Julian Assange's Victory

Wed, 04/24/2019 - 05:00

Authored by Andre Vltchek via Off-Guardian.org

Throughout history, dark and reactionary forces have always attempted to
control the world; by violence, by deceit, by kidnapping and perverting
the mainstream narrative, or by spreading fear among the masses.

Consistently, brave and honest individuals have been standing up,
exposing lies, confronting the brutality and depravity. Some have fought
against insane and corrupt rulers by using swords or guns; others have
chosen words as their weapons.

Many were cut down; most of them were.

New comrades rose up; new banners of resistance were unveiled.

To resist is to dream of a better world. And to dream is to live.

The bravest of the brave never fought for just their own countries and
cultures; they fought for the entire humanity. They were and they are
what one could easily define as “intuitive internationalists”.

Julian Assange, an Australian computer expert, thinker and humanist, had
chosen a new and mostly untested form of combat: he unleashed an entire
battalion of letters and words, hundreds of thousands of documents,
against the Western empire.

He penetrated databases which have been storing the evidence of the most
atrocious crimes the West has been committing for years and decades.
Toxic secrets were exposed; truths revealed. To those who have been
suffering in silence, both face and dignity were finally returned.

Julian Assange was a ‘commander’ of a small team of dedicated experts
and activists. I met some of them, and was tremendously impressed. But
no matter how small in numbers, this team has been managing to change
the world, or at least to give the Western public an opportunity to
know, and consequently to act.

After WikiLeaks, no one in New York, Berlin, London or Paris has any
right to say “we did not know”. If they do not know now, it is because
they have decided not to know, opportunistically and cynically.

Julian Assange and his comrades published all that the West was doing to
the Afghan people, as well as to those suffering from neo-colonialism
and imperialism all over the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Latin America.

What is it that the critics of Wikileaks are holding against Mr.
Assange? That the snitches and the agents of the Western empire got
‘exposed’? Is the world expected to feel pity for them? Are tens of
millions of victims supposed to be forgotten just so that the members of
the Western intelligence services and their lackeys could feel safe and
protected?

A few days before this essay went to print, Julian Assange was cynically
betrayed by a country which used to be governed by a socialist
administration, and which gave him political asylum and citizenship,
both. Its current ruler, Lenin Moreno, will be judged extremely harshly
by history: he’ll be remembered as a man who began dismantling the
socialist structure of Ecuador, and who then literally sold (to the
twisted British and US judiciary systems) a man who has already
sacrificed more than his life for the truth as well as for survival of
our planet.

As the Metropolitan Police dragged Julian Assange from the Ecuadorian
embassy in London into a van, the entire world could catch a glimpse of
the naked essence of the Western regime; the regime in action –
oppressive, gangrenous, murderous and vindictive.

But we should not forget: the regime is not doing it because it is
confident and strong. It is actually terrified. It is in panic. It is
losing. And it is murdering, wherever it feels ‘vulnerable’, which is,
all over the world.

Why? Because the millions, on all continents, are waking up, ready to
face Western terror, ready to fight it, if there is no other way.

It is because they now know the truth. It is because the reality cannot
be hidden; the brutality of Western global dictates is something that no
one can deny any longer. Thanks to the new media in countries that have
managed to free themselves from Western influence. And of course, thanks
to heroes like Julian Assange, and his comrades.

Julian Assange has not fallen. He was stabbed, betrayed. But he is here,
he is alive, with us; with the millions of those who support him, admire
him, and are grateful to him for his honesty, courage and integrity.

He confronted the entire Empire; the most powerful, evil, destructive
and brutal force on earth. And he managed to damage its secret
organizations, consequently spoiling some of the plans, therefore saving
lives.

All this can be considered a victory. Not the final victory, but a
victory nevertheless.

By arresting Assange, the empire showed its weakness. By dragging him
from the embassy into a police van, it has admitted that it already has
begun sewing its own funeral gown.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-...sanges-victory

On Wednesday, April 24, 2019 at 7:53:04 AM UTC-4, Home Guy wrote:
Julian Assange's Victory



Reminds me of the Monty Python movie, Search for the Holy Grail.
Two knights have a sword fight, one is decimated, all his limbs
cut off, spewing blood everywhere, and he's hopping around on
his stubs, yelling at the other knight, "come back your coward,
I'll bite your knee caps off!"