The Assange Case Is Not About National Security, It Is About Narrative Control by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2021-07-09 at 01:33:43 )

The Assange Case Is Not About National Security, It Is About Narrative Control by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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Julian Assange once said, "The overwhelming majority of information is classified to protect political security, not national security."

As someone whose lifes work before his imprisonment was combing through documents of an often classified nature, he would have been in a prime position to know. He had have seen time and time again how a nations citizenry are not under the slightest threat from the secret information in the documents that had been leaked to him from around the world, but that it could damage the reputation of a politician or a government or its military.

As the persecution of the WikiLeaks founder continues to trudge on with the United Kingdom governments granting the Biden administration permission to appeal a declined extradition request, claiming that it can safely imprison Julian Assange without subjecting him to the draconian aspects of the United States of Americas prison system which caused the initial dismissal, it is good to keep in mind that this is being done entirely for the purpose of controlling public access to information that is inconvenient for the powerful.

The prosecution of Julian Assange under the Espionage Act is being touted by the United States government as a matter of national security; you can not simply allow journalists to publish classified information about the things its military forces are doing in the nations they occupy, because that could endanger American lives.

Leaving aside the fact that the Pentagon already admitted years ago that it could not find a single instance of lives being lost due to the publications for which Mr. Assange is currently being prosecuted, this case is not and has never been about national security. This case has always been about narrative control.

The United States government is not afraid that unauthorized publication of government secrets will lead to United States of Americans being killed, it is afraid it will lead to their knowing the truth.

The powerful understand that narrative control is everything, and that an entire globe-spanning empire depends on keeping the masses from having a lucid perception of what is really going on in the world. There is an unfathomable amount of power riding on their ability to continue doing this.

Mr. Julian Assange is not in Belmarsh Prison for doing something wrong, but for doing something right.

For trying to give the public information which will help them form a truth-based worldview so that they can make intelligent informed decisions about where they want to collectively steer society together.

Because the oligarchic empire depends on the ability to manipulate the way people think, act and vote to benefit the powerful, this was like handing someone who is being groomed by a sexual predator a guidebook of all of the psychological tactics that are being used.

This good deed could not go unpunished.

Nothing WikiLeaks published endangered the United States of American people, it endangered a globe-spanning empires ability to control our understanding of what is happening in the world. This was a most egregious offense as far as our rulers are concerned, and it could not be allowed to stand.

So an example is being made.

In less polite times Mr. Julian Assange would have been tortured and drawn and quartered in the town square while the king looked on sipping from a goblet of mead.

In the days of polite liberal democracy our rulers must remain hidden, and they must publicly torture dissidents to death in the name of national security concerns.

Beneath all the spin and excuses, this is all being done to show everyone what happens to you if you reveal embarrassing truths about the most powerful people on earth.

If you compromise their political security.

It is telling the world, "If you ever try to interfere in our control over the dominant narratives, this is what we will do to you."

And, whether we fully understand what is really happening or not, that is the message that is being ingested here.

Journalists who find themselves in a position to publish such things going forward will find themselves thinking thoughts about what happened to Mr. Julian Assange.

This is why it is so important that they do not win this case.

We cannot allow ourselves to be cowed away from the truth in this way, or else we are flying blind. We are unable to obtain information which will help us steer society in a truth-based direction.

The Julian Assange case receives so much attention not because of interest in one mans fate, but because of interest in everyones fate.

If humanity is ever to turn away from its self-destructive patterns and create a healthy world, it will necessarily need to do so guided by the light of truth and transparency.

As long as the powerful are able to keep us confused and deluded using propaganda and government secrecy, such a world will never come into being.

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