Assanges mother reported yesterday that the WikiLeaks founder has not been permitted any visitors during his detention in Belmarsh Prison, including from doctors and his lawyers.

Doctors who visited Mr. Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy have attested that he urgently needs medical care. Belmarsh is a maximum security prison sometimes referred to as "the United Kingdoms Guantanamo Bay".

And yet we are asked to believe that this has something to do with an alleged bail violation and a United States extradition request for alleged computer crimes carrying a maximum sentence of five years.

If you zoom out and listen to the less-informed chatter of the overt propagandists and the brainwashed rank-and-file western mass media consumers, you will also see that people believe this has something to do with Russia and rape allegations as well.

Actually, none of these things are true.

Mr. Assange is being imprisoned under draconian conditions for journalism, and for journalism only.

The Obama administration declined to prosecute him after WikiLeaks publication of the Manning leaks out of concern that doing so would endanger press freedoms, and the Obama administration did not have any more evidence at its disposal than the Donald Trump administration has now.

The "crime" Mr. Assange is accused of consists of nothing other than standard journalistic practices that investigative journalists engage in all the time, including source protection and encouraging the source to obtain more material.

The only thing that has changed is an increased willingness in the White House to prosecute journalists for practicing journalism, and there are an abundance of reasons to believe that he will be hit with far more serious charges once extradited to United States soil.

They’ are not going through all of this trouble for a bail violation and a five-year maximum sentence.

But if you zoom out even further, in the grand scheme of things this barely even has anything to do with Mr. Assange.

Sure, he has of course been a thorn in the side of those who operate the transnational western power alliance, and given the choice they would of course prefer him to be locked up or dead than free and alive.

But that is not what the corrupt influencers who are strangling our world are shooting for here.

They are making a grab for something much, much bigger. Mr. Assange just happens to be a stepping stone along the way.

As we ave discussed previously, the prosecution of Mr. Assange is really designed to set a legal precedent which will enable the United States government to imprison journalists for trying to hold it to account using journalism.

The reason you are seeing the phrase " Mr. Assange is not a journalist" bleated constantly by empire lackeys all around the world today is because they need a counter-narrative for the indisputable fact that this precedent poses a threat to journalists around the world, the argument being that since Mr. Assange is not a journalist (pure bullshit by the way), this is not setting a precedent for journalists.

As though their personal definition of what a "Real Journalist" is will be the one used by the United States government when determining whether or not to prosecute other people for doing things similar to what Mr. Assange did, instead of whatever definition happens to suit United States government agendas in that instance.

But in order to get the really, really big picture perspective of what these bastards are going for, we need to zoom out even further than that.

In the sci-fi novel Enders Game, the young protagonist applies a vicious beating to one of his bullies, killing him.

When asked why he did this by his handlers, the boy, who has been bred and raised to become a strategic savant, explains that he did it not out of malice toward the bully, nor only to win the fight, but to win all future fights as well.

If the kids at school see what savagery he is capable of and know he is not to be trifled with, he will not ever have to fight them.

If this sounds a bit sociopathic to you, that is because it is.

And, with the notable difference of the bully and victim roles being reversed, this is exactly the principle we are seeing exercised with Mr. Assange.

The entire world is watching what is being done to Mr. Assange currently.

No matter how propagandized you are, no matter how much you hate the man personally, you are watching that happen and learning a lesson from it.

And that lesson is, never do anything remotely like what that guy did, or you will meet the same fate.

This is the real goal of Mr. Assanges persecution, and it does not impact merely one Australian publisher in a United Kingdom jail cell, nor even merely the investigative journalists around the world who are interested in practicing the lost art of holding power to account using journalism, but everyone in the world who consumes news media.

And it works.

I know it works because it works on me.

I will say right here and now, if you have got information that incriminates the most powerful people in the world, keep it the hell away from me.

Give it to someone else, literally anyone else, because I myself am far too cowardly and have far too much to lose by getting involved in anything that could lead to me rotting in some overseas prison cell.

I have got kids.

I am in love.

I cannot and will not go down that path.

And if this is true for me I know for certain that it is true for countless others as well.

They have brutalized whistleblowers to the point that it has surely had a severe chilling effect on those who would otherwise become key leak sources, and now they are brutalizing the journalists who publish those leaks as well.

The odds of someone willing to blow the whistle on real power meeting a journalist who is willing to help them are rapidly diminishing to zero.

They are trying to win this fight against Mr. Assange in brutal fashion to ensure that they win all future fights as well.

Which is why it is absolutely stupid that this conversation so often gets fixated on Mr. Assange the man, whether it is smears or praise.

The other day I published a massive mega-article attacking the major smears about Mr. Assange I have encountered.

There are 27 of them in total so far, and I will be adding more soon.

This mountain of smears exists because instead of paying attention to the world-shaping dangers I just outlined which threaten to make it impossible to oppose the leaders of the United States-centralized empire who are marching us towards either extinction or dystopia, people are babbling about Mr. Assanges personality, or whether or not he cleaned up after his cat while at the embassy.

The flip side of this is people who fixate on Mr. Assange as a hero, which can of course help draw attention to his plight and therefore be of some benefit, but ultimately that is also missing the forest for the trees.

This is so very, very much bigger than Mr. Assange, and we need to oppose it for reasons that are far, far more significant than the individual characteristics of one man who, depending on what we have heard, we may or may not believe is a nice person.

Never lose sight of this: the intimidation of whistleblowers and leak publishers threatens to stop truth from informing the behaviors of our entire species, leaving only the whims of the most powerful to decide our fate.

The most powerful people are those most dedicated to pursuing power, those sociopathic enough to step on anyones head and do whatever it takes to secure as much control as possible over as many humans as possible.

That is who we are handing the steering wheel of our world to if we allow truth to be intimidated into silence.

And never lose sight of this, either: with the imprisonment and prosecution of Mr. Julian Assange, these same sociopathic oppressors have exposed themselves.

They have ripped off the friendly Big Brother mask and exposed the dark infernal entities which squirm and hiss underneath.

This sudden interest in the legal technicalities of bail protocol and journalistic source protection protocol happen to look exactly the same as prosecuting a journalist for publishing facts because that is exactly what is happening.

Do not ever let anyone gaslight you into believing otherwise, and do you not dare miss this rare opportunity to point out to your fellow humans how our oppressors have revealed their true nature.

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