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It is going to be very interesting to watch how this trial proceeds - if indeed, Julian doesn't succumb to the Belmarsh torture and perishes, before the trial c
by fit2rule 6y ago
It is going to be very interesting to watch how this trial proceeds - if indeed, Julian doesn't succumb to the Belmarsh torture and perishes, before the trial can run its course.
For those of us who have been paying attention to Julian for decades, the turning of public opinion against him has been a very fascinating lesson in Western hubris.
I think the most important conclusion of all of this is that a) the US government thinks it has what it takes to continue to commit war crimes and other crimes against humanity with impunity, and b) those who pick up the mantel from Julian's passing will have learned a lot from his case.
Most important of all, I believe that c) the leaks will continue. It is going to be a very rough time, given todays climate, for those who continue to slavishly support the US military industrial pharmaceutical complex' crimes against humanity. Julians' heinous treatment just means, when the leaks continue, it'll be with the gloves off. There won't be a loud, obvious flamboyant cult figurehead to depose - more than likely, the leaker strategy going forward from this point onwards, will be a lot more effective.
One can hope, anyway. Until the American people prosecute their war criminals and faces justice for the crimes against humanity committed in their name, and for which they are thus responsible, the American people will continue to suffer as well. A nation ruled by war criminals is a victim of its own cowardice.
- zepto 6y agoI don’t see where your optimism about c) comes from. Julian Assange’s flamboyance and charisma are the reason he wasn’t disappeared a long time ago. Quiet leakers will surely FB dispensed with quietly and much less pleasantly than Assange.
- fit2rule 6y agoThe real reason he wasn't disappeared long ago, is that he had access to such gargantuan quantities of very real evidence of very real crimes that he was able to surf the shock wave, and he successfully leaked it in a way that would guarantee some light on the case - clearly not enough, but he did not disappear into darkness after the first war crimes were revealed. His followup was his defence, and the only reason he got caught in a web of intrigue is that he stopped focusing on the mission and got caught in a honeypot. Julians flamboyance and charisma are the reason the general public are complacent about his torturous treatment. His character was weaponised against him by those with immense resources to do so. However, you can't dispense with leakers you don't see. And here is the weakness in the US Governments' strategy of disappearing Julian - Its not the leaker: its the leaks. And since the West has committed war crimes at such stupendous scale, these leaks are not going away.
- zepto 6y agoOk - but leaks must become public if they are going to be effective, and then they can be traced back to the source and the ‘invisible’ source can be subjected to judicial processes with none of the scrutiny and publicity that Assange is receiving.
- fit2rule 6y agoSure, the leaks must become public. But the leakers don't. And the outrage over the crimes committed is so large that I am fairly confident, within a year, we will see the American public tearing those responsible into shreds. If, that is, America survives another year with its war criminals running free without tearing itself into shreds ...
- mistermann 6y agoAny damning enough leak can be declared to be a conspiracy theory with an accompanying half-assed debunking and the well-trained public will ignore it.