I worked with Julian Assange during the Moment of Truth Event I helped organise in 2014.
I was approached by a Feminist Protest Group and warned they were intending to interrupt the event and protest against Julian Assange who had been accused of rape.
I was very clear and loud at how outrageous that would be.
They backed down and Julian went on alongside Snowden and Greenwald to prove there was a CIA station in Auckland and that the NSA had the capacity to access everything in NZ.
Not only was mass surveillance occurring, it was sanctioned by the Government.
I’m reminded of the rape allegations in the incredibly powerful new Documentary, The Trust Fall that timelines Assange’s incredible journalism and the wicked legal case against him.
They deal with the rape allegation upfront and highlight just how farcical and smearing it was of Julian.
It details his service to journalism by pointing out his expose highlighted 15 000 war crimes that had previously been invisible.
It notes how he personally redacted 10 000 names to protect those sources.
There is a lump in your throat when John Pilger and Daniel Ellsberg from the Pentagon Papers appear as both are now dead.
The documentary highlights the power of Wikileaks and how it changed journalism forever. Most media now have anonymous drop boxes for whistleblowers.
It looks at the infamous Collateral Murder video as Apache Helicopter Pilots laugh while they murder journalists.
Seeing it now so many years later, your hate of Americans and their war machine erupts as you are forced to watch again.
The case against Assange is an attack on all of us.
He exposed US military war crimes and has been smeared as a response.
He has been locked up for almost 5 years in solitary confinement.
That is torture pure and simple and the Documentary notes that in leaked papers, the intention by the authorities is to tie him up in legal battles for 25 years to kill him that way.
The Military Industrial Complex demands anyone exposing their war crimes are destroyed.
This Documentary documents that destruction with painful and angry detail.
You must see this documentary to understand what is really happening in this world.
5 Stars
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Ok. Blown. Away. I wonder… Did the Crown know about any of this because we are, after all, still a Crown entity or does that no longer matter?
Will certainly watch it. The good ol u$a huh.
Are there connections to be made?
RNZ
Cuts and closures in New Zealand’s news media industry: What you need to know
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/what-you-need-to-know/511466/cuts-and-closures-in-new-zealand-s-news-media-industry-what-you-need-to-know
What Americanism/zionism has done to Assange- imprisoning him for more than a decade, spying on him, plotting to murder him, torturing him, is what they want to do to all of us.
All because he exposed their disgusting crimes against humanity.
Thoughts re Julian Assange –
This to avow Julian Assange’s purposes:
from Soren Kierkegaard-What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every act. What matters is to find a purpose, to see what it really is that God wills that I shall do; the crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/S%C3%B8ren_Kierkegaard
I think that Julian Assange must come out from prison – let free by the USA now from his British jail, with an exhortation against the behaviour the two countries abhor, and announcement that he has been locked away for sufficient time to provide a deterrence to others. This, if they want to hold their heads up in honesty and majesty, not like the Hydra, spouting poison from its numerous mouths, which regrow when cut off.
I think it would be good to be able to buy a DVD of this work about him.
I think it is important not to talk of hating Americans, otherwise we fall into the same type of thought that we dislike in the perpetrators – it’s the ‘shadow of evil’ that will in the end disgrace us all..
…That leads us to the deepest areas of the shadow, where we find manifestations of evil as a dynamic in the world to which we need to relate with collective guilt, responsibility and reparation:…https://www.thesap.org.uk/articles-on-jungian-psychology-2/about-analysis-and-therapy/the-shadow/
And philosophers have done the hard yards for us examining the human condition, and bringing it into the light to see and understand it if we care to spend the time pondering:
Danish Soren Kierkegaard 1813-1855 | 42 years -“widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher. Wikipedia-”
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/11/soren-kierkegaards-struggle-with-himself
French philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville:
On May 9, 1831, two young Frenchmen sailed into the harbor of Newport, Rhode Island and began a remarkable journey through the United States. Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont, both minor French court officials, had been sent by their government to study new experimental prisons in America… https://teachdemocracy.org/election-central/de-tocqueville-america.html
de Tocqueville: From time to time indeed, enterprising and ambitious men will arise in democratic communities, whose unbounded aspirations cannot be contented by following the beaten track. Such men like revolutions and hail their approach; but they have great difficulty in bringing them about, unless unwonted events come to their assistance.
