In that vein, Max Blumenthal on Loud and Clear, described a number of current
new efforts to censor various information sources, to make them less
accessible, and eventually, inaccessible to the public. Among them, are the
programs on RT and Sputnik. Chris Hedges has had a regular program on RT. Loud
and Clear, with its mostly left of center guests and sometimes, Conservative
thinkers, is on Sputnik. They're defining alternative websites, like Mint
Press, which provide some of the only accurate news available, as
untrustworthy. No doubt, the Grayzone, Consortium News, and my favorite
podcasts will be considered to be questionable sources. We'll be left with The
New York Times, The Washington Post, and Cable News to feed us what they want
us to know. There's a lot of money and effort going into this.
Miriam
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2019 2:23 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: The Stitching-Up of Julian Assange and Daniel
Ellsberg
Back in Colonial times, in a small town named Salem, mindless fools spread
mindless tales of mindless fear, to mindless townspeople. The result has
become known as, The Salem Witch Hunt.
The use of the Salem Witch Hunt is far more descriptive than simply calling the
condition, Mass Hysteria or Mass Hypnosis. Salem Witch Hunt carries an
undercurrent of stupid, mindless behavior. Salem Witch Hunt is behavior that
calls for a conclusion based on wild speculation. And as far as I'm concerned,
we are up to our eyes in misinformation and false news being spread by the
Corporate American Empire's Mass Media.
Carl Jarvis
On 12/30/19, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The Stitching-Up of Julian Assange and Daniel Ellsberg By Keith Davis,
The Australian Independent Media Network
30 December 19
So while we sit on our arses and fiddle with our fingers a brave son
of Australia is about to be thrown to the wolves.
It would pay us well to read, and reflect upon, the following
transcript between the President of the United States, his National
Security Adviser, and his Attorney General.
The background to the transcript is that a journalist had just
published an article in The New York Times. The article was the first
installment of seven thousand pages of highly classified documents
that exposed the decision-making process that had led the United
States into an interminably long and destructive war.
Earlier, on the same day that the transcript was recorded, June 30,
the U.S.
Supreme Court, citing the First Amendment, ruled 6-3 that the Times
had the right to publish the stolen documents.
The journalist who published the article stated that "It was just an
exquisite moment of vindication for the freedom of the press in this
country and how important it is."
The President, on that very same day ordered his Attorney General to
discredit the source of the documents, a man who had just been
indicted by a federal grand jury under the questionable strictures of
the Espionage Act of 1917. Sound familiar?
The redactions in the transcript are mine.
President: Don't you agree that we have to pursue the . (redacted) case?
Attorney General: No question about it. No question about it. This is
the one sanction we have, is to get at the individuals .
President: Let's get the son of a bitch into jail.
National Security Advisor: We've got to get him, we've got to get him .
President: Don't worry about his trial. Just get everything out. Try
him in the press. Try him in the press. Everything, . (redacted), that
there is on the investigation, get it out, leak it out. We want to
destroy him in the press. Is that clear?
Attorney General: Yes.
So even though the highest Court in America ruled that the release of
the documents was both lawful, and in the public interest, the
President and his administration sought to go after, jail, and
demolish those who were involved in the leaking of the documents.
And so Julian Assange sits rotting in a British jail while a case is
concocted against him. And so our Australian Government sits on its
arse and does not have the fortitude to confront Trump and his
administration, and so the majority of our Quiet Australians (those
perennial supplicants at the altar of the Big Lie) sit on their arses,
while a brave son of Australia is thrown to the wolves.
There are some here in Australia who have had the courage to speak up,
but far too many more of either political persuasion have not had the
moral courage to speak up.
I don't know what books Julian Assange has access to in his jail cell,
but if he has access to the one I have just read, I don't doubt that
he would be reflecting upon the depth of betrayal, and the rankness of
the betrayal, that has been sent his way by his own people, his own
Australian people.
Let
alone what his thoughts also might be about the Americans at the
highest level of power who are going for his jugular.
We all like to think that the ability of those in power to suppress
truth and to threaten the journalists who publish that truth is
diminished by a long societal memory of previously exposed scandals,
and by the very vigilance of an informed and concerned populace. Well,
that is simply not so. We live in an era where truth is far more
strongly suppressed than it ever was, where the populace is apathetic
and supportive of political populism, and where the journalists who
expose that suppression of truth are pursued with the full force of
the State.
Those of you with a knowledge of history might well ask what parallel
is there between the cases of Daniel Ellsberg and Julian Assange,
between the release of The Pentagon Papers and the Wikileaks
Documents? For that is the question that I have unfolded above for you
to think about. The transcript quoted above was recorded in 1971 and
Daniel Ellsberg was the target. The transcripts concerning Julian Assange are
being recorded right now.
I think you are intelligent enough to work out the multiple parallels
between both cases for yourselves.
The transcript participants (recorded on June 30, 1971): President
Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, John Mitchell.
The transcript and other relevant information quoted from the book:
The Vietnam War - An Intimate History, by Geoffrey C. Ward & Ken Burns, 2018.
The documents: The Pentagon Papers.
One source/author of the documents (target of the transcript): Daniel
Ellsberg.
Here in Australia some of our journalists and others are currently
being pursued by the full force of a middle-ranking state because of
the disclosure of secrets that our government wished to keep quiet
about - think East Timor and Afghanistan. Internationally, one of our
journalists, for that is what he is, is being pursued by the full
force of the American State because he published material, damning
material, that the American State wished to keep quiet.
The stitch-up of Julian Assange is well underway. But it will be many
decades before the transcript of the tapes of White House manoeuvring
to indict him are released for public reading.
We, the people of Australia, need to step in right now and stop the tapes.
We need to bring Julian Assange home to freedom.
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