Revenge
Is Mine Saith Washington
By Paul
Craig Roberts
November 20, 2018 "Information
Clearing House"
-
Justice has disappeared in the West. In
Justice’s place stands Revenge. This fact is
conclusively illustrated by Julian Assange’s
ongoing eight year ordeal.
For
eight years Julian Assange’s life has been lived
in a Kafka Police State. He has been
incarcerated first under British house arrest
and then in the Ecuadoran Embassy in London,
despite the absence of any charges filed against
him.
Meanwhile, the entirety of the Western world,
with the exception of former Ecuadorian
President Rafael Correa and a UN agency that
examined the case and ruled Assenge was being
illegally detained by the UK government’s
refusal to honor his grant of political asylum,
has turned its back to the injustice.
Assange
is locked away in the Ecuadorian Embassy,
because to protect him from false arrest, former
Ecuadorian President Correa gave him political
asylum. However, the corrupt and servile UK
government that serves Washington, and not
justice or law, refused to honor Assange’s
asylum. The US vassal known as the UK stands
ready to arrest Assange on Washington’s orders
if he steps outside the embassy and to hand him
over to Washington, where a large number of both
Democrats and Republicans in Congress have said
he should be executed. The Trump regime,
carrying on the illegal practices of its
forebears, has a secret indictment waiting to be
revealed once they have their hands on Assange.
The
current president of Ecuador, a servant of
Washington, Lenin Moreno—a person so lacking in
character that his name is an insult to Lenin—
is working a deal with Washington to rescind
Assange’s grant of asylum so that the Ecuadorian
Embassy in London has to expell Assange into the
hands of Washington.
What
has Assange done? He has done nothing but to
tell the truth. He is a journalist who heads
Wikileaks, a news organization that publishes
leaked documents—exactly as the New York Times
published the leaked Pentagon Papers from Daniel
Ellsberg. Just as the publication of the
Pentagon Papers embarrassed the US government
and helped to bring about the end of the
senseless Vietnam War, the documents leaked to
Wikileaks embarrassed the US government by
revealing Washington’s war crimes, lies, and
deception of the American people and US allies.
The
allies, of course, were bought off by Washington
and remained silent, but Washington intends to
crucify Assange for the embarrassment and payoff
expense he caused the criminal government in
Washington.
In
order to assert authority over Assange,
Washington is using the extra-territoriality of
US law, a claim that Washington bases not on law
but on might alone and uses to violate the
sovereignty of independent countries. Assange is
a citizen of Australia and Ecuador. He is not
subject to US law. Even if he were, he has
committed no espionage. The false equivlence
Washington is trying to establish between the
exercise of the First Amendment and treason
shows how totally lost are the American people.
The silence of the US media demonstrates that
the presstitutes don’t mind losing the First
Amendment’s protection as they have no intention
of telling any truths.
Washington’s secret indictment—it is secret so
that two-bit punks such as James Ball can write
in the Guardian that Assange faces no threat of
arrest (
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/11/18/empire-keeps-proving-assange-right-about-everything.html
) —most likely accuses Assange of espionage. But
it is not legally possible to accuse a
non-citizen operating outside the country of
espionage. All countries engage in espionage.
Every country on earth could accuse Washington
of espionage and arrest the CIA. The CIA could,
as it often has, accuse Israel of espionage. Of
course, any Israeli, such as Jonathan Pollard,
who is convicted of espionage in the US becomes
a point of contention between Washington and
Israel and Israel always wins. The corrupt Obama
regime released Pollard from his life sentence
on orders and, no doubt, generous bribes, from
Israel.
If
Assange were Israeli, he would be home free, but
he is a citizen of two countries whose
governments place high value on being
Washington’s vassals.
There
was a time in America, many decades ago, when
the Democrats stood for justice and the
Republicans stood for greed.
There
was a time in America, prior to 9/11, when the
media would have rushed to the defense of the
freedom of the press and defended Assange from
his mistreatment and false charges. To be sure
that the reader understands the mistreatment of
Assange, it is identical to the mistreatment of
Cardinal Josef Mindszenty of Hungary whose
asylum in the US Embassy in Budapest was not
acknowledged by the Soviet government, forcing
Mindszenty to live out all but three years of
his remaining life in the US embassy. President
Nixon negotiated his release in 1971, but the
Nixon haters give Nixon no credit for his
attention to one man locked away in an injustice
part of the earth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/József_Mindszenty
Today
there is no such attention to injustice except
for the “victim” groups in Identity Politics.
Where is the champion of Assange now that Rafael
Correa has to live abroad to avoid persecution
by Washington’s puppet Moreno?
The
weakness of the intellect in the West is scary.
Caitlin Johnstone tells us about it: “Trump’s
despicable prosecution of Assange, and corporate
liberalism’s full-throated support for it, has
fully discredited all of mainstream US politics
on both sides of the aisle. Nobody in that hot
mess stands for anything. If you’re still
looking to Trump or the Democrats to protect you
from the rising tide of fascism, the time to
make your exit is now.”
