{"id":41727,"date":"2018-12-17T06:57:24","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T11:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41727"},"modified":"2018-12-17T06:57:24","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T11:57:24","slug":"twenty-one-thoughts-on-the-persecution-of-julian-assange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41727","title":{"rendered":"Twenty-One Thoughts On The Persecution Of Julian Assange"},"content":{"rendered":"

Twenty-One Thoughts On The Persecution Of Julian Assange<\/a><\/h3>\n
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1. I write a lot about the plight of Julian Assange for the same reason I write a lot about the Iraq invasion: his persecution, when sincerely examined, exposes undeniable proof that we are ruled by a transnational power establishment which is immoral and dishonest to its core.<\/p>\n

2. Assange started a leak outlet on the premise that corrupt and unaccountable power is a problem in our world, and that the problem can be fought with the light of truth. Corrupt and unaccountable power has responded by detaining, silencing and smearing him. The persecution of Assange has proved his thesis about the world absolutely correct.<\/p>\n

3. Anyone who offends the US-centralized empire will find themselves subject to a trial by media, and the media are owned by the same plutocratic class which owns the empire. To believe what mass media news outlets tell you about those who stand up to imperial power is to ignore reality.<\/p>\n

4. Corrupt and unaccountable power uses its political and media influence to smear Assange because, as far as the interests of corrupt and unaccountable power are concerned, killing his reputation is as good as killing him. If everyone can be paced into viewing him with hatred and revulsion, they\u2019ll be far less likely to take WikiLeaks publications seriously, and they\u2019ll be far more likely to consent to Assange\u2019s silencing and imprisonment. Someone can be speaking 100 percent truth to you, but if you\u2019re suspicious of him you won\u2019t believe anything he\u2019s saying. If they can manufacture that suspicion with total or near-total credence, then as far as our rulers are concerned it\u2019s as good as putting a bullet in his head.<\/p>\n

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Twenty-One Thoughts On The Persecution Of Julian Assange 1. I write a lot about the plight of Julian Assange for the same reason I write a lot about the Iraq invasion: his persecution, when sincerely examined, exposes undeniable proof that we are ruled by a transnational power establishment which is immoral and dishonest to its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[17039,259,13098,2001,3847,512,11034,23517,827,3142,880],"class_list":["post-41727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-empire","tag-imperial-power","tag-julian-assange","tag-mass-media","tag-media","tag-plutocrats","tag-transnational-power-establishment","tag-united-states","tag-us-empire","tag-wikileaks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41728,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41727\/revisions\/41728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}