The Death of Truth and Julian Assange

[Peace Patriot]

12. "part of the terrifying metamorphosis of the 'war on terror' into a wider war on civil liberties."

"The global assault—which saw Australia threaten to revoke Assange’s passport—is part of the terrifying metamorphosis of the 'war on terror' into a wider war on civil liberties. It has become a hunt not for actual terrorists but a hunt for all those with the ability to expose the mounting crimes of the power elite."--from the OP

"Haven’t they (reporters working in the 'old media&quot realized that this is a war by a global corporate elite not against an organization or an individual but against the freedom of the press and democracy?" --from the OP

Both of these quotes have the ring of truth. It is unmistakable when you hear it. The sound reverberates through bits of knowledge you may have, puzzles you have encountered, things you didn't understand, things that seemed like government jabberwocky, things that didn't add up, all sorts of things that you hear about and think about, and it provides FORM and MEANING to disparate facts and events that are, in truth, related, but whose relatedness you couldn't quite articulate to yourself. Why are Assange, and Manning, and Snowden, all three, in one kind of prison or another, when all they've done is to INFORM the public of illegal, horrible or highly questionable actions of government, corporate and military rulers?

There is a war on, and that war is USING "terrorism" to assert unprecedented and unconscionable power over all people and all social, economic and political systems. We, the ordinary people of the U.S. and the world, are "the enemy," and anyone who tries to inform us about the true nature of this war is "enemy no.1."

I have long thought that 9/11 was just too convenient to the ruling powers for making war on the Constitution, on the Geneva Conventions, on the UN Charter, on the Uniform Code of Military Justice and on numerous other laws, systems and traditions that protect human rights and human life. Just too, too convenient. So the question MUST be asked, as with the Reichstag Fire: Did they do it? And when you start turning to the evidence about that, all sorts of black holes appear where information should be.

Not to mention their robbing us blind. But deeper. Have they ravaged our very brains? Not that there aren't "terrorists" in the world. There are. And then you find out that the main "terrorist" group that is mentioned, Al Qaeda, was a creation of the CIA (in the U.S. secret war to drive Russia out of Afghanistan). Then you find out many other things, and their whole story about "terrorism" begins to unravel as a coherent tale that "justifies" vast spying, vast repression, hunting and torturing whistleblowers, drone bombing people all over the world without benefit of accusation or trial, and anyone else standing around, with no public accountability whatsoever, and all the rest. When someone speaks the truth, as Chris Hedges has done above, it vibrates like a church bell far, wide and deep.

The U.S. treatment of Assange, Manning and Snowden reverberates BACK to the beginning of this alleged "war on terror" and changes it meaning to: the USEFULNESS of "terror." What a boondoggle! And what a fascist wet dream!