{"id":45429,"date":"2019-04-17T06:48:50","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T11:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45429"},"modified":"2019-04-17T06:49:21","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T11:49:21","slug":"45429","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45429","title":{"rendered":"From Jesus Christ to Julian Assange: When Dissidents Become Enemies of the State"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rutherford.org\/publications_resources\/john_whiteheads_commentary\/from_jesus_christ_to_julian_assange_when_dissidents_become_enemies_of_the_state_by_john_w._whitehead\">From Jesus Christ to Julian Assange: When Dissidents Become Enemies of the State<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cIn a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.\u201d \u2014 George Orwell<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the current governmental climate, where laws that run counter to the dictates of the Constitution are made in secret, passed without debate, and upheld by secret courts that operate behind closed doors, obeying one\u2019s conscience and speaking truth to the power of the police state can render you an \u201cenemy of the state.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That list of so-called \u201cenemies of the state\u201d is growing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is merely the latest victim of the police state\u2019s assault on dissidents and whistleblowers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On April 11, 2019,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/04\/11\/uk\/julian-assange-arrested-gbr-intl\/index.html\">police arrested Assange<\/a>&nbsp;for daring to access and disclose military documents that portray the U.S. government and its endless wars abroad as reckless, irresponsible, immoral and responsible for thousands of civilian deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Included among the leaked materials was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2010\/apr\/05\/wikileaks-us-army-iraq-attack\">gunsight video footage from two U.S. AH-64 Apache helicopters engaged in a series of air-to-ground attacks<\/a>&nbsp;while American air crew laughed at some of the casualties. Among the casualties were two Reuters correspondents who were gunned down after their cameras were mistaken for weapons and a driver who stopped to help one of the journalists. The driver\u2019s two children, who happened to be in the van at the time it was fired upon by U.S. forces, suffered serious injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is nothing defensible about crimes such as these perpetrated by the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When any government becomes almost indistinguishable from the evil it claims to be fighting\u2014whether that evil takes the form of war, terrorism, torture, drug trafficking, sex trafficking, murder, violence, theft, pornography, scientific experimentations or some other diabolical means of inflicting pain, suffering and servitude on humanity\u2014that government has lost its claim to legitimacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Jesus Christ to Julian Assange: When Dissidents Become Enemies of the State \u201cIn a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.\u201d \u2014 George Orwell When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals. In the current governmental climate, where laws that run counter [&hellip;]<\/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":[21426,21580,379,25636,6420,2001,6300,862],"class_list":["post-45429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-dissidence","tag-enemy-of-the-state","tag-government","tag-jesus-christ","tag-john-whitehead","tag-julian-assange","tag-the-rutherford-institute","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45429","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=45429"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45431,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45429\/revisions\/45431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}