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If you think America is a bedrock of freedom of the press, think again. Our government is trying to extradite and jail Julian Assange for being a journalist, for exercising his right to freedom of speech.
Ten years ago, Assange and Wikileaks began publishing its Guantanamo Bay files, exposing abuses there. If Assange is extradited, 40 years of the 175-year sentence he faces relate to those exposés. How can the Biden administration take a stand against Assange while pointing to the misdeeds of other countries that engaged in the same abuses Assange revealed? The answer is simple:
You can show about war crimes that other countries do, but not America cause our war crimes are for freedom. When we torture people that were illegally detained it’s for freedom. We’ve lost our soul as a country.
And what do you say like if the Russian intelligence, formally KGB, or the secret service of the China was trying to assassinate a journalist that was showing the crimes of the Chinese and Russian governments.
Well, in America we call them the CIA because they wanted to assassinate a journalist. The CIA, which is a rogue branch. They have their own budget. They answer to no one. They can just spend your tax dollars on figuring out ways to assassinate journalists.
America is no better than the Saudis. Remember a couple of years ago when the Saudis killed Jamal Khashoggi, a journalist who criticized the Saudi royal family?
We didn’t really do that much about it because the Saudis buy in the neighborhood of a hundred to $125 billion worth of weapons from us every year. And we get oil from them. So we are right with them, chopping up a journalist in a garden.
And don’t think about pointing fingers at either party because Assange called out war crimes under Republican and Democrat presidents.
This situation with Julian Assange is a reminder to all of us that we are not as free as we like to think. Keep that in mind if you plan to speak up against the American empire.
