Julian Assange, Repetition, And Democracy

For technical reasons, partly related to a semi-inoperable computer, this one is a little shorter than my average. Pardon. Or you’re welcome.

On June 24, 2024, Julian Assange was finally freed after twelve years of torture and confinement. His ordeal began when he and his Wikileaks media organization made public in 2010 various war crimes committed by the US Empire in Iraq in 2007, including against unarmed civilians. In 2012, he was forced into the Ecuadorian embassy in London. In 2019, he was removed to the dreary Belmarsh prison where he fought trumped-up US criminal charges. As of 2024, the US’s superseding indictment involves one of those insane government conspiracy theories, namely “conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defense information.” The case against Assange is and has been, in legal terms, pure bullshit. If he is afforded First Amendment press protection pursuant to the 1971 Pentagon Papers case (New York Times v. US Empire), then the US has no case. If, as alleged by the US, he enjoys no such protection because he is not a US citizen, then because he was never within the jurisdiction of the US, the US has no case. Of course, as law no longer matters in the rapidly collapsing US, these points are moot. And in Assange’s particular case, a plea deal to cut the losses of all parties is, while not exactly the right thing, an acceptable thing to put an end to this ridiculous charade. 

If one listens for a minute or three, one will invariably hear some US officer, agent, or apologist mumble something about “democracy,” “free and democratic,” “rules-base,” “rules-based democracy,” or some other nonsense. One will also note, in addition to the aforementioned legal impossibility, that Assange’s persecution spans the tenure of three US presidents representing both sides of the uniparty. It might be that all that talk about rules and democracy is a lie. 

As President Vladimir noted not too long ago, no one knows what those rules are or who empowered the rule-makers. As for democracy, there are different definitions of the concept. Here, I’ll just state H.L. Mencken’s: “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” Why so many otherwise good and decent people continue to fall for the sham is a great unknown. But fall for it they do. This might lead me into another discussion that I lack the time and computing power for this week.

But democracy, like all trappings of the Enlightenment, is a hoax. In discussing something James Delingpole wrote about Nigel Farage, Vox Day recently opined, “Democracy, particularly in its limited representative form, is nothing more than a sham meant to prevent the volatile public from knowing who truly rules over them. The whole point of the political systems of the modern ‘democracies’ is not to express the will of the people, but rather, prevent it from being realized.”

This is why three US politicians, from both sides of the uniparty, pursue a wicked legal strategy not in the interests of the American people nor of much concern to them. It is also why the American people are gearing up for another fake election involving two of those three puppet politicians, one of whom has demonstrated an inability to deal with the true rulers of the US, and the other an inability to do much more than follow orders from them. 

The real rulers keep getting their way and they keep doing the same evil things. Just a few days before Assange’s release, the US abetted more war crimes against unarmed civilians. In 2007, it was an Apache airstrike on a family van in Baghdad. Lately, beach-goers in Sevastopol have been hit with ATACMS cluster munitions. 

Assange’s case proves that what truth and justice resided within the US has departed. Most of the history of the US and its clownworld empire disprove the merits of democracy. Evil genocidal maniacs commit war crimes. It’s not so much a matter of “the more things change…” but rather, a case of no one forcing changes until relatively recently. I wish Mr. Assange Godspeed, peace, and a restful recovery from his crucible. And instead of continuing to self-crucify, I wish the American people would watch how Russia deals with the crimes of the satanic rules-based democratic disorder. Maybe that last part is too much to ask for now.

Deo vindice.