Society vs. Julian Assange

Only wilful ignorance and stupidity can enable or tolerate this state of affairs

By Craig Murray, in Consortium News:

The sheer baseness of the extraordinary lies told by the mainstream media about his personal hygiene — leaving toilets unflushed and even smearing Embassy walls with excrement — is something straight out of Joseph Goebbels’ playbook. 

The cold calculation behind Assange’s treatment in his last months in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, when he was denied access to wash and shave, in order to produce the apparent monster for the photos of his arrest, is a true example of evil unfolding. 

Two days before his expulsion I telephoned the embassy and spoke to the first secretary (a call I recorded). I explained that if, as we understood, Julian were no longer welcome, they only had to say so and he would leave voluntarily to the police station. Instead, we had that calculated piece of theater. 

Presentation aside, it also enabled them to retain all of Julian’s possessions, including all his legal papers covered by client-attorney privilege relating to his defence.

As we heard in the extradition hearing, all of those papers were taken to Quito and then given to the C.I.A. This was admitted by counsel for the U.S. government who claimed that “Chinese walls” — a direct quote — within the U.S. government prevented the C.I.A. from passing any of that information to the Justice Department, which is running the case.

If you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you. But the fact is that it is the U.S. government that is applying for extradition and the U.S. government has stolen the legal papers of the other party in the case. In any other case this would lead to the case being kicked out immediately. 

If you add that together with the fact that the extradition treaty specifically bars political extradition, that the U.S. government’s key witness is a convicted fraudster and pedophile who was paid for his evidence (which he has since denounced), and that no journalist in the U.S. has ever been charged with espionage before, you begin to start to understand the depth of state depravity that has kept Julian in the U.K.’s strongest security prison for four birthdays.

It is ultimately society at large that has treated Assange like this, no matter what society seeks to use as its excuse. Ignorance, prejudice, dependence upon a faulty narrative, lack of facts etc. None of those are acceptable excuses because other people who know what has happened to Assange accessed other information, conducted other analysis and came to other conclusions a long, long time ago.

The British, Swedish and Ecuadorian governments, at the behest of the US government are murdering and slowly torturing to death someone who published truth. In turn, all of those societies are supporting that.

If society allows, enables or even wants Julian Assange to burn, what does that society deserve? Society is openly rejecting truth and truth tellers. The ramifications of this are utterly gigantic but they appear to have sailed completely past most of society.

At no point in history was the saying, “we get the government we deserve”, more true than now. Society’s IQ is somewhere around 80. Able to chew or breathe, but not at the same time. Can follow simple orders. Cannot determine whether those orders should be followed on sense grounds. Cannot determine whether those orders are legal.

And it’s all our own fault. “Not being interested” is not acceptable because this is the direct embodiment of truth in society and who and what gets to determine what truth and therefore reality, actually is.

But people hate being told they’re stupid or ignorant. This is why Covid policy was possible. People are too dumb to seek, handle, process and cope with truth. They want lies. They want the matrix.