{"id":51517,"date":"2020-03-02T08:15:08","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T13:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=51517"},"modified":"2020-03-02T08:15:15","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T13:15:15","slug":"humanity-is-making-a-very-important-decision-when-it-comes-to-assange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=51517","title":{"rendered":"Humanity Is Making A Very Important Decision When It Comes To Assange"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Humanity Is Making A Very Important Decision When It Comes To\u00a0Assange<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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The propagandists have all gone dead silent<\/a> on the WikiLeaks founder they previously were smearing with relentless viciousness, because they no longer have an argument. The facts are all in, and yes, it turns out the US government is certainly and undeniably working to exploit legal loopholes to imprison a journalist for exposing its war crimes. That is happening, and there is no justifying it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So the narrative managers, by and large, have gone silent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which is good. Because it gives us an opening to seize control of the narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s time to go on the offensive with this. Assange supporters have gotten so used to playing defense that it hasn\u2019t fully occurred to us to go on a full-blown charge. I\u2019ve been guilty of this as well; I\u2019ll be letting myself get bogged down in some old, obsolete debate with someone about some obscure aspect of the Swedish case or something, not realizing that none of that matters anymore<\/em>. All the narrative manipulations that were used to get Assange to this point are impotent, irrelevant expenditures of energy compared to the fact that we now have undeniable evidence that the US government is working to set a precedent which will allow it to jail any journalist who exposes its misdeeds, and we can now force Assange\u2019s smearers to confront this reality<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShould journalists be jailed for exposing US war crimes? Yes or no?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s<\/em> the debate now. Not Russia. Not Sweden. Not whether he followed proper bail protocol or washed his dishes at the embassy. That\u2019s old stuff. That\u2019s obsolete. That\u2019s playing defense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now we play offense:\u00a0\u201cShould journalists be jailed for exposing US war crimes? Yes or no?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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