{"id":58263,"date":"2021-06-15T07:03:29","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T12:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58263"},"modified":"2021-06-15T07:03:29","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T12:03:29","slug":"chris-hedges-assange-the-collapse-of-the-rule-of-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58263","title":{"rendered":"Chris Hedges: Assange &#038; the Collapse of the Rule of Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<header>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scheerpost.com\/2021\/06\/11\/chris-hedges-julian-assange-and-the-collapse-of-the-rule-of-law\/\">Chris Hedges: Assange &amp; the Collapse of the Rule of Law<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>Chris Hedges gave this talk at a rally Thursday night in New York City in support of Julian Assange. John and Gabriel Shipton, Julian\u2019s father and brother, also spoke at the event, which was held at The People\u2019s Forum.<\/strong><span id=\"more-64527\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0society that prohibits the capacity to speak in truth extinguishes the capacity to live in justice.<\/p>\n<p>This why we are here tonight. Yes, all of us who know and admire Julian decry his prolonged suffering and the suffering of his family. Yes, we demand that the many wrongs and injustices that have been visited upon him be ended. Yes, we honor him up for his courage and his integrity. But the battle for Julian\u2019s liberty has always been much more than the persecution of a publisher. It is the most important battle for press freedom of our era. And if we lose this battle, it will be devastating, not only for Julian and his family, but for us.<\/p>\n<p>Tyrannies invert the rule of law. They turn the law into an instrument of injustice. They cloak their crimes in a\u00a0<em>faux\u00a0<\/em>legality. They use the decorum of the courts and trials, to mask their criminality. Those, such as Julian, who expose that criminality to the public are dangerous, for without the pretext of legitimacy the tyranny loses credibility and has nothing left in its arsenal but fear, coercion and violence.<\/p>\n<p>The long campaign against Julian and\u00a0<i>WikiLeaks<\/i>\u00a0is a window into the collapse of the rule of law, the rise of what the political philosopher Sheldon Wolin calls our system of inverted totalitarianism, a form of totalitarianism that maintains the fictions of the old capitalist democracy, including its institutions, iconography, patriotic symbols and rhetoric, but internally has surrendered total control to the dictates of global corporations.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Hedges: Assange &amp; the Collapse of the Rule of Law Chris Hedges gave this talk at a rally Thursday night in New York City in support of Julian Assange. John and Gabriel Shipton, Julian\u2019s father and brother, also spoke at the event, which was held at The People\u2019s Forum. A\u00a0society that prohibits the capacity [&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":[9035,2001,1589,30799,1492],"class_list":["post-58263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-chris-hedges","tag-julian-assange","tag-rule-of-law","tag-scheer-post","tag-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58263","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=58263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58264,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58263\/revisions\/58264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}