{"id":744,"date":"2015-06-14T15:00:29","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T15:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lordre\/?p=744"},"modified":"2015-06-14T13:41:01","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T13:41:01","slug":"should-julian-assange-face-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lordre\/2015\/06\/should-julian-assange-face-justice.html","title":{"rendered":"Should Julian Assange face &#8220;justice&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i>Tyran, descends du tr\u00f4ne et fais place \u00e0 ton ma\u00eetre.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Tyrant, step from the throne, and give place to thy master.<\/p>\n<p id=\"firstHeading\" class=\"firstHeading\" lang=\"en\" style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Pierre Corneille<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>I won&#8217;t acknowledge and certainly won&#8217;t discuss\u00a0the criminal accusations\u00a0against Julian Assange.\u00a0The true criminal in this instance\u00a0is the accuser.<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/8\/86\/WikiLeaks-op5.jpg\/800px-WikiLeaks-op5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Anyone stupid enough to think Assange has actually committed a crime should hang his head in shame. You are a dog, a slave, a puppet, a fool.\u00a0You are utterly, deplorably, insane.<\/p>\n<p>Yes,\u00a0more interesting than the details of any charges accusations\u00a0against Assange, is the fact that they were invented for the sole purpose of arresting a dissident. It is a story that has been heard so many times that I don&#8217;t know why everyone can&#8217;t recognize this farce immediately. Dissident criticizes government, dissident suddenly has some strange and elusive criminal charges like embezzlement or sexual assault to answer for.<\/p>\n<p>Should\u00a0we, even for a brief moment,\u00a0overlook our scumbag politicians\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0who consorted with pedophiles and tried to cover up their crimes\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0and instead look at the supposed moral deviations of one\u00a0dissident who tried to subject\u00a0them to greater scrutiny?\u00a0If someone accuses a top politician of being the pedophile he is, the result will be libel\u00a0charges being brought against the accuser. If some liar accuses of Assange of rape, the result is a case being brought against Assange.<\/p>\n<p>In reality, the only ones\u00a0who deserve to\u00a0be on trial are not Assange but his accusers\u00a0and,\u00a0ultimately, the regime that has fabricated this case against an innocent man. They are, each and every one of them, liars, fabricators, and vicious enemies of democracy who deserve\u00a0to suffocate\u00a0in their own filth and hypocrisy just for consenting to be part of this offensive spectacle.<\/p>\n<p>Many people have long suspected that criminal charges are fabricated by regimes in order to attack dissidents, with the usual charges being embezzlement or sexual crimes of some sort (we are told that such fabrication is obviously the case when the person in question is Alexei Navalny, with the offending regime being Putin&#8217;s Russia). What they fail to realize is that the most effective regime at this kind of repression is the United States, and that European countries are so servile that they will go along with whatever\u00a0fabrication, repression, and mockery of justice that\u00a0an incompetent and failing\u00a0regime\u00a0is demanding. It is likely that this atrocious\u00a0slavery\u00a0results because they\u00a0are under as much tyrannical pressure from this US regime as its own citizens are.<\/p>\n<p>Denounced\u00a0in Glenn\u00a0Greenwald&#8217;s book <em>No Place to Hide<\/em> are the farcical and outrageous arguments made against Julian Assange by both journalists and government officials. Many\u00a0people today foolishly believe that the accusations of a sexual offense made against Julian Assange are a separate affair from his publishing. But the truth is exposed, ironically, by the very disclosures by Edward Snowden that were a vindication of all that Assange had said and done. The charges against Assange had nothing to do with sex offenses and were pushed by the US long before he had been accused of anything specific, as the US was already telling its European allies to look for any arbitrary excuse to lock Assange away because his publishing embarrassed and threatened their regime (p. 188).<\/p>\n<p>Further, a state\u00a0capable of fabricating anything, and under punishing orders by a monstrous and violent regime\u00a0to fabricate anything, will fabricate anything to imprison or exile dissidents. The US is exactly such a regime, as is exposed by further information made available by Edward Snowden explaining the tactics available to the rogue security services to arbitrarily attack or destroy anyone (and almost never a single terrorist) that they have a grudge against.<\/p>\n<p>The rationale of total\u00a0surveillance has always been about stifling democratic processes and effective opposition (p. 177) as the rationale of total fabrication is to\u00a0arbitrarily arresting anyone for having a dissenting opinion. Neither the prevention of terrorist acts or the desire to ensure justice are part of that rationale.<\/p>\n<p>The only thing anyone has to do to be blacklisted as a &#8220;threat&#8221; by the current repressive regimes of the West is to have a dissenting opinion. We\u00a0are brainwashed by a servile and lower-than-scum media to believe that anyone who defies authority by leaking embarrassing information on public officials must be psychologically unstable or strange, but the opposite is true. The promiscuous\u00a0courtiers of power who appear on television shows are servile to an incompetent regime, and this fact alone makes them insane (p. 230).<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">By\u00a0<a title=\"Harry J. Bentham's file at The clubof.info Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clubof.info\/search\/label\/Harry_J_Bentham\" target=\"_blank\">Harry J. Bentham<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-41\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/375\/2014\/08\/HJB-Signature-and-stamp-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"HJB Signature and stamp\" width=\"200\" height=\"113\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tyran, descends du tr\u00f4ne et fais place \u00e0 ton ma\u00eetre. Tyrant, step from the throne, and give place to thy master. Pierre Corneille I won&#8217;t acknowledge and certainly won&#8217;t discuss\u00a0the criminal accusations\u00a0against Julian Assange.\u00a0The true criminal in this instance\u00a0is the accuser. 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