Julian Assange Is Being Murdered by a Fake Case that Has No Basis in Law
Julian Assange Is Being Murdered by a Fake Case that Has No Basis in Law
Paul Craig Roberts
In the 1970s Pentagon Official Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers. The New York Times published them. It helped to end the war by showing Americans how they had been deceived by Washington. Washington tried to prosecute Ellsberg and the New York Times, but the presiding judge declared a mistrial citing government misconduct so severe as to “offend the sense of justice.”
Four decades later documents were leaked by Manning to Assange at Wikileaks who made them available to the New York Times and The Guardian, both of which published some of the documents, and the leaked information was published by Wikileaks. Assange was not the leaker but had the role of the New York Times in the 1970s. The documents exposed US war crimes and deceptions by Washington of allies.
In the intervening years between Ellsberg and Assange “the sense of justice” has departed the American and British governments and courts. The American and British media whose free speech rights are destroyed by the persecution of Assange actually helped the two corrupt governments to build a public case against Assange. Consequently, the written US Constitution and the unwritten British Constitution have been undermined as protections against vengeful arbitrary actions of governments. Assange has been incarcerated in one form or another for more than a decade in complete violation of habeas corpus. The British play a game of keeping Assange in solitary confinement in a maximum security prison, where he most certainly does not belong, while appeal after appeal plays out. It is a way of imprisoning Assange without convicting and sentencing him.
The broader issue is that Assange’s persecution is achieving the criminalization of truth if told about government misdeeds. The inability to hold government accountable doesn’t seem to bother anyone in media or government and very few among the population, most of whom were worked up into fury over “the traitor Assange.” The same lawlessness and blind emotion characterize the Democrats’ persecution of Donald Trump.
Once again we see the inability of Americans to recognize threats directed at themselves. This inability is inconsistent with being a free people.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/06/jacob-hornberger/the-destruction-of-julian-assange/
Van Cliburn, Moscow, 1958
Van Cliburn, Moscow, 1958
Paul Craig Roberts
The Cold War could have ended that year with the Moscow success of the American concert pianist Van Cliburn.
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An American performed Russian music better than the Russian pianists.
The Russians could have sabotaged Van Cliburn by leaving some piano keys
out of tune or by the conductor changing pace on him. But the Russian
conductor recognized greatness and contributed to it. In all my years of
concert attendance I have never seen such an outpouring of applause,
affection, and flowers with which the Russians greeted Van Cliburn’s
performance. The judges asked Khrushchev, “Can we give the American the
prize?” “Was he the best?” asked Khrushchev. “Yes.” “Then give him the
prize.”
Today we are barbarians compared to the darkest days of the Cold War. We ban Russian musicians, artists, athletes, literature, impose sanctions, insult the President of Russia, and foment war. President Reagan, America’s last president, would never have permitted such barbaric behavior as now characterizes the White House and the American government. But perhaps we no longer have an American government.
At a crucial point in the Cold War President Reagan called Van Cliburn out of retirement to play for Gorbachev in the White House, and Reagan and Gorbachev went on to end the Cold War.
Now the Washington barbarians have resurrected the Cold War in a hot and much more dangerous form.
Here is Van Cliburn performing Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No 1, probably the most difficult of all piano concertos, followed by Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 and encores:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9aKbfnMSrY
Today Van Cliburn would be branded a “Russian agent/dupe” and he would be pulled off the airliner and his passport confiscated as he attempted to fly to Moscow to enter the Tchaikovsky competition.
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