Why Assange Should and Will Go Free

Why Assange Should and Will Go Free

I have to keep updating this peice because so many issues arise that the absudity gets greater by the minute. 

The first question I have is this:  What would happen if the media actually did its job, and lie by lie it exposed the entire imperial chronology of the U.S. for what it really is, but instead of doing it all at once as is now the case given the Wikileaks revelations, it did it issue by issue as they presented themselves?  Let’s say the chemical weapons lies were debunked by the media, is that treason?  Let’s say the nuclear weapons lies were debunked by the media when they was presented, would that be treason?  Let’s say the media exposed the yellow cake uranium lies as soon as Condi Rice opened her mouth, would that be treason?  How about if the tortures, renditions and murders were exposed when they first occurred, would that be treason?  How about the missing tens of billions of dollars?  How about if the the warrantless wiretapping was exposed immediately?  How about the fact that Cheney exposed Plame and Brewster and Jennings as a CIA front and the media reported his treason, would that be treason?  Would exposing the lying about the Iranian laptop and the Iraqi nuclear documents have been treason if the forgeries were exposed from the outset?  The list of crimes can go on and on, but the question is:  If the government lies are exposed one by one as they present themselves, would that be treason?  Would Leiberman supporting the treason committed by Franklin, Weiss, Rosen and the AIPAC be treason?  How about Rep. Jane Harmon interferring with the espionage investigation of the above named individuals, would that be treason?  Would Alberto Gonzales dropping the treason, espionage and obstruction charges against Harmon for signing on to Bush’s telecom immunity bill be treason?  It should be clear by now that the the people running this country are lawless and should themselves be prosecuted and hanged.  

How far our nation has come from being one where the 1st Amendment was as close to a national religion as anything secular can come, to being the nation that curses the internet while making itself look like a fool by being the dung-encrusted elephant that takes on a million flies.  The internet has shown the U.S. government is no match for 4th Generation cyberwarfare.  Just as a centrally-planned and controlled fighting force was exposed as a slow-moving behemoth that is no match for 4th Generation Warfare warriors, the internet has proven to be the silver bullet for totalitarian governments regardless of if the government is located in Asia or North America.  No matter what was said about how great life was in other countries, we always told ourselves that none of that mattered because we had freedom of speech.  Well, not so much anymore.

If Nazi Germany, Iran, China, Russia, Venezuela, Cuba or Saddam’s Iraq had documents transferred to an American journalist living abroad, and the journalist decided to publish the material on the internet to expose the crimes of the above named countries’ regimes, would any U.S. politicians be calling for that journalist’s death? 

If China decided to invade a country and every single premise upon which the aggressive war was based proved to be in error, and lies regarding WMDs had been exposed through  the most intrusive international weapons inspection programs in the history of the world, and a complete accounting for 99% of all production and storage sites proved no stockpiles, would the U.S. be negotiating with China on how to allow a third country to render the American journalist to China?

Imagine if the lies China then used to execute an illegal invasion were based on Cheney’s One Percent Doctrine, that being a doctrine that says even if another country has only a one percent chance of carrying out a terrorist attack against China, China has the right to conduct and invasion, occupation, and replacement of that nation’s government.

Imagine if all of China’s reasons to invade were proven to be wildly overstated by China’s own intelligence services and the costs to that nation were wildly understated by its politicians while being hidden from their citizens, would the U.S. conclude that China’s secretiveness and security should be respected?

And, for once, please don’t bring up 9/11.  The secret documents have already exposed that there was no connection between Saddam and al Qaeda, 9/11, or bin Laden.  In fact, the intelligence documents prove that Bush’s bedfellows, the Saudis, were the culprits not only behind 9/11, but also are main source of terror in Iraq.  Now let me ask you this question: As a nation, are we better off or worse off to know this actual fact, that fact  being it is the Saudi’s whom are our enemy.  The only ones who want this fact hidden and are better off for having it hid are the elite who are in bed with the House of Saud.

