Julian Assange Is Doing His Most Important Work Yet by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2022-06-18 at 03:09:50 )

Julian Assange Is Doing His Most Important Work Yet by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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British Home Secretary Priti Patel has authorized the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States to be tried under the Espionage Act in a case which seeks to set a legal precedent for the prosecution of any publisher or journalist, anywhere in the world, who reports inconvenient truths about the United States empire.

Mr. Assanges legal team will appeal the decision, reportedly with arguments that will include the fact that the Central Intelligence Agency spied on him and plotted his assassination.

"It will likely be a few days before the (14-day appeal) deadline and the appeal will include new information that we were not able to bring before the courts previously. Information on how Julian lawyers were spied on, and how there were plots to kidnap and kill Julian from within the CIA," Mr. Assanges brother Gabriel Shipton told Reuters on Friday.

Assange appeal against extradition to include reported assassination plot.-Reuters (Reuters) June 17, 2022

And thank goodness.

Julian Assanges willingness to resist Washington,D.C.s extradition attempts benefit us all, from his taking political asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy in 2012 until British police forcibly dragged him out in 2019, to his fighting United States prosecutors in the courtroom tooth and claw during his incarceration in Belmarsh Prison.

Mr. Julian Assanges fight against United States extradition benefits us not just because the empires war against truth harms our entire species and not just because he cannot receive a fair trial under the Espionage Act, but because his refusal to bow down and submit forces the empire to overextend itself into the light and show us all what it is really made of.

Washington,D.C., London and Canberra are colluding to imprison a journalist for telling the truth: the first with its active extradition attempts, the second with its loyal facilitation of those attempts, and the third with its silent complicity in allowing an Australian journalist to be locked up and persecuted for engaging in the practice of journalism.

By refusing to lie down and forcing them to come after him, Mr. Julian Assange has exposed some harsh realities of which the public has largely been kept unaware.

The fact that London and Canberra are complying so obsequiously with Washington,D.C.s agendas, even while their own mainstream media outlets decry the extradition and even while all major human rights and press freedom watchdog groups in the western world say Mr. Julian Assange must go free, shows that these are not separate sovereign nations but member states of a single globe-spanning empire centralized around the United States government. Because Mr. Julian Assange stood his ground and fought them, more attention is being brought to this reality.

The free press is not the enemy of the people - far from it.-President Biden (POTUS) May 2, 2022

By standing his ground and fighting them, Mr. Julian Assange has also exposed the lie that the so-called free democracies of the western world support the free press and defend human rights.

The United States, United Kingdom and Australia are colluding to extradite a journalist for exposing the truth even as they claim to oppose tyranny and autocracy, even as they claim to support world press freedoms, and even as they loudly decry the dangers of government-sponsored disinformation.

Because Mr. Julian Assange stood his ground and fought them, it will always reek of hypocrisy when United States presidents like Joe Biden say things like, "The free press is not the enemy of the people - far from it. At your best, you are guardians of the truth."

Because Mr. Julian Assange stood his ground and fought them, people will always know British prime ministers like Boris Johnson are lying when they say things like, "Media organisations should feel free to bring important facts into the public domain."

Because Mr. Julian Assange stood his ground and fought them, more of us will understand that they are being deceived and manipulated when Australian prime ministers like Anthony Albanese say things like "We need to protect press freedom in law and ensure every Australian can have their voice heard," and "Do not prosecute journalists for just doing their jobs."

Because Mr. Julian Assange stood his ground and fought them, United States secretaries of state like Antony Blinken will have a much harder time selling their schtick when they say things like "On World Press Freedom Day, the United States continues to advocate for press freedom, the safety of journalists worldwide, and access to information on and offline. A free and independent press ensures the public has access to information. Knowledge is power."

Because Mr. Julian Assange stood his ground and fought them, United Kingdom home secretaries like Priti Patel will be seen for the frauds they are when they say things like "The safety of journalists is fundamental to our democracy."

With this clear support for press freedom, new United Kingdom Home Secretary patel4witham has no choice but to block the extradition of Assange.-WikiLeaks (wikileaks) July 25, 2019

Extraditing a foreign journalist for exposing your war crimes is as tyrannical an agenda as you could possibly come up with.

The United States, United Kingdom and Australia colluding toward this end shows us that these are member states of a single empire whose only values are domination and control, and that all its posturing about human rights is pure facade.

Mr. Julian Assange keeps exposing the true face of power.

There is in fact a strong argument to be made that even all these years after the 2010 leaks for which he is currently being prosecuted, Mr. Julian Assange is doing his most important work yet.

As important as his WikiLeaks publications were and are, none of them exposed the depravity of the empire as much as forcing them to look us in the eye and tell us they will extradite a journalist for telling the truth.

Mr. Julian Assange accomplished this by planting his feet and saying "No," even when every other possible option would have been easier and more pleasant.

Even when it was hard.

Even when it was terrifying.

Even when it meant being locked away, silenced, smeared, hated, unable to fight back against his detractors, unable to live a normal life, unable to hold his children, unable even to feel sunlight on his face.

His very life casts light on all the areas where it is most sorely needed.

We all owe this man a tremendous debt.

The least we can do is try our best to get him free.

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