Well what a couple of days it's been for international and national protest.
That 'threat to democracy and national security' (according to various governments)Julian Assange has been arrested and put into segregation,for a alleged sexual offences with consenting partners.This man hasn't even had a trial but he is already incarcerated and being treated as being guilty without trial.
Surely I can't be the only one that finds it just a little bit suspicious that after publishing various articles via Wikileaks about Iraq,Afghanistan,collateral murder,worldwide government corruption and general nastiness by those that consider themselves our masters,these charges have been brought?
If truth,honesty and justice is what drives our nation,then surely he should be charged with the heinous crime of telling us the public,the truth? Which is what we should be rightly entitled to hear (but the powers that be don't want us to).
The whole waving of hands and mass chorus of "it's a threat to national security" by messrs Cameron & Obama surely masks one true fact:
The powers that be have been exposed for what they are.
The real reason the people at the top are angry has nothing to do with security,but more to do with the fact that they have been exposed for what they really are.People who don't really give a stuff about anyone apart from themselves and the sheer embarrassment about being caught out lying and bad mouthing those people and countries that were meant to be economic and military partners.
Here’s some examples.
The Obama administration has been denying that it has expanded the current “war” to yet another country, Yemen. Now we know that is a lie. Ali Abdulah Saleh, the Yemeni dictator, brags in these cables to a US diplomat: “We’ll continue to say the bombs are ours, not yours.” The counter-insurgency expert David Kilcullen, who until recently was a senior advisor to General Petreaus in Iraq, estimates that for every one jihadi killed in these bombings, they kill fifty innocent people. How would we react if this was happening in Britain? How many of us would become deranged by grief and resolve to fight back, even against the other side’s women and children? Bombing to end jihadism is like smoking to end lung cancer – a cure that worsens the disease.
The US and British governments told us they invaded Iraq, in part, because they were appalled that the Iraqi government tortured its own citizens. Tony Blair often mentioned “Saddam’s torture chambers” in making his case for the war. Yet these leaked documents show that as soon as our governments were in charge, the policy of burning, electrocuting and raping people started again – and they consciously chose a policy of not objecting and not investigating.
Or how about this: US troops blew up an Afghan village called Azizabad, and killed 95 people, 50 of them children. None were al Qaeda, or even Taliban. They knew what they’d done – yet in public they kept insisting they’d killed “militants”, and even accused the local Afghan villagers of “fabricat[ing] such evidence as grave sites.”
For Britain’s politicians, the documents offer a long-needed slap in the face. Successive governments, of all parties, support these destructive US policies because they believe we have influence with the Americans. But these cables show the Americans literally laugh at them and their sycophancy, describing their servility in mocking tones in cables back home, saying “it would be humorous if it were not so corrosive.”
I remember when Dr David Kelly spoke out against the British Government in the Iraq conflict,only to be found dead (a victim of his own suicide apparently) days later.I wonder how long it will be until Julian Assange 'cannot take it ' anymore and decides to 'take his own' life?
