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Journalists that abandoned Julian Assange have “slit their own throats”

Monday, 17 July 2023, 9:30 MJA Uncategorized 20

The Exposé

The failure by journalists to mount a campaign to free Julian Assange, or expose the vicious smear campaign against him, is one more catastrophic and self-defeating blunder by the news media.

The following are excerpts from the article ‘Journalists Abandoned Julian Assange and Slit Their Own Throats’ written by Chris Hedges.  Read the full article HERE.

The persecution of Julian Assange, along with the climate of fear, wholesale government surveillance and use of the Espionage Act to prosecute whistle-blowers, has emasculated investigative journalism. The press has not only failed to mount a sustained campaign to support Julian, whose extradition appears imminent, but no longer attempts to shine a light into the inner workings of power. This failure is not only inexcusable, but ominous.

The US government, especially the military and agencies such as the CIA, the FBI, the NSA and Homeland Security, have no intention of stopping with Julian, who faces 170 years in prison if found guilty of violating 17 counts of the Espionage Act. They are cementing into place mechanisms of draconian state censorship, some features of which were exposed by Matt Taibbi in the Twitter Files, to construct a dystopian corporate totalitarianism.  read more

20 Comments on Journalists that abandoned Julian Assange have “slit their own throats”

  3. I’m old enough to remember the Pentagon Papers, and how Daniel Ellsberg was the hero of the left for exposing the corruption. Now, the same people have villified Assange for doing the exact same thing.
    Bizarro world.

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  5. @Tony R

    What makes you think he will do this time what he failed to do the first time?

    It was Tucker who broke the story that Trump refused to pardon both Snowden and Assange because Miss Lindsey warned him that some GOP Republicans might vote to impeach him if he did this, he caved to the deep state.

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  9. ^^^^ DeSantis was never president and was never given the opportunity to pardon Assange. TBH, I have no idea of his feelings one way or the other. He has come on record as saying he would pardon those J6 prisoners, jailed without due process. My only point was that you expect him to do what he failed to do the first time and was just asking why this time is different.

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  11. Trump accomplished more than any president in history both here and abroad and because he didn’t do every little thing you wanted he failed. I think he was too busy being railroaded. And Tony Rs’ question had nothing to do with him being the president but what he would do in the future.

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  14. I’m not sure Assange is a good guy. And the only reason I say that is because I seem to have noticed several prominent people get on the free Assange band wagon and then get off. He did break the law. And then there’s that rapey thing. Was he set up? Who knows. I dunno.
    But back to the intent of the article, yes our federal government wants to control what comes out of your mouth.

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  16. Trump was on Maria Bartiromo’s show yesterday, he not only called Zelensky “honorable” but parroted his claim of ending the war in 24 hours and that if Putin did not comply he would give Ukraine more military aid,”We are going to give them a lot, more than they ever got before”. Is Pence writing his talking points?

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  19. That “rapey thing” was bogus, hence Sweden dropping the charges.

    Ditto, on whether Assange or Snowden is good or bad, but they both did good things re: exposing our own government’s spying on its citizens and the lies they told in covering it up.

    I do like Loco’s idea of scorched earth, and I would have pardoned both guys for the main reason that The Deep State did not want me to.

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