In the ‘free and democratic’ UK, a journalist sits behind bulletproof glass, unable to speak to his lawyers, psychologically tortured, denied freedom for 10 years, denied medical care, persecuted for publishing facts about the powers that be; for unveiling corruption and war criminality.
Where’s the outrage from other journalists? Nowhere to be seen, because, unlike Wikileaks, the main function of the media organisations that they work for is to manufacture public consent for the very criminality that Assange is being persecuted for exposing. Hence their 10-year long disinformation campaign against him.
We have an illusion of free speech and opposition in our 'liberal democracies'. The media’s role is to gate-keep for the powerful, not to seriously challenge them - how can it when it is owned by them?
Real dissent that seriously threatens the plutocracy is not allowed. At best, you end up smeared (like Jeremy Corbyn) or ignored. At worst, you end up imprisoned like Assange - or bombed/sanctioned, if you’re in a disobedient country that does not want to be ruled and plundered by western corporations.
Read Craig Murray's blog for updates re Assange's extradition hearing - a 'show-trial', as Murray calls it.
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