The
entirety of the Western print and TV media—even
Russia’s RT—serves as a propaganda ministry for
Washington against Assange. For example, we read
over and over that Assange is hiding out in the
London Venezuelan Embassy to avoid rape charges
in Sweden. That the presstitutes and the
feminists can keep this bogus claim alive
despite all the official repudiation of it shows
the Matrix in which Western peoples are
corralled.
Assange
has never been charged with rape. The two
Swedish women who seduced him and brought him
into their beds in their homes never said he
raped them. Assange’s tribulations began when
one of the women who seduced him worried that he
did not use a condom and that he might have HIV
or Aids. She asked Assange to take a test to see
if he was sex disease free, and Assange,
offended, refused. This was his mistake. He
should have said, “of course, I understand your
concern” and taken the test.
The
woman went to the police to see if Assange could
be forced to take the test. It was the police
who turned this into a rape investigation.
Charges were brought, and the Swedish
prosecutorial office investigated and dropped
all charges as the sex was consentual.
Assange
left Sweden legally, not in flight as the story
that Washington has planted has it. He went to
England, another mistake as England is
Washington’s playground. Washington and/or
lesbian feminists lusting for the conviction of
a heterosexual male convinced a female Swedish
prosecutor to reopen the closed case.
In an
unprecedented act, the Swedish prosecutor issued
an order to the UK for Assange to be handed over
for questioning. Extradition orders are only
valid for filed charges, and there were no filed
charges, only dismissed charges. Never before
had even the corrupt UK govertnment granted an
extradiction order for questioning. The UK
government, Washington’s puppet, agreed to hand
over Assange to Sweden. It was completely clear
as there was no case in Sweden against Assange
that the Swedish prosecutor, probably for a
large sum, would turn Assange over to
Washington, a place in which no legal
protections exist for anyone, not even for
those, such as whistleblowers, who are protected
by US law, but, despite the protection of law,
nevertheless go to prison.
Seeing
what was coming, Assange was granted political
asylum by President Correa and escaped house
detention in the UK to make it to the Ecuadoran
Embassy in London, where he has been ever since,
despite the Swedish government’s dropping of all
charges against Assange and again closing the
investigation.
In the
meantime a US attorney, corrupt as they all
are—never believe any federal indictment as they
are created out of whole cloth without any need
of evidence—managed to convince an incompetent
American grand jury to indict Assange for what
we do not yet know, but most likely for
espionage.
The US
grand jury that approved the secret indictment
has no comprehension that they indicted a person
for telling the truth precisely as protected—and
required if government is to be controlled by
the people—by the US Constitution. All Assange
did was to publish documents sent to Wikileaks
by a person with a moral conscience who was
disturbed at the blatant criminality and
inhumanity of the US government.
There
is no legal difference whatsoever between
Wilileaks publishing the documents leaked to
Wikileaks, and the New York Times publishing the
Pentagon Papers leaked to the New York Times.
The
difference is the difference in time. When
Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers to
the New York Times, the media had not been
concentrated into a few hands by the corrupt
Clinton regime, and 9/11, which was used by Dick
Cheney to criminalize truth-telling, had not
occurred. Therefore in the 1970s it was still
possible that some important part of the media
might tell the truth. Nevertheless, the only
reason that the NYTimes published the Pentagon
Papers is that the newspaper hated Richard
Nixon, who the Democratic media blamed for the
Vietnam War even thought it was Democratic
President Johnson’s war and Nixon wanted to end
it.
When
the insouciant American and Western peoples
accept their governments’ lies, they accept
their own demise and servitude. The willingness
and abandon with which the Western peoples
submit makes one conclude that they prefer
servitude. They don’t want to be free, because
freedom has too many responsibilities, and they
don’t want the responsibilities. They want go
watch a movie, or a TV program, or play video
games, or have sex, go shopping, get drunk, have
a drug high, or whatever form of amusement that
they value far more than they value liberty, or
truth, or justice.
To a
person of my disappearing generation, it is
inexplicable that the nations of the world, much
less Americans, would stand moot while the
world’s best, most trusted and most honest
journalist is set up by a totally corrupt US
government for destruction. The result of
Assange’s persecution will be to criminalize
embarrassing the US government.
When I contemplate this massive injustice to
which the peoples of the world reply with
silence, I wonder if those trying to save
Western Civilization are not misguided.
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/11/19/merkel-deep-sixed-germany-diversity-deep-sixed-western-civilization/
What is the
point of saving a totally corrupt civilization?
Those
who attack Assange are despicable. If you have a
chance to push one or more of those who are
members of the lynch mob in front of a truck,
think of the act as a cleansing opportunity.
See:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50620.htm
and
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50615.htm
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate
editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was
columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News
Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many
university appointments. His internet columns
have attracted a worldwide following. Roberts'
latest books are
The Failure of Laissez Faire
Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West,
How America Was Lost,
and
The Neoconservative Threat to
World Order.
See
Also
Julian Assange deserves a
Medal of Freedom, not a secret indictment
Physicist from the Union
of Concerned Scientists discusses Donald Trump
and explains how easy it would be for Trump to
launch a nuclear strike
The
views expressed in this article are solely those
of the author and do not necessarily reflect the
opinions of Information Clearing House.