No man can struggle with advantage against the spirit of his age and country; and, however powerful he may be supposed to be, he will find it difficult to make his contemporaries share in feelings and opinions which are repugnant to all their feelings and desires…sometimes they will even applaud him – but they do not follow him. To his vehemence they secretly oppose their inertia; to his revolutionary tendencies their conservative interests; their homely tastes to his adventurous passions;…
Why Great Revolutions Will become More Rare. ://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/de-tocqueville/democracy-america/ch39.htm
…Tocqueville argued the importance of the French Revolution was to continue the process of modernizing and centralizing the French state which had begun under King Louis XIV. He believed the failure of the Revolution came from the inexperience of the deputies who were too wedded to abstract Enlightenment ideals. .. [or economists’ ideals or visions?]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville
…democracy has a tendency to degenerate into “soft despotism” as well as the risk of developing a tyranny of the majority. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_America
I think that a book I am reading about how ordinary Germans were inveigled into demeaning or hating Jews is an example of the ‘shadow’ that has overtaken the USA. This book refers to women laughing while from an elevated vantage point, their men took potshots with guns at Jews below, like shooting animals for sport. ‘Hitler’s Willing Executioners by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen 1996’ (And because this could happen in a highly developed and educated nation like Germany, then it may be repeated anywhere; here?)
“Laws cannot succeed in rekindling the ardor of an extinguished faith, but men may be interested in the fate of their country by the laws.”
https://bookroo.com/quotes/alexis-de-tocqueville
Julian Assange made the fatal mistake to remain in the West when he released all the Wikileaks War criminal information that exposed America’s & their Western lackeys murderous activities & Torture programs in Iraq & abroad? Assange mistakenly trusted in the integrity of the Western Legal system which has been revealed to be a total farce, especially in the US & UK & EU! Assange should have gone to Russia when he had the chance to, just like Edward Snowden did & seek asylum first, then lob his Truth bombs from a position of distance & safety? But now Julian will be shipped off to America to that Shining City on a Hill & yadda yadda yadda, what bullshit, the Land of the Free, Home of the Brave, when the Reality is its a Dungpile on a Hill & the Land of the Oppressed, Home of the Cowardly, Julian Assange will be subjected to every heinous torture that the Americans learned from the Nazi’s & the Gestapo & ultimately be killed because he released information that exposed America as a Mafia run, murderous, psychotic & evil Nation that has & is killing people, having killed millions over a 70 yr period since WW2, committing genocide in other Nations in a vain attempt to rule & oppress the World? The Ukraine War & the Genocide of Palestinians in Gaza are two recent examples of America’s devious complicity & meddling in other Nations affairs & the result has been Ukraine is in ruins with 500k dead Ukrainians & in Palestine & Gaza, 70k are dead, mostly children & women & a million being purposely starved to death, this genocide is a US orchestrated Operation, America enables, funds & supplies all the bombs that enable Zionist Israel to commit these atrocities while they hide in the background & egg on the murderous Zionist Jews? And why you may ask, it’s because a huge gas field was discovered off the Gaza coast so they are removing the Gazan infestation in order to steal the gas that’s why the Israeli’s who knew in advance what Hamas was planning, did nothing & allowed Hamas to do the attacks they did to provide the Zionists & the Americans with the needed excuse to clear out the Palestinians from Gaza! The same thing is happening in Syria with the US illegally occupying Syrian Oilfields to steal their Oil & Resource’s using the fake excuse that they are there to stop ISIS, a Terrorist organisation they created & funded, are you seeing a pattern here? That’s the Tragedy of all this, Assange exposed the fact that all Wars are Wars of Empire, the US Empire, all ate Imperial & Banker Wars to control & steal others Resources & any information that exposes this to the Public can’t be be tolerated so Assange must be made a example of as a warning to others not to follow his lead? Assange apparently was offered safe haven in Russia but unfortunately never took up the offer while Snowden did & now Julians going to be transported to the US in chains to be placed on the Altar of this sadistic, satanic American Govt & offered up as a Human sacrifice for exposing the Truth, its disgusting & depraved but America & the West are the ultimate Losers, already the US is being isolated & has lost the approval of the World, the Global Majority which is 93% of the World outside of the West despises the US & are joining BRICs to extricate themselves from the poisonous Western Deathcult Neoliberal Capitalist System of Colonial Imperialism & abandoning them to join this alternative system, so Julian Assange’s sacrifice isn’t in vain, although horrific, it has served a meaningful purpose that will signal the death knell that will sink the US Empire & the West forever! Julian will be go down in History as a Freedom Fighter for Truth, remembered as a Hero while his US Torturers will be remembered with contempt, reviled, hated & despised & confined to the dustbin of History to join the other Tyrants like Hitler, Mussolini, Pol Pot, Stalin etc!
Doubt the Russians would have allowed him entry.