Repost of a
recent text by Paul Craig Roberts on the subject of vilification and
persecution of Julian Assange and other whistleblowers by Western capitalist
establishment, published here: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/06/10/western-world-truth-endangered-species-come-support/ .
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Paul Craig Roberts:
"Nowhere
in the Western world is truth respected. Even universities are imposing
censorship and speech control. Governments are shutting down, and will
eventually criminalize, all explanations that differ from official ones. The Western world no longer has a
print and TV media.
In its place there is a propaganda ministry for the ruling
elite.
Whistleblowers
are prosecuted and imprisoned despite their protection by federal statue. The
US Department of Justice is a Department of Injustice. It has been a long time
since any justice flowed from the DOJ.
The total corruption of the print and TV media led to the
rise of Internet media such as Wikileaks, led by Julian Assange, a prisoner
since 2012.
Assange is an Australian and Ecuadorian citizen. He is not
an American citizen. Yet US politicians and media claim that he is guilty of
treason because he published official documents leaked to Wikileaks that prove
the duplicity and criminality of the US government.
It is strictly impossible for a non-citizen to be guilty of
treason. It is strictly impossible under the US Constitution for the reporting
of facts to be spying. The function of the media is to expose and to hold
accountable the government. This function is no longer performed by the Western
print and TV media.
Washington wants revenge and is determined to get it. If
Assange were as corrupt at the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, National
Public Radio, MSNBC, etc., he would have reported the leaker to Washington, not
published the information, and retired as a multi-millionaire with Washington’s
thanks. However, unfortunately for Assange, he had integrity.
Integrity today in the Western world has no value. You
cannot find integrity in the government, in the global corporations, in the
universities and schools, and most certainly not in the media.
After leaving Assange, an Australian citizen, to
Washington’s mercy since 2012, belated pro-Assange protests in Australia forced
the US vassal state to come to Assange’s aid before the new corrupt president
of Ecuador sells him to Washington for multi-millons of dollars by revoking his
asylum.
When the story was printed in the Sydney
Morning Herald, the incompetent or brainwashed, or bought-and-paid-for
journalist, Nick Miller, wrote:
“Assange entered the embassy on June 19, 2012, after he had
exhausted his appeals against an extradition order to go to Sweden to face rape
and sexual assault allegations. Swedish authorities have since closed their
investigation, saying it couldn’t continue without Assange’s presence in their
country.”
Nick Miller has committed libel, whether from his ignorance
or from pay.
There was no extradition order from Sweden for Assange to be
returned to Sweden “to face rape and sexual assault allegations.” No such
charges were issued by the Swedish prosecutorial office, and no such charges
were made by the women involved.
The case had already been closed by the Swedish
prosecutorial office, and the two women who willingly shared their beds with
Assange did not press any charges. The Swedish female prosecutor, who many
suspect reopened the closed case at the urging of Washington, wrote in the
extradition request that she only wanted Assange for questioning.
Normally, extraditions are not granted for questioning.
There has to be actual criminal charges, and there were no such charges against
Assange. However, under pressure from Washington, a corrupt UK court granted,
perhaps for the first time in history, extradition for questioning.
Assange’s attorneys understood that if Assange left his
embassy refuge and travelled to Sweden to be questioned, there was nothing to
prevent Sweden from turning him over to Washington to be tortured, as
Washington does, into confession of some crime.
Consequently, Assange’s attorneys told the Swedish female
prosecutor, a person who seems shortchanged on integrity, that Assange would be
available for questioning in his place of refuge. The prosecutor, showing her
hand, refused to question Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. After
refusing for many months while the presstitutes blackened Assange’s reputation
as a “rapist who was escaping justice,” the sort of ignorant nonsense that Nick
Miller writes, the prosecutor consented to go to London to interview Assange.
As nothing incriminating emerged from the questioning and as
neither of the women claimed that they were raped, the female prosecutor closed
the case for the second time. But the corrupt British would not release
Assange. They claimed that he was wanted for jumping bail, an argument that
made no sense as the charge for his arrest had been dismissed. But Washington
insisted, and British “justice” again served Washington instead of justice.
The basis of the political assault on Assange came from the
concern of one of his willing sex partners that he had not used a condom. With
everyone worried crazy about HIV and Aids, the woman inquired at a Swedish
public office if Assange could be required to take a HIV/Aids test. Assange,
not realizing his vulnerability, apparently refused the test, and thus opened
himself to a controversy that Washington immediately took advantage of. It is
safe for rock stars to have groupies, but not for truth-tellers.
If you understand the extreme extent to which the US
government has gone, riding roughshod over many laws and traditions, to destroy
Assange, perhaps you can understand the threats that the very few of us who
have the education, experience, and integrity to tell you the truth live under.
When I write an article, it does not inform me. I already
know. When I inform you, I am doing so at my risk. I am not going to take this
risk if readers do not support this website. I do this for you. If it is not
important to you, I have no need to do it.
You need to
support truth-tellers as we are a disappearing breed under constant assault."
