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The 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 t
by fit2rule 6y ago
The 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.