How Blue Anon manufactured consent for Assange's arrest.
Democratic loyalists were duped into spreading propaganda.
Before going to war, the media first builds a case to the American public through lies and deception. The media and government lied that Saddam Hussien had W.M.Ds and was connected to Al-Qaeda to manufacture content for the war in Iraq, they lied about Gadaffi telling his troops to rape women and overstated threats of him massacring his own people to manufacture consent for regime change in Lybia, they portrayed the Jihadist rebels in Syria as moderate pro-democracy rebels to manufacture content for the dirty war in Syria. The arrest of Jullian Assange is no different, the media and government spent years manufacturing consent to paint Assange in a bad light. Recently the U.K. high court ruled that Jullian Assange can be extradited to the United States. Jullian Assange was charged by the Trump administration for violating the espionage act. This charge was over his release of the collateral murder video, a video that exposed United States war crimes in Iraq. This case has been condemned as an attack on the free press by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists James Risen, Seymour Hersh, Glenn Greenwald, Chris Hedges, and Dean Baquet, the executive editor of the New York Times. The case against Assange has also been condemned by almost every human rights orginization such as Amnesty International and Human rights watch. Nils Melzer the UN Special Rapporteur on torture said “My most urgent concern is that, in the United States, Mr. Assange would be exposed to a real risk of serious violations of his human rights, including his freedom of expression, his right to a fair trial and the prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment,”. This case against Jullian Assange is an extremely clear violation of freedom of the press and of Jullian Assange’s human rights. Noam Chomsky compared this case against Assange to actions taken by Mussolini to silence dissent. He said “Assange is a similar case: We’ve got to silence this voice. You go back to history. Some of you may recall when Mussolini’s fascist government put Antonio Gramsci in jail. The prosecutor said, “We have to silence this voice for 20 years. Can’t let it speak.” That’s Assange.” This of course is one of the biggest scandals in recent years and could lead to the end of the free press in America. The American government could only get away with this if they first convinced the American people on the left and the right that Assange was a bad person who deserved to be in jail. Convincing the right was easy-the neo-conservative Trump administration was happy to destroy the free press and bring the espionage charges against Jullian Assange and most of Donald Trump’s sycophantic supporters will continue to believe he is fighting the establishment no matter how many times he does it’s bidding. After 2016 the intelligence agencies realized they could get liberals and democratic partisans to spread their propaganda through the one issue that could get liberals to repeat anything-Russiagate.
The propaganda.
Post-2016 there has been a massive propaganda campaign against Assange trying to paint him as a Trump supporter, right-wing, and a Russian agent. Most liberals and democratic party stenographers started to blame Assange for Hillary Clinton’s loss and believed he was in bed with Russia and the Trump campaign. None of this is true as I will demonstrate in this article but that did not matter to those spreading this propaganda.
Jullian Assange’s connection to Russia debunked
The first change I will debunk is the one that claims Jullian Assange is a Russian asset. This was completely proven false recently in a bombshell Yahoo News piece that exposed the C.I.As secret plot to kidnap and kill Assange. Slipped into this piece was the fact that the C.I.A tried to find connections between Assange and Russia but were not able to find any. The article states “The difficulty in proving that WikiLeaks was operating at the direct behest of the Kremlin was a major factor behind the CIA’s move to designate the group as a hostile intelligence service, according to a former senior counterintelligence official.” This idea is also absurd because in 2017 Jullian Assange and Wikileaks published the “Spy Files Russia” which were documents that proved the Russian government’s use of mass surveillance and their corruption. When it comes to Assange working with Russia in 2016, this claim is also provably false. The claim that Assange’s source for the DNC emails was Russia was originally drummed up by a company called crowd strike that was forced to admit under oath they had no evidence the DNC emails were hacked at all let alone hacked by Russia.
This company was what the F.B.I relied on to make their claims that Russia was Jullian Assange’s source in 2016. Aaron Mate reported that “According to Comey, the FBI would have preferred direct access to the server, but "ultimately it was agreed to… [CrowdStrike] would share with us what they saw." There is also evidence the emails were leaked and not hacked. Four former intelligence officials associated with VIPS (Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity) analyzed the data and determined that the source for the DNC emails was in fact a leak and not a hack. So to recapp, the C.I.A. could not find connections between Assange and Russia, Jullian Assange and Wikileaks published documents that exposed and embarassed the Russian government, the firm behind the claims of Russia being wikileaks source in 2016 admitted they have no eviednece in court and four former intellegence officals belive the documents were leaked over hacked based on thier expertiese.
