By Dustin Micheli ~ Press Monkey Media.
It has been almost 11 weeks since Wikileaks founder and editor Julian Assange had his communication and internet connection access rescinded by the Ecuadorian Government, in the London based Ecuadorian embassy where he still is maintaining residence and asylum.
The Ecuadorian Government, who recently granted Assange citizenship and is also threatening to revoke his asylum, perhaps understandably felt more than pressured to capitulate to the bellicose and aggressive behavior of the dangerous government powers such as the United Kingdom and United States.
Assange’s calling into question the official UK government narrative launched before actual investigation was done on the poisoning of a former Russian Spy and his daughter was the least of Assange’s transgressions against the United States and United Kingdom governments.
The powers that be have made it clear that there is nothing they find to be more dangerous and harmful to them than being exposed to us. They feel threatened by the very idea that we might become less subordinate and more informed.
This is partially why what Assange and Wikileaks stand for and have done for us all is so important and so dangerous.
Wikileaks is a treasure trove of insight into the inner working of and dangerous dealings of the of the world political elites and what they are willing to do to further their totalitarian imperialist agendas.
Every person who values transparency, justice, truth and accountability should be calling for and demanding freedom and justice for Julian and exoneration from prosecution for publishing leaked documents. After all, if the government is supposed to work for us, then shouldn’t we be allowed to know exactly what it is doing? Shouldn’t exposing them be a matter of prudence and obligation of a democratic minded citizenry?
You owe it to yourself to spend some time looking over any number of the leaked documents and archived material published always first by WikiLeaks, because they do not release information already published in other publications, they have a more than ten year record of 100% accurate independently verified and authenticated information and leaks.
Quick FYI : WikiLeaks is a multi-national media organization and associated library of 100% accurate and verified leaks and information. It is free to visit the website and legal to download these archives and documents for your own information, research , and/ or reporting.
The numerous pages and volumes of information exposed in the publications of Wikileaks will keep a room full of journalists and activists busy for years to come trying to sift through the otherwise unknown information and documentation.
The hours I have spent looking over the text in WikiLeaks, from the Podesta files and emails, to the Afghanistan files, prisoner treatment in Cuba at GITMO and the exposure of the mass surveillance state and FISA courts have been invaluable.
To say there are some unfound and untold stories still undiscovered and unreported in the Wikileaks publications would be an understatement I assure you.
So anyone wishing to cut their shoestring journalistic teeth would be well served to glance over and consider examining and analyzing any number of the un reported on data and info provided by the Wikileaks.org website.
( Picture above: Julian Assange outside entrance to Ecuadorian embassy)
As Julian spends his sixth year holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy as a political pariah and prisoner, it’s hard to not think of him as a kind of Journalistic Lenny Bruce paying for the sins of transparency activists and journalists everywhere. Many of whom have benefited from or re reported on information and revelations uncovered by the WikiLeaks publications.
Picture: Lenny Bruce
Much as the comic and entertainment world benefited from the professional sacrifice that the late Lenny Bruce made for the sins of free speech and comic performance. Clearing the way for comics later to come and benefit from those battles and liberties already hard fought for and won.
One of the things I realized as I read through the WikiLeaks publications and archives was how dull all the communicates between many of them really are. No wonder regular people can’t stand to sit and read any of it. The dullness of the Podesta leaks that expose how the DNC, Hillary Clinton, many mainstream media outlets, the White House, department of Justice were all rigging the Democratic primary against Bernie Sanders and the progressive movement he represented before he threw the race and got behind Hillary “ Gold Standard” Clinton.
It all sounds juicier when I frame it like that than the actual communicates between the various parties would reflect. The impact of what they were saying and doing was far more substantial than the e mails themselves were colorful about their context. Perhaps, that is why for your casual observer the findings might seem, dry obscure or meaningless, but I assure you they are not.
Consider the gravity,implications and the amount of power and influence at play. Consider all the supposed talent and accomplishment that were coalescing around the Clinton campaign to try and make her the next President of the United States.
Considering everything they were willing to do and sacrifice to accomplish that, you might think that the vernacular they used would be a little more cleaver, creative, or colorful. The content of said e mails were so dry that it was surprising they were able to be “leaked” at all.
As a side note: Randy Credico to his cedit…O Got himself thrown out of the recent White House Press Correspondence Dinner before the show actually began.
( Picture above: Randy Credico)
Randy Credico, who is a comedian, activist and journalist was reported to be walking around the event loudly pronouncing his support as well as trying to enlist it from those in the room for the Wikileaks founder.
Credico is a known associate, acquaintance and friend of Julian Assange and one of the last non-official people to have contact with Assange besides Assange’s attorneys.
As a shoestring journalist, activist and truth bringer I feel that it is of paramount importance and responsibility for us to band together to support Julian Assange, we need to try and work for his secure release and relocation before something happens and it’s too late.
If Ecuador suspends or ends his asylum and forces him to leave the security of the embassy, what are we going to do? We cant just leave him to the mercy of the war hawks, we must try something.
I, Know, “but what? ”
I don’t know, but we better start thinking of something fast.
I would not be the activist or motivated truth bringer that I am today without the WikiLeaks publications and what they revealed to us and taught me.
Nor would I feel I have the obligation, and mandate to do so without the example of his courageousness and effort to inform us all in the face of murderous and powerful adversity that Julian Assange has demonstrated, yet here we are.
I don’t know what or how we are to do this, but we must try to secure Julian Assange’s release and safe transport to somewhere safe in Ecuador. Even if we have to have some covert extraction or massive human shield barrier between us and the aggressive authorities should they try to take him into custody.
I know this sounds like its scary, dangerous and an impossible situation. It is , but so is the impossible situation and choices we are left with. We cannot afford to shrug our responsibility to one of our fellows, one of our own and one who has achieved so much for the sake of truth and transparency. At least I cannot.
We should not just leave Assange to the tender mercy of the so-called justice system, run by the jackals that maintain torture prisons outside of Cuba ,whom are known torture whistle blowers as a matter of course like as what happened with Chelsea Manning.
Those who have officially called for his Assange’s assassination on more than a few occasions, branded him as a dangerous agent of Russian espionage or somehow worse. it’s hard to imagine he will be given any kind of fair adjudication or due process for whatever trumped up charged they decide to throw at him.
What Julian is and does is what represents truth and the ultimate challenge to holding power and corruption accountable when and where we can.
I think the urgency of these actions and spreading of the message to help free Julian Assange is one of the most important things we can do right now. Please, if you truly value a free media, transparency and holding those who are in power accountable then you will join us and speak out to Free Julian Assange. #FreeJulian for peace and transparency.
Peace, Activism, and Bananas My Friends