"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."
Last night @elonmusk vowed to honor the endless, repressive and due-process-free censorship orders from Brazil's Judge Alexandre de Moraes.
The Judge has banned various journalists and members of Congress, among others, from social media.
This would be a huge deal for Brazil:
Rumble last year also announced that it would refuse to comply. The platform was expending huge resources to constantly take down videos and ban users upon the endless, lawless orders of a single job.
Amazingly, Rumble is no longer available to anyone in Brazil, getting this:
In January of last year, we obtained one of the secret orders Judge Moraes issues to platforms. This one banned Senators, Congress members and journalists, and mandated secrecy.
No due process. We reported it here. Hard to overstate how extreme it is:
UK Court hands Assange a partial victory in the Biden DOJ's attempt to extradite him.
US must provide explicit assurances that Assange 1) can raise a 1st Am defense, 2) will have the same rights as US citizens and 3) will never face the death penalty.
Biden WH doesn't want the sideshow of a trial; daily protests; discovery into CIA; Assange on the stand; Biden as the first-ever president to imprison a publisher.
They want to kill Assange through conviction-free imprisonment.
How dare the US President weigh in on a war he has caused American citizens to finance, arm and support!
Look at the mentality of these Israel fanatics: the duty of American citizens is not only to finance Israel's military and wars, but also never question what Israel does: