The Liberal Agenda – The Assange Documentary ‘The Trust Fall’ review: 5 stars
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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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