{"id":45334,"date":"2019-04-13T08:24:28","date_gmt":"2019-04-13T13:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45334"},"modified":"2019-04-13T08:25:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-13T13:25:00","slug":"the-medias-7-years-of-lies-about-julian-assange-wont-stop-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45334","title":{"rendered":"The Media\u2019s 7 Years of Lies about Julian Assange Won\u2019t Stop Now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Media\u2019s 7 Years of Lies about Julian Assange Won\u2019t Stop Now\t<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Assange was reduced from one of the few towering figures of our time \u2013 a man who will have a central place in history books, if we as a species live long enough to write those books \u2013 to nothing more than a sex pest, and a scruffy bail-skipper.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

F<\/strong>or seven years, from the moment Julian Assange first sought refuge in the Ecuadorean embassy in London, they have been telling us we were wrong, that we were paranoid conspiracy theorists. We were told there was no real threat of Assange\u2019s extradition to the United States, that it was all in our fevered imaginations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For seven years, we have had to listen to a chorus of journalists, politicians and \u201cexperts\u201d telling us that Assange was nothing more than a fugitive from justice, and that the British and Swedish legal systems could be relied on to handle his case in full accordance with the law. Barely a \u201cmainstream\u201d voice was raised in his defence in all that time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the moment he sought asylum, Assange was cast as an outlaw. His work as the founder of Wikileaks \u2013 a digital platform that for the first time in history gave ordinary people a glimpse into the darkest recesses of the most secure vaults in the deepest of Deep States \u2013 was erased from the record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Assange was reduced from one of the few towering figures of our time \u2013 a man who will have a central place in history books, if we as a species live long enough to write those books \u2013 to nothing more than a sex pest, and a scruffy bail-skipper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Media\u2019s 7 Years of Lies about Julian Assange Won\u2019t Stop Now Assange was reduced from one of the few towering figures of our time \u2013 a man who will have a central place in history books, if we as a species live long enough to write those books \u2013 to nothing more than a […]<\/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":[8739,17165,2001,23910,3180,1494],"class_list":["post-45334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-ecuador","tag-jonathan-cook","tag-julian-assange","tag-mint-press-news","tag-narrative","tag-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45334","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=45334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45335,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45334\/revisions\/45335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}