Re: CaitlinJ on RMaddow's sudden lurch into defending Julian Assange. [Sic!] - Archived Message
Posted by brooks on May 26, 2019, 9:21 pm, in reply to "CaitlinJ on RMaddow's sudden lurch into defending Julian Assange. [Sic!] -"
Not buying it. Maddow and all her lying colleagues in the liberal media knew from the moment Assange took refuge in the Embassy why he was doing it. They knew that the UK refused to promise he would not be extradited. That Sweden refused to promise him he would not be extradited. There could be only one reason for that refusal. Everyone with two brain cells to rub together knew what it was. The UN even confirmed he was a political prisoner. He was being persecuted for his journalism, the same journalism that won the liberal US and UK media awards. And yet the merciless persecutions of four lawless states – Sweden, the UK, post-Correa Ecuador, and the US – for seven years and the immense sufferings and deprivations inflicted on him by unlawful captivity for publishing important truths in the public interest, were somehow not “a huge deal and a very dark development” to quote Maddow? The idea that these charges come as a surprise to these mendacious hacks is a sick joke. They’re about as “shocked, shocked” as Captain Renault. Their own asses aren’t on the line now any more than they have been for the past seven years while their Australian colleague was being slowly crucified and they looked on and laughed or threw stones at him. Nothing substantial has changed now that the charges that everyone knew were being prepared have been made explicit, and that he has been moved from his UK/Ecuadorian prison to a UK prison, and that a Swedish prison looms before his final transfer to a US prison. So how could hacks like Maddow suddenly be worried? It’s a joke. These people are basically highly paid state operatives. The first amendment means nothing to them. Johnson’s breathless claim that Maddow’s apparent u-turn “is a hugely significant development” reflects a dismal lack of perspective regarding what these people are and what role they play for the oligarchy. This is probably more of a “now-it-can-be-told” phenomenon, i.e. now that Assange is safely in the custody of a US client, you can polish the turd of your long-departed credibility and pretend to care about what happens to him for a while.
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