Meanwhile, the State Department cables show that there had been even more lies being forged by the ruling class for yet another false casus belli, that being the blaming of Iran for attacks against U.S. soldiers.  It seems Americans want, in fact need and demand, to be lied to.

Now imagine China engaged in deception and disinformation operations to fool its own citizens so as to be able to garner mass public support for a world-wide campaign to engage in terror and military strikes against Christian nations because some terror group from a Western nation engaged in a terror strike against China.  While attacking Christian nations, let’s say China decided to conduct regime change in Mexico and overthrow their government to install a pro-Chinese government that allowed military bases for China and was anti-American to its core.  Isn’t this exactly what we are doing to Iran through Iraq?

Let’s imagine the U.S. then began to protest these moves as aggressive and hostile, and while the U.S. was allowing U.N. investigators to monitor its military to prove the U.S. was not going to attack China, China decided to fund terrorist groups of the variety that America has unleashed on Iran, groups like the MEK and Jundullah whom then begin to carry out a national terror campaign.  While this is going on, imagine China began assassinating American scientists whose expertise was considered great economic and strategic assets.

Now imagine if China’s ruling elites were all heavily invested in the defense industry and it was apparent that war was in their economic interest at the expense of the rest of the nation.  Would the U.S. be charging an Australian with treason for pointing such facts to the world and the Chinese people?  The paradigm the U.S is establishing is straight out of Orwell’s 1984.  It seems it is true that those whom control imperial power seek to manipulate the masses so that indeed war is peace, freedom is slavery and most importantly, ignorance is strength.  Libertarians have held that all government is inherently alike when push comes to shove.  It seems this maxim is proving to be a tenet in the new world order.  Americans should be embarrassed that our rulers feed us such waste and yet we clamor for more.

It defies belief that our media refuses to allow citizens to the opportunity to expose and comment on the criminality of our government.  The partnership between the media and the government goes far beyond any model Goebbels could have envisioned, let alone implemented.  The voluntary manipulations of seamless filtering, self-censorship, framing of debate and outright execution of disinformation and propaganda campaigns directed against the American people through a centralized media conglomeration are something that could never be centrally directed.  This model works so perfectly because those whom control it are acting in unison toward the exact same goals, that being the domination of economic, political and social order.

Future generations of Americans will look back on this episode of American history and wonder why we destroyed their future.  They will wonder how an country supposedly steeped in the tradition of self-government could not have seen such disaster coming, nor did anything about it when it was evident.  We have allowed our government to turn us into little children whom believe whatever lie the grownups profess.  We believe their every promise and worship them through the eyes of little children seeking to believe in their omnipotence and infallibility.  And, they have played us like suckers.  One would think grown-ups would seek to put away their beliefs in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy.  But, it seems as the world crumbles around us, a crumbling caused by a refusal to acknowledge the fact that we turned our backs on the responsibility of being an informed citizenry as opposed to propagandized one, we continue to fiddle.

Why is it that Americans want to think the paradigms put in place by our elite have any semblance to reality?  The institutions and power they control have allowed them to collude against us and limit our debate, and thusly our very thought processes and perception of reality.  Americans should rememeber that they have not been organized by a supreme being, but were the result of elites sitting together deciding on how best to maintain wealth, power and privilege. 

It would only take an opening of our eyes to see the truth, which is why our elite and those who seek to continue to clutch on to the child-parent relationship between themselves and government see Wikileaks as such a threat.  Americans should think of Wikileaks as Reality Government since “Reality TV” seems to hold so much facination for so many.

Our founders thought of government as fire.  They found it to be a useful servant, but a terrible master.  Yet, we allow politicians who have lied to us so grotesquely for so long to now be the arbiters of life and death mete out as punishment because someone committed the crime of opening Americans’ eyes to the inner workings of government. 

