{"id":45324,"date":"2019-04-12T16:08:37","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T21:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45324"},"modified":"2019-04-12T16:08:42","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T21:08:42","slug":"cascading-cat-litter%ef%bb%bf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45324","title":{"rendered":"Cascading Cat Litter\ufeff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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And so now Julian Assange of Wikileaks has been dragged out of his sanctuary<\/em> in the London embassy of Ecuador for failing to clean his cat\u2019s litter box. Have you ever cleaned a litter box? The way we always did it was to spread some newspaper \u2014 say, The New York Times<\/em> \u2014 on the floor, transfer the used cat litter onto it, wrap it into a compact package, and put it in the trash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was interesting to scan the Comments section of The Times\u2019s<\/em> stories about the Assange arrest: Times<\/em> readers uniformly presented themselves as a lynch mob out for Mr. Assange\u2019s blood. So much for the spirit of liberalism and The Old Gray Lady<\/em> who had published The Pentagon Papers<\/em> purloined by Daniel Ellsberg lo so many years ago. Reading between the lines in that once-venerable newspaper \u2014 by which I mean gleaning their slant on the news \u2014 one surmises that The Times<\/em> has actually come out against<\/em> freedom of the press, a curious attitude, but consistent with the neo-Jacobin zeitgeist in \u201cblue\u201d America these days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, how could anyone expect Mr. Assange to clean his cat\u2019s litter box when he was unable to go outside his sanctuary to buy a fresh bag of litter, and was denied newspapers this past year, as well as any other contact with the outside world?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

US government prosecutors had better tread lightly in bringing Mr. Assange to the sort of justice demanded by readers of\u00a0The New York Times<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 which is to say: lock him up in some SuperMax solitary hellhole and throw away the key. The show trial of Julian Assange on US soil, when it comes to pass, may end up being the straw that stirs America\u2019s Mickey Finn as a legitimate republic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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