I am not, by inclination or moral persuasion, a violent man but if I were to meet Julian Assange I don't think I could keep myself from punching him in the face. His smug, bottle blond visage is looking out from the interview up at NPR, a venue which has never been slow to promote anti-Clinton ratfucking as if it were reliable information. I am tempted to go through the text to point out how much of it is self-serving of Assange who is, clearly, an agent of Putin's political machine these days, intent on either getting Donald Trump - who is also a totally owned property of the neo-Soviet kleptocracy - elected president or seriously damaging Hillary Clinton if she is. I think Assange either hopes to get a pardon from Trump or to blackmail Hillary Clinton into not pressing for his extradition to the United States, fearing what WikiLeaks might accuse her of. It is the massive ego of Assange that he would, really, be willing to wreak the damage to countless millions that a Trump presidency would be so he can avoid manning up to face the consequences of his various crimes, his activities as a sexual creep or his espionage. It is a oddly modern kind of irony to be able to point out that the macho Aussi is "less of a man" than Chelsea Manning who has paid the price for stealing and passing on huge amounts of classified information.
NPR's motives in putting up that piece are quite similar to those of Assange, they, as fully invested members of the Washington, DC elite, prefer Republicans in office who will lower their taxes and otherwise profit them as parts of the six-figure income bracket. And they know their carrying Julian Assange's dirty water will win them social points with others in their elite circles and, perhaps, jobs in its better paying cabloid and broadcast media. And it will be popular with the fat cats who fund them. That they are acting as part of anti-American interests, foreign and domestic, won't count against them. It's never unpatriotic to slam Democrats in that establishment, especially when the Democrat is a Clinton and especially when it's Hillary Clinton who has always had a special place in their list of those who are to be automatically vilified. Even those on the "left" of that elite were more favorable to Bill Clinton. Don't for a second allow yourself to suspect that her being a woman doesn't account for easily half of that.
I would favor Barack Obama, in the rest of his term, putting maximum pressure on Ecuador to expel Julian Assange from its embassy as an agent of a foreign government attempting to undermine the United States. I would favor his extradition to the United States and his prosecution for espionage against the American People - with his activities in this election campaign, acting as an agent of the Putin dictatorship, there is no question that is what he is about. I would like to see him opened up to real scrutiny in a courtroom with evidence presented and tested. I don't much cotton to the likes of him trying to mess with our elections. If he is convicted I favor him receiving the maximum sentence allowed by law and he wanted to negotiate something less, see what he's got to trade.
More so, though, I would welcome some real investigation into the motives of the American media in this incredible scenario in which Republicans are running, in effect, a KGB asset aided and abetted by a man who has been presented as a hero of human rights, press freedom and privacy rights - also working for the Putin regime, one of the premier practitioners of violating those rights, and aided by the American media which would be the first to wave the flag and proclaim their devotion to the American system of governance which is being attacked by all of them. The media in the United States is the primary failure in American democracy, it, from farthest right to alleged left have discredited themselves, over and over again, with few exceptions, especially in the media with real power, TV and radio.
And that is only a very partial and very simplified presentation of the Gordian knot that these intertwining issues are. I haven't mentioned the rumors about Ivanka Trump's vacationing in Croatia with Wendi Deng Murdoch (Rupert's ex) who is now Vladimir Putin's girlfriend. Imagine if a Democrat did that, what the press would be making of it. Imagine what messages they might have passed for those close to them. I doubt WikiLeaks will be revealing anything like that.
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