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He has paid a big price for his designation as a hero. I am not even sure if it was courage that drove him to his honest reporting which I admire and am grateful for. I just have an issue with putting people into the hero category for any reason. I think it is dehumanizing, tho I am sure that is not your intention.
I love this piece, extremely well written. Yes, Assange deserves much more than he has received for his work. He is a hero to all journalists.
I also feel for his wife and have great respect for the way she has continued to fight for him. Maybe consider telling us more about her in a future article, so we can all keep him in our thoughts and prayers.
Free Julian Assange! Thanks for writing this and attempting to correct some of the smears, George! Check out this list of tagged Assange posts from IndieMediaToday
I know you do and if hero is a good thing, then he deserves to be called a hero. I am trying to say is that I think the hero designation brings some problems with it and it sometimes obscures the real value of what someone has accomplished.
I don't see Assange as a hero because I think we should avoid making heroes of anyone. He is a journalist who did some really important journalism and exposed crimes being committed by the US military in Iraq. He exposed criminal acts being committed in Iraq by the US government. That is what his "crime" is. Good, honest journalism. Subsequently more crimes have been committed by the UK government, by Ecuador and now by Australia for aiding and abetting the US in their persecution of Assange. Another instance where the western "democratic" world is showing itself to be a lot less than democratic and more like an authoritarian regime.
Along with the swallowing of the absurd, childish framing in which the US and its lapdogs are The Good Guys and the people running this empire must not be questioned, and anyone born within one of these nations should have a mindless loyalty to it, is the false narrative in which Julian's publications were "careless" or "reckless." In fact he went to a lot of trouble to redact names--someone working for the Guardian published the code that led to the unredacted version, for which he has never been charged or even defamed, because he vilified Assange and the Empire understands Assange as the real enemy, the person whose insights, courage and computer skills enabled the creation of Wkileaks, which for awhile was a safe place to leak documents that proved governmental malfeasance. The mafia running this empire know they can rely on the mass media to put forth whatever narrative they're told to put forth, even if it's obviously distorted (the Jews are such victims, antisemitism is rampant, the Palestinians are all terrorists!). Wilileaks, with Julian at the helm, blew a hole in that network of lies.
( I ) 🇵🇸🍉 say yea to this to this piece of writing, here in the U S the Democratic Party has made the word , Transparency one of the planks of their platform, all the while working behind the scenes to ensure The Man never sees the light of day, the entire Western world is a very bad joke.
Found it. The Australian, murdoch's flagship "respectable" paper. SonIndong think it's journalistic malpractice - this is straight up deliberate propoganda on behalf of the United states.
That is the exact article I saw, but I don't remember where. Probably in a discussion list I am on. Thanks. I am relieved to know I am not imagining things.
you are right Susan but he still remains a hero because of his courage
He has paid a big price for his designation as a hero. I am not even sure if it was courage that drove him to his honest reporting which I admire and am grateful for. I just have an issue with putting people into the hero category for any reason. I think it is dehumanizing, tho I am sure that is not your intention.
well said Mary
I love this piece, extremely well written. Yes, Assange deserves much more than he has received for his work. He is a hero to all journalists.
I also feel for his wife and have great respect for the way she has continued to fight for him. Maybe consider telling us more about her in a future article, so we can all keep him in our thoughts and prayers.
thank you Amanda and will do.
I think you will do a great job at highlighting her efforts, thank you.
Free Julian Assange! Thanks for writing this and attempting to correct some of the smears, George! Check out this list of tagged Assange posts from IndieMediaToday
https://www.indiemediatoday.com/t/julian-assange
here here!!
My pleasure Kali.
that’s fair and i understand your rationale Susan
i think he’s well and truly deserving of the title.
I know you do and if hero is a good thing, then he deserves to be called a hero. I am trying to say is that I think the hero designation brings some problems with it and it sometimes obscures the real value of what someone has accomplished.
I don't see Assange as a hero because I think we should avoid making heroes of anyone. He is a journalist who did some really important journalism and exposed crimes being committed by the US military in Iraq. He exposed criminal acts being committed in Iraq by the US government. That is what his "crime" is. Good, honest journalism. Subsequently more crimes have been committed by the UK government, by Ecuador and now by Australia for aiding and abetting the US in their persecution of Assange. Another instance where the western "democratic" world is showing itself to be a lot less than democratic and more like an authoritarian regime.
Along with the swallowing of the absurd, childish framing in which the US and its lapdogs are The Good Guys and the people running this empire must not be questioned, and anyone born within one of these nations should have a mindless loyalty to it, is the false narrative in which Julian's publications were "careless" or "reckless." In fact he went to a lot of trouble to redact names--someone working for the Guardian published the code that led to the unredacted version, for which he has never been charged or even defamed, because he vilified Assange and the Empire understands Assange as the real enemy, the person whose insights, courage and computer skills enabled the creation of Wkileaks, which for awhile was a safe place to leak documents that proved governmental malfeasance. The mafia running this empire know they can rely on the mass media to put forth whatever narrative they're told to put forth, even if it's obviously distorted (the Jews are such victims, antisemitism is rampant, the Palestinians are all terrorists!). Wilileaks, with Julian at the helm, blew a hole in that network of lies.
( I ) 🇵🇸🍉 say yea to this to this piece of writing, here in the U S the Democratic Party has made the word , Transparency one of the planks of their platform, all the while working behind the scenes to ensure The Man never sees the light of day, the entire Western world is a very bad joke.
Thank you George Hazim, and thank you for your direct message too. (I found it in my inbox yesterday.) :)
#TravestyOfJustice #JournalismIsNotACrime #FreeJulianAssange #DropTheCharges
#PoliticalPrisoner #TORTURED #FreeJulianAssangeNOW
Which Australian newspaper?
I tried to find that article, but the site where I read it cannot be reached now. I think it might have been strategic-culture.org but is does not load now. It could have been this article: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/newslondon/where-is-julian-assange-now-and-what-happens-next-to-the-wikileaks-founder/ar-BB1lrYMd but I remember whatever I read as referencing an Australian newspaper. Maybe my memory is playing tricks with me.
Found it. The Australian, murdoch's flagship "respectable" paper. SonIndong think it's journalistic malpractice - this is straight up deliberate propoganda on behalf of the United states.
That is the exact article I saw, but I don't remember where. Probably in a discussion list I am on. Thanks. I am relieved to know I am not imagining things.