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Vin LoPresti's avatar

Turn your head to the right, now to the left; now gaze over your shoulder. Now erect your hardiest psychological barriers. The propaganda is machine-gunning at you, seeking to infiltrate every pore, capillary and synapse. And having no weight of veracity, it seems light and airy, which makes that infiltration so much easier. Every US government utterance about Wikileaks and Assange is a major component of that infiltrate. Unabated resistance is absolutely necessary to maintain even a dollop of sanity.

Vigilance!

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Michael Arturo's avatar

Great piece, Cait, I'd just like to add my piece on the same subject posted yesterday:

The mainstream media doesn't care about the so-called censorship the Assange case might have on them. They are playing by a different set of rules to begin with. Rules often changed by their government and financial alliances. Indeed, at this point in time, the powers that be see no difference between Wikileaks and QAnon.

Of course, there is a difference, but as disruptors to the mainstream narrative ... they're akin.

The control of the narrative at the establishment media level and the censorship of online opinion voices are in lockstep with the Assange case.

In the last few years, progressive news sites - The Intercept in particular, have been compromised. TYT bought out. Democracy Now a shell of itself. RT News smeared. Generic news sites like Yahoo and others with high online visibility have eliminated user commentary, Facebook, Twitter, Google severely curtailed commentary.

Why? Because someone like you might say something to challenge the power of someone they want to protect. Assange, as they see it, is vicariously responsible.

Or let me put it another way, does anyone really believe that what Julian Assange exposed back in 2010 really changed anything? Joe Biden is President. What did knowledge of US war crimes by the very regime that gave us Biden really change? NOT A DAMN THING!

We are good with our imperialism, we are good with the corrupt regimes of the Clintons and the Bushes, we are good with continuing unauthorized wars in the Middle East. What the hell did Assange do to change any of that?

Assange is not being prosecuted because he's a journalist who exposed a war crime or two, he's being prosecuted because he inspires discourse outside the strictures of what is acceptable, which is a danger not only to the corporate controlled narrative but more importantly to their bottom line - indeed their very existence. There are six and seven figure jobs at stake here.

He needs to be stopped, in their minds, because he will and already has inspired countless others to think for themselves. That is anarchy as the powers see it. But there is a component of profit in this more so than anything else.

The corporate media, whose goal is profit, wants to deliver the narrative with their own massaging of the facts, whereas Wikileaks, whose goal is speaking truth to power, delivers the message with no commentary often in the form of a leaked document that the public themselves can digest and debate coming to a more authentic realization.

Maybe the reason no one in the mainstream speaks up for Assange is because he's not really on trial for being a journalist exposing inconvenient truths, he's on trial for being a heretic. He's on trial for threatening an industry's profit margin and the salary of the paid drones therein. He's on trial for giving you a voice. He's on trial for future crimes. Even when the FBI is caught red-handed paying off a convicted pedophile to fabricate testimony as a star witness, no one bats an eye lid. It doesn't get lower than that. All to keep the hookers in the house happy.

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