Julian Assange is a reminder that the system built by those who're having their statues toppled, still exists

Julian Assange has been persecuted for 10 years and faces extradition to the US, for doing journalism.

THIS is Orwellian.

Toppling some monuments of racist mass-murderers, funnily enough, is not.

And Assange's persecution should be a reminder that the elitist, racist, bloody, imperial system created by those slave-trading colonisers, still exists - he has been persecuted for exposing it.

If you care about freedom and liberty, you should be defending him, not statues of colonialists!

But no, Assange is demonized, whilst we continue to celebrate and commemorate those who uphold and advance that system, from George Bush, to John McCain, to Barack Obama, just as we commemorated the original imperialists. Little has changed.

We need to come to terms with our present, not just our history.