- Re: Liberating Assange: a woeful lack of leadership Archived Message
Posted by brooks
on November 3, 2019, 6:19 pm, in reply to "Re: Liberating Assange: a woeful lack of leadership "
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Not sure I agree margo. There were millions of people demonstrating globally including the biggest demonstration in London's history - about a million people - against the illegal invasion of Iraq. You saw the demonstration in front of Belmarsh. Sure this is a different kind of atrocity, but it's one of innumerable others, and far from the worst. Serbs are caucasian and they were happy to slaughter them and destroy their country on a pretext. Allan Turing was white, brilliant, British, a war hero who had helped the Allies defeat Hitler and they still treated him like garbage and persecuted him to death for being gay. Like I said, appearing to be a human rights defender just doesn't matter that much to them, less and less all the time as western governments become more openly fascist. Indeed they seem to be flaunting their lawlessness as a message to dissidents. The UN condemns their treatment of Assange as arbitrary detention and they say it's irrelevant. The special rapporteur on torture denounces them, they ignore him. They really don't care whether they have appeal to the developing world. They'll serve power like the lapdogs that they are unless public resistance reaches a high level or if the terrifying legal precedent makes enough of the elite nervous. And maybe not even then. Obviously none of this is to say we shouldn't do everything we can to stop it, and to publicize these grotesque abuses. |