To read the Wikileaks documents one needs a strong background in history, philosophy, economics, psychology, government and current events to correctly understand all the implications of our representatives lying to us, to each other and to themselves.  But, how can any foundational framework be built on such nonsense.  We attack countries that did nothing to us.  We use the attacks upon us, that were funded by our supposed allies, to blame others for in an effort to foment more armed conflict that has already destroyed most of our middle class wealth.  Then we insist our government maintain the right to lie to us and protect this prerogative so strongly that we demand that those telling the truth be executed.  An Iraqi official stated, “America’s problem is that its friends are friends with its enemies, and its enemies are friends with its friends.  In such a state of cognitive dissonance we attempt to build a coherent foreign policy while ideological paradoxes create schizophrenic constructs.  Moreover, it seems we have developed a unique talent for existing in such a world as this even though that reality can only be held together through violence, lies and thought control.

We revel in being able to hold two opposing beliefs, that being that government is our servant while also seeking for it to be master.  We want the rule of law, yet we insist that this rule be maintained by imperial edicts, elite lawlessness, torture and murder.  We want to know the truth about matters that are inconsequential, but we remain willfully ignorant of matters that involve trillions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives.  We extol the virtues of self-government, yet elect elites who constantly subvert our interests.  We know we are lied to about everything, but hold on to these lies with the fervent hope of a dying man who has just found religion.  We complain about corporate crooks and crooked politicians, and then believe every lie they utter as they walk away with trillions of dollars of taxpayer money.  Then, when someone tells us the truth about such crimes we call that person a kook and his label his accurate assessments as radical and ridiculous.  We know that our current situation is unsustainable and yet we continue to elect the same people to do the same things while expecting a different outcome.  We continue to hold on to a status quo that is obviously taking us over a cliff and leading to our ruin.  We laugh at accurate predictions for the future in which the outcomes were demonstrably inevitable and a mathematical certainty, yet we continue to take the word of charlatans whose predictions, prescriptions, and assessments have proven to be the fantasy of a bizarro-world’s ideology for a dystopia.  We tell ourselves that the crimes of our elite are always legitimate while legitimate self-defense and others legal actions by others become transformed into being illegal attacks upon our nation.  The incongruence seems to know no limits. 

At such a point, when reality can no longer be discussed, we hold on to our false reality as everything slips through our hands.  We seem not to understand why things are getting worse while we listen to the demagoguery of the Limbaughs and Hannities, and the envy and discontent of Obama and Hillary. 

The last desperate act of a falling empire is to try to kill its way to utopia.  We begin to believe our government when it tells us that if only we can keep killing  those who expose us, oppose us and refuse to support us, we will eventually be happy and prosperous again.  Yet, we refuse to accept that by striking out at reality we are only delaying an inevitiable outcome that will not get better with denial and time.  So, as we plan Assange’s imprisonment and murder, there are realities that we need to accept.  The consequences of killing the messenger will only make future matters worse.  Our hypocrisy has placed us in so many conundrums regarding Assange and Wikileaks that the implications of the issues involved will be the basis for books that will be written by the hundreds and serve as the documentation of how America lost its last vestiges of

freedom.

Some in the media are suggesting we should self-censor so as not to create a situation in which the government is censoring us.  The absurdity is overwhelming.   If society becomes afraid to use a free-speech medium, regardless of its type, for fear that it government might begin censorship, it is no longer a free-speech medium. If we, or Assange, should begin to be selective about what we publish on the Internet for fear it could become restricted, then we ourselves will have become the ones who render it useless as a disseminator of free speech.  We are the very messengers we will have killed.  It makes one laugh that someone’s answer to the Wikileaks problem would be to electively stiffle dissent so that you won’t be restricted non-electively? It is an issue such as this from which revolutions are born.  Such a position would clearly be the end of free press.  Why would Americans throw away a right for whcih we would be willing to die by the millions? 

