“This week, we learned Assange was right and his critics were wrong. Thanks to a clerical error by the U.S. attorney’s office in Alexandria, Virginia, reporters confirmed the existence of Secret sealed criminal charges against the WikiLeaks founder.” This is a great danger to Liberty.
Ilana Mercer, perceptively, wrote: “…the only reason Assange is being targeted is that he tangled with the highest levels of the western establishment. In that, he is far from alone. Dr. Jerome Corsi is in the crosshairs of the dreadful and dreaded “Deep State.”
In the late 2000s to early 2010s, western governments targeted all manner of individuals associated with Assange and the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, including Laura Poitras, Glenn Greenwald’s partner David Miranda, and The Guardian newspaper.
These days, however, a new class of western dissident has emerged — the populist dissident. …
Who would have thought that the highest court in Europe, home of the enlightenment, would uphold a case in which a woman was prosecuted for blasphemy against Islam?
Who would have thought that Britain, the birthplace of liberalism and the free press, would ban an independent journalist from its shores for satirizing the same religion?
Who would have thought that Germany, whose living memory of the totalitarian Stasi is just three decades old, would put its largest opposition party under surveillance. Who would have thought Robert Mueller is deliberately targeting president Trump? How could this happen?
“….. any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.”
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