The Kafkaesque Imprisonment of Julian Assange Exposes U.S. Myths About Freedom and Tyranny
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"The real measure of how free is a society is not how its mainstream, well-behaved ruling class servants are treated, but the fate of its actual dissidents....Royal court vassals always end up fine: rewarded for their subservience and thus convinced that freedoms abound."
How you determine whether a society is *truly* free, whether it truly guarantees basic civic rights and civil liberties -- or whether it's just an illusory tool of propaganda:
"When the U.S. grants asylum to dissidents from adversary countries, the U.S. media heralds it a noble, benevolent act...But when asylum is granted to protect someone against persecution at the hands of the U.S., suddenly asylum is transformed into a dastardly, corrupt crime."
"Absent a pardon by Trump or the withdrawal of the charges by DOJ, Assange will be locked up for years without any need to prove he is guilty. He will have been just disappeared: silenced by the very governments whose crimes he denounced and exposed."
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Some people are saying the Assange article was paywalled. It wasn't intended to be and, if it were, it should be fixed now:
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