Julian Assange: Surveillance Apparatus ‘a Threat to U.S. Democracy’

[Uncle Joe]

37. I disagree with Assange re: his economic remedy but I understand his point view.

I totally disagree him re: his endorsement of The American Libertarian Party unless he did so with the thought that pulling the Republican Party from its' all out authoritarian myopia would result in the Democratic Party following suit.

Both major political parties; great shift to the authoritarian quadrant are the force that empowered the recent rise of the American Libetarian Party, giving them much needed propganda.

The two major political parties left a vacuum which the ALP was more than happy to fill.

For the past 40 years both parties have been pulled so far to the right wing authoritarian quadrant, that this has increasingly endangered the American Peoples' civil liberties and resulted in evergrowing monopolies, trusts, and corporate supremacy; which has in turn dominated "We the Peoples'" Government.

Having said that, the American Libertarian Party is not the answer to monopoly, but rather both parties, in particular the Democratic Party shifting more to its' own liberal, progressive, libertarian political quadrant.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange

According to Assange, "It's not correct to put me in any one philosophical or economic camp, because I've learned from many. But one is American libertarianism, market libertarianism. So as far as markets are concerned I'm a libertarian, but I have enough expertise in politics and history to understand that a free market ends up as monopoly unless you force them to be free."[327]

He advocates a "transparent" and "scientific" approach to journalism, saying that "you can't publish a paper on physics without the full experimental data and results; that should be the standard in journalism."[328][329] Assange has called himself "extremely cynical".[70] He has been described as being largely self-taught and widely read on science and mathematics,[49] and as thriving on intellectual battle.[102]

In 2008, Assange published an article entitled "The Hidden Curse of Thomas Paine," in which he wrote, "What does it mean when only those facts about the world with economic powers behind them can be heard, when the truth lays naked before the world and no one will be the first to speak without payment or subsidy?"[330]

In 2012, Assange stated that he has read the World Socialist Web Site "for many years" and appreciated the site's accuracy, though he avoided its commentary on what he called "socialist sectarian issues."[331]

In August 2013, Assange voiced support for Ron and Rand Paul, and the libertarian wing of the United States Republican Party, calling the latter "the only useful political voice really in the U.S. Congress."[332][333]