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    Re: Peter Hitchens pleads for justice for Assange -- in the Mail on Sunday! Archived Message

    Posted by Ken Waldron on June 30, 2023, 8:02 am, in reply to "Re: Peter Hitchens pleads for justice for Assange -- in the Mail on Sunday!"

    "Hitchens illustrates many of the best conservative qualities, in relation to the Assange Affair, compared to his liberal/left colleagues in the political/media sphere. As does Tucker Carlson."


    Hitchens has been in everything from the Socialist Workers Party to Labour then the Tories...always moving rightwards and at each stage layering new eccentricities. He now describes himself as an "Anglo Gaulist"and his support for Assange is perhaps shaped by the latters refusal to be subservient to the US: extraditing Assange according to Hitchens "violates British sovereignty" but of course unlike De Gaulle the modern Conservative politician knows he is a mere branch manager for a US corporation. "Liberal/left colleagues in the political /media sphere" hmmm...these probably have as rarefied an existence as Hitchin's "British Sovereignty": all more apparent than real because you don't get to play in the Corporate media if perceived as a leftist of any description. Those in the media don't support Assange because they aren't actually there.

    Carlson is a latecomer and has been good on Assange recently but I wouldnt lump this in with his other pleasant quirks as such as his opposition to US support for the Ukraine war as part of a noble conservatism because its not, nor is it based on any sensible anti-war sentiment: he's an all out war-hawk who just happens to believe the US has chosen the wrong enemy:
    “the United States ought to be in a relationship with Russia aligned against China..." he says and never misses an opportunity to push scare stories on the Fu Manchu level and hype the dangers posed by the most "dangerous enemy" the Yellow Peril.
    -Given his popularity hes probably one of the most dangerous men on the planet.



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