Prosecution of Julian #Assange, America’s Betrayal of Its Own Ideals
commondreams.org/views/2018/11/… Thanks @greekemmy for your help in finalizing this article! #WikiLeaks #Unity4J
commondreams.org/views/2018/11/… Thanks @greekemmy for your help in finalizing this article! #WikiLeaks #Unity4J
Now that the sealed indictment is out in the open, the public is given an opportunity to see the true nature of his plight for freedom. What is now being revealed is the war on the First Amendment waged by the US government, targeting the Western journalist. #WikiLeaks #Assange
This attack on #WikiLeaks is an escalation of Obama’s war on truthtellers. While Obama was relentlessly prosecuted whistleblowers more than all other previous administrations combined, corporate media effectively kept the battlefield out of public sight.
Recent public confirmation of the US government’s secret charges on #Assange has shown the empire’s expansion of a combat zone, to include journalists and publishers as its target. #WikiLeaks
The possibility of the US government charging #Assange who is not American & didn’t publish in the US under the Espionage Act is alarming. What is this crime of ‘aiding the enemy’ that the US government is eager to convict this transnational journalistic organization for?
#WikiLeaks, the organization that claimed to derive its source of inspiration from American founding ideas, with cryptography as a non-violent democratic weapon, helped American people to engage in the tradition of civil disobedience.
Through its scientific journalism, publishing primary source material in its full archives, #WikiLeaks gave the conscience of America the maximum political impact for it to inform the public, in order to redeem the nation that has lost its own course.
In this war of a tyrannical state on the First Amendment, #Assange became a lightning rod to take all the heat, so ordinary people can uphold ideals that founded America, defending them against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
As Trump’s administration now carries on Obama’s legacy, vowing to destroy #WikiLeaks for engaging in publishing activities that are protected under the First Amendment, American people are slowly coming to see their own government’s dirty war that has been waged in their name.