Painting Jullian Assange as right-wing and as a Trump supporter.
Jullian Assange has also been accused of colluding with the Trump campaign with allegations of him having connections to Donald Trump Jr., Roger Stone, and Paul Manafort. First I want to dispel the idea that Jullian Assange is a Trump supporter. Assange compared the 2016 election to a “choice between Cholra and gonorrhea and said he would rather eat his own intestines over suck up to Donald Trump. On Bill Mahr's show, Assange was asked by Mahr if he was going to release Trump’s tax returns, Assange replied with “we’re working on it”. This is clearly the reason he was in contact with Donald Trump jr. First, it was not Assange who was in contact with Trump jr. it was a WikiLeaks staffer (more on that later) but it was clear the staffer was trying to play him to get him to leak Trump’s tax returns. Part of the email exchange as journalist Catlyn Jhosntone reported was WikiLeaks asking for “A solicitation for Trump’s tax return which was hot news at the time. The WikiLeaks account reasoned with Don Jnr that they could get the jump on any leaks to the establishment media by leaking it to WikiLeaks first.” This shows the WikiLeaks staffers were clearly trying to make a connection with Don jr. to eventually convince him to be their source for the Trump tax returns. It was actually a way of trying to expose Donald Trump. Second is the supposed connection between Roger Stone and Jullian Assange during the 2016 election. This one is simply non-existent and was made up by Stone who is a serial liar and wanted to make himself seem more important than he actually was. The only DMs between WikiLeaks staffers and Roger Stone before the election were a message showing WikiLeaks asking Roger Stone to stop lying about fake connections between WikiLeaks and Assange.
It is true that later WikiLeaks staffers later told Stone they were free to communicate, but this was after the election so it was not in any way helping the Trump campaign. When it comes to Assange meeting Paul Manafort, this claim is completely made up. This report first came from an article in the Guardian that claimed Assange met with Paul Manfort and Russians in the Ecuadorian embassy. This claim is blatantly false, as Glenn Greenwald reported the Ecuadorian embassy is one of the most surveilled buildings on earth yet there is no video evidence of Manafort entering the building, Manforts name never appeared in the embassy entrance logs and that the supposed document the article is based on lists Paul Manfort and “Russians” which is an almost comical claim. A real document would have actual names, not just the word “Russians”. The allegations of Assange being far-right are also false. This claim comes from leaked documents from the intercept that show the WikiLeaks account making some offensive comments. The article tries to attribute this to Assange but the problem is Assange does not run the WikiLeaks account. It has been well documented that the Wikileaks Twitter account is a shared staff account and not run by Jullian Assange.
So to summarize the WikiLeaks account (run by staffers) was in contact with Donald Trump jr. to try to get Donald Trump’s tax returns, the connection between Roger Stone and WikiLeaks during the 2016 election was fabricated by Stone, a known liar and conspiracy theorist, the connection to Paul Manafort was completely made up by serial fabulist Luke Harding and the offensive comments attributed to Assange by the Intercept were actually made by a WikiLeaks staffer and not Assange.
The people who parroted this propaganda.
This propaganda despite being entirely false has caused many liberals to now to hate Assange and see him as a far-right, Trump-supporting Russian agent. This has caused many liberals to cheer his extradition to the United States and the espionage charges against him despite the fact that it will destroy press freedoms forever. Mainstream outlets like MSNBC, CNN, The New York times, etc parroted this propaganda but many outlets that claim to be alternative and adversarial did as well. Their loyalty to the democratic party and obsession with the deranged Russia-gate conspiracy theory led them to parrot these lies on Assange. Youtube channels like the Young Turks parroted many of these claims as well as outlets like the Intercept. Many of these outlets do not support the extradition of Assange but the damage has already been done. So many believe all these lies about Assange because of how routinely these claims have been repeated. In my view, anyone who repeated these claims has either wittingly on unwittingly taken part in a smear campaign against a journalist who has been tortured for his exposing of war crimes.
Trump said in a press conference: I don't know WikiLeaks.
On another conference he said Assange is punished to far, its a disgrace. But he did not take action on that. Busy for ekections.
I really wanted to read this article but got confronted by a wall of text.
Plenty of stuff on the internet that is readable, don't need to WORK to try to figure out WTF you are trying to say.
Some additional paragraph breaks would make the article more readable.
Just saying...