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Being Julian Assange (long read)
An in-depth investigative story about the struggle of @WikiLeaks, the Deep State infiltration of the activist community, the strength & vulnerability of the world’s leading truth-teller @JulianAssange & a call to action:
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BEING JULIAN ASSANGE
Suzie
Dawson
18
March, 2018
Certain
journalists would consult an almanac for Washington DC on the night
of the 2016 election, and begin this article with a few picturesque,
scene-setting words about the chill winds whipping the capital as it
lay poised, awaiting the results with baited breath.
But
I have more respect for my readers than that.
So
I’ll cut to the chase.
That
Election
In
2016 an accused serial sexual predator ran for the US presidency
against the notoriously corrupt wife of a previously impeached
President – who is also an accused serial sexual predator.
That
these facts alone were insufficient to invalidate the entire race is
testament to the audacity with which corrupt power operates in the
West, and how conditioned the public is to consuming the warped
byproducts of its naked machinations.
Arguably
the most contentious election in recent history, the accused serial
sexual predator won.
During
the race, WikiLeaks Editor-in-Chief Julian Assange aptly described
the two candidates as “cholera vs gonorrhoea.” Edward Snowden ran
a Twitter poll asking his followers whether they would rather vote
for a “calculating villain”, an “unthinking monster” or
“literally anyone else”. 67% chose the latter. Yet those who
didn’t want to be forced into a false choice between Clinton or
Trump became the forgotten voices, the silent majority; largely
excluded from the endless, vapid mainstream media debates about the
outcome.
Julian
and Edward’s descriptors were flawless metaphors for the
Presidential contestants; cartoon-like characters that when paired
together and portrayed as a legitimate democratic choice, made a
mockery of the entire concept of political representation.
Unfortunately,
this sham wasn’t as anomalous as it may appear when viewed in such
a simplistic light. The moral failings were business as usual in a
modern “democracy”. No matter who had won, the global public was
going to be subjected to a continuation of Barack Obama’s blatant
lies and populist betrayals of his ‘Hope and Change’ platform.
The
contenders for leadership are the reality TV stars (now, quite
literally) of an intergenerational revolving political theatre: A
four-yearly exercise in mass re-enfranchisement of the public, where
two-dimensional aspiring figureheads promise to fulfil the dreams of
their populace. You are told that with your vote, your candidate of
choice will begin ending wars and bringing transparency to
government, investing in infrastructure or asserting human rights and
equality for all – yet once elected, the victor turns to the
camera, sotto voce, like Kevin Spacey in House of Cards, and says
“You didn’t really think I’d do that, did you?”
Meanwhile,
the media and the money-power that pull their strings ignore the
blatantly obvious and work feverishly to emboss the proceedings with
a veneer of credibility. In tandem, government-aligned big data and
social media companies are employing ever more loathsome technologies
to remodel human history in real time.
This
industrialised historical revisionism requires the excoriating of the
public reputation of the virtuous, the sanitising of the compromised,
and the constant manipulation of the living memory of both.
These
are the core tenets of manufacturing consent. They aren’t just
lying to us; they are already preparing the lies they will tell our
unborn great-grandchildren.
It
is some of those layers of contrived, mainstream bullshit that this
article intends to peel back.
At
the crux of the issue is a battle of authenticity versus falsehood,
on a spectrum. With most of us sandwiched somewhere in between and
WikiLeaks front and centre. Because WikiLeaks is the last available
vestige of verifiable, unadulterated public truth.
That
is why they are hated by those who fear the revelations WikiLeaks
facilitates and why WikiLeaks’ public reputation is desecrated
every day. It is why their every pillar of support is systematically
undermined and why Julian Assange is being ever so slowly murdered in
front of our eyes.
We,
the people, are the last line of their defence. Part of protecting
WikiLeaks – and ultimately ourselves – is to understand the
relentless nature of the psyops employed against them; that the
hardships inflicted upon them by the enemies of human progress are
not just reputational or financial but physical; that for those
waging this thankless war of truth on our behalf, this is a matter of
life or death.
And
that is why we must push back.
That
is why we must tell the truth about them
Read
the article HERE
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