Yet, while our government attacks free speech, freedom of speech is alive and well in today’s technology-oriented society.  The Internet allows us, and Assange, to find ways to overcome institutionally imposed restrictions as the state is a slow-moving and inept doofus whose only tools are force, lies and ignorance.

Just like in Iraq, the government’s incompetence, hubris, ignorance and heavy-handedness will continue to cause it to look stupid, impotent and incompetent.  Our government touts its great successes of cyber-attacking Wikileaks while everyone knows the experts who are hitting at the corporate/military/industrial complex are the ones with the upper hand.  Meanwhile, Jullian Assange delivers ultimatums even during his time behind bars.  That is the biggest threat to American power, the fact that it only takes on person to get the ball rolling.  And, if the U.S. tries to murder Assange, you can bet the “Shot Heard Across The Internet” will be a bullet that completely kills American prestige and any last remaining shreds of credibility.  It may not be long before Saudi Arabia decides to start cutting deals with bin Laden, especially after the U.S. State Department identified the Sauds as the leading sponser of the tactic the U.S. has declared war on, that tactic being terror.  

It is actually quite pleasant to see someone tell the government “F_ _K YOU and finish with the upper hand that keeps getting stronger.  Will Obama now begin taking down the internet?  Will we be be subjected to North Korean censorship?  Will our liberties continue to be infringed upon?  The blessing of immediate information has taken the decision-making prerogatives out from behind the walls of rooms with marble floors and placed it in cyberspace where sheer force is left wanting when competing in the realm of ideas. Could it be possible that the Project for a New American Century will be replaced by the Project for a New Anarchist Century? 

America has made so many enemies for so many reason that it has finally lost count.  In its hubris it has done the greatest harm to itself when it has abused its power just for the sake of showing it can exercise irresponsible and unaccountable power.  The U.S. has declared war on the world and is now beginning to suffer from attrition while fighting quagmires it could have easily avoided. Our government now may hold the distiction of being the first nation to lose a cyber war by deciding to fight a cyberspace battle of no tactical importance but with unimaginable strategic consequences.  It may find it has no better chance of winning any strategic objectives in cyberspace than it can in the land battle for which it now finds itself muddied in Southwest Asia.  Its enemies now look at it disdainfully knowing it is wallowing in stupidity.  The smart bomb has proven it is no match for the Smart Phone.  It is this fact that has placed the U.S. in an untennable position.

As my personal guru, Justin Raimondo has so insightfully explained,

This recalls the key insights of Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich von Hayek, the libertarian theorists of the “Austrian” school, whose critique of socialism was that imperfect knowledge dooms efforts by central authorities to regulate business and fix prices. 

Our rulers, however, have other ideas. Armed with computer technology, and the hubris of scientism – which purports to wear the mantle of science – they think they can get around the inherent limitations of the human condition, and control the uncontrollable. What they didn’t take into account was that such hubris induces opposition – and so the first cyberwar has begun. 

It is a war the US government, with all its resources, cannot win, because the nature of the technology – the weaponry – has defeated it before even the first shot was fired. And make no mistake: that first shot was fired by Washington, not Assange – an act of aggression our puffed-up rulers will live to regret.”

I personally can not think of anything funnier than the U.S. having to engage in propaganda to hide the fact that it is now losing a cyberwar it initiated to battle one person.  Talk about mistakes regarding issues of economy of scale.  It seems our government is not going to be happy until it creates the perfect mismatch whereby one person ends up taking down an entire empire.  What a heck of a job resume that would make for Assange.  But, when you create a billion enemies for a billion different reasons, you may find yourself in a very difficult negotiating position. 

The U.S. government has proven itself so incompetent that it can’t even keep its most secret communications from making front page news.  How do you expect it could ever restrict the internet without turning America into a complete totalitarian state that its own citizenry will want to smash.  When this occurs I hope the first official act of the new republic will be to punish its former leaders for their hubris, war crime and crimes against humanity.