The Stalinist Trial of Julian Assange
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The Stalinist Trial of Julian Assange
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#2People like him should be honored and if not considered heroes, at least be remembered as people who standed for freedom.
Instead they go under trial and their life ruined.
This is our world.
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#3Quick bit of recent background on the author, I don't think it's an ad hominem as it's at least peripherally relevant to the matter of what's being discussed here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pilger#Russia
> On the Poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury, Wiltshire on 4 March 2018, Pilger said in an interview on RT (formerly Russia Today): "This is a carefully constructed drama as part of the propaganda campaign that has been building now for several years in order to justify the actions of NATO, Britain and the United States, towards Russia. That’s a fact"
> "Without a single piece of evidence, the US and its NATO allies and their media machines blamed ethnic Russian 'separatists' in Ukraine and implied that Moscow was ultimately responsible". He asserted that "the newspaper has made no serious attempt to examine who shot the aeroplane down and why".
That said, he's not wrong, but as with Assange the motivation and choices aren't what can be called honest journalism.
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#4It's funny how indifferent everyone is about this. If you read about atrocious events that happened in history you often wonder why nobody stepped up.
And here we are, things like this are happening in 2020 and almost nobody cares. Almost all of us choose comfort and a frictionfree life over morality when it comes down to it.
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#5The trial might be unfair, but it's tone deaf to call it "Stalinist".
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#6People like him should be honored and if not considered heroes, at least be remembered as people who standed for freedom. Instead they go under trial and their life ruined. This is our world.
Always has been. I don't know how to remove this curse.
I think there's something wrong with humans, the institutions they build, the traps they fall into, something is up.
We somehow still manage to stumble our way through, we destroy just a vanishingly smidgen less then the vital amount that would collapse everything, usually - every now and then we don't even do that.
There must be something darwinian about it, just marginally competent enough to survive, but never competent enough to thrive.
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#7People like him should be honored and if not considered heroes, at least be remembered as people who standed for freedom. Instead they go under trial and their life ruined. This is our world.
Wikileaks had such a strong Western bias that it hurt democratic movements in third world countries. So no, it's not that black and white.
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#8It's weird that a Russia Today talking head would find Stalinism a negative.
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#9The phrase "Stalinist trial" normally refers to either a staged trial [1] or to a trial-by-three without due process [2]. Which of these applies to Julian Assange?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Trials [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NKVD_troika
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#10People like him should be honored and if not considered heroes, at least be remembered as people who standed for freedom. Instead they go under trial and their life ruined. This is our world.
Wikileaks had such a strong Western bias that it hurt democratic movements in third world countries. So no, it's not that black and white.
I have to admit I don't know a lot about the history of Wikileaks (I was still in school when they started going after Assange), but how did it hurt democratic movements in developing countries?