Looking at the before and after photos of Julian Assange—just before his troubles with the state began in 2010, and after he was finally released from confinement on June 25, 2024—reminded me of Muhammed Ali’s remark about his 1975 “Thrilla in Manila” fight against Joe Frazier:
Thoughts and prayers for Assange and his family as they pick up the pieces after this--and for any other western journalists who still have integrity, who are doubtless now debating the high cost to them of telling the truth when whistleblowers approach them.
Shutting us up. That's obviously a huge part of the regime's and the deep state's agenda. That's what the persecution of Assange was all about, not about breaking any laws. Assange revealed their crimes. Can't have that, you know.
Shutting us up was what the crimes perpetrated by the evil monsters on and in support of the J6 committee was all about. That's what Mr. Magoo's stupid "Red Light" Philadelphia speech and several others have been about - shutting us up and simultaneously trying to divide us
We've gotta be brave. We don't have the megaphone or private security people such as Tucker Carlson have, but at least for now, we have this and a few other platforms.
They may bust through my door and kill me, as they have others, but they cannot make me live under their tyranny.
LOL! Did you ever see the movie Jailhouse Rock, staring Elvis Presley?
My favorite line in the movie is when Elvis, recently released from prison is attending a highbrow cocktail party, when a woman asks him a ridiculous question, to which Elvis replies: "Lady, I don't know what the hell you talkin' about."
I use "cheese and crackers" as an exclamation in lieu of "sonofabitch" or "fuckmetotears", when someone posts something ridiculous like "Assange has always been more a publishing editor than a journalist."
Manning was a U.S. citizen and subject to U.S. law. He also acted in the capacity of a whistleblower. Because of his occupation (being in the military), the enraged parties were able to throw him in prison where they effectively tortured him into thinking he was a woman and left him a very confused mess. It's possible that they blew all of their vindictiveness on him in the course of that.
Assange, however, was out of reach, first in an embassy and then in a secure prison facility in the U.K. He is also an Australian citizen. He is NOT (and has never been) subject to U.S. laws, not that that has at all stopped the enraged parties who wanted to hurt him for outing their evil.
were railroaded. Will we ever know the truth of that? Lots of info indicated they were not naive to be easily manipulated or blind to how communism is cloaked like in lambs clothing for the unsuspecting to buy in. I’d like to see real primary info exhilarating the couple if there is really any.
Assange has obviously been a scapegoat criminal when Manning was the real criminal as well as the Iceland hacker who lied against Assange to save himself. This man now in prison for hacking and lying which at the time should have pulled the wolves off Assange, sadly ignored by media. The same media who gets to vilify anyone they please
I took "converted" as a nicer way of saying the man was tortured into eventually breaking and making the plea. It's hard to say Assange's experience was torture, as we often think of it as more physical pain, but his was financial, mental, and in certain ways physical as well.
"commiting", OK. Governments resist limits on their authority, naturally, and other governments sympathize. Assange's escape from their wrath was worse that the punishment he "escaped". Finally, he was offered a "plea deal" and both sides can claim victory. As a veteran of Viet Nam and LBJ's tyranny, I appreciate his gesture.
I JUST got finished leaving a comment on another Substack, and that was......
Is he REALLY 'FREE"??
I say.......NO!
Assange is leaving one prison, and then headed to an ULTRA-MAX SECURITY Prison......AUSTRALIA!
As soon as he was released, and I read, 'Boarding a plane to Australia', I screamed.....'ARE YOU INSANE?!'. If I were Assange, there would only be ONE place that I would be heading off to.......RUSSIA!!
Assange will get to Australia, and in no time, 'THEY' will find a reason, or, more likely, MAKE ONE UP, to put his ass BACK into prison, in Australia!
And who know 'what' they did to him in the UK. Pretty sure that they FORCED the Death Jab on him.
I've read articles where the *cough* writers commented on 'how good he looks'. Sorry.....I see the opposite. I watched as he climbed the stairs to the airplane....his legs were 'shaky', like they were about to give out. And, all of those years without getting much SUN?!
This whole, 'Assange is FREE', doesn't pass the smell test, to me. I bet they DID 'Death Jab' the guy, and now they just want to 'get rid of him' (from custody), because his 'Death Clock' is winding down.....and he'll soon 'die of natural causes'. 'WHY NOW?', is he being released?? ('Doesn't Pass the Smell Test!')
Oh wow! (Death Jab) I think that that explains it. Assange doesn't have long to live (maybe Turbo Cancer??), so they wanted him OUT of their custody, before he dies. And him going to Australia, maybe that is where he wants to be buried??
Actually our moronic Labor Prime Minister welcomed the man home. That was instead of dealing with immigration, inflation and cost of living. Much easier being a fan boy. He is after Beijing’s ‘handsome boy’.
"Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose."
In that vein, you're correct...He does have more to lose and is thus NOT free. His family is intact and the primary source of support through the Hellscape of the last Decade plus.
None of us on Earth is really free; we're all a distillation of the devil's fermentation and can only hope to be a lovely wine over a nasty vinegar in the end as most never survive what Assange has insofar as he has.
No doubt about the necessity of 'Forgiveness Cycles' he can choose to endure if that's the route chosen which will end in freedom for the soul...Where he's as a lovely, full-bodied wine; not too sweet and not too bitter.
He can also opt for fury and vengeance eating him out on the inside to which will conclude with him as rotten as those perpetrating the torture he's suffered.
THE WHOLE EARTH IS NOW UNDER THREAT TO ENDURE EXACTLY WHAT HE HAS IN THEIR BUILD BACK BETTER CONCENTRATION-RE-EDUCATION CAMPS UNLESS PEOPLE GROW SOME GONADS AND STAND TO FIGHT BACK.
You are absolutely 💯% correct. I expressed your sentiment elsewhere yesterday. I urge him to regroup and rest if needed, but get the hell out of Australia which has given ample evidence of their place as WEF's anointed son.
Yet he is. He was welcomed home by our moronic Labor Prime Minister. He had a press conference to tell how he was Biden’s friend and had worked to set JA free. He was doing the fan boy thing about JA because he wants to distract us from the net zero disaster as our country is covers in wind turbines transmission lines and solar panels. He was out here instead of fixing inflation, cost of living and immigration. The PM was being Beijing’s ‘handsome boy’.
No I doubt our politicians here would be stupid enough to do that. The public support for Julian is large. But your comment about Australia being a prison? Sadly, I agree with you.
JA was welcomed home by our Prime Minister. He was the first person JA talked to on the tarmac. Our moronic Prime Minister told he was Joe Biden’s friend and that he got JA home.
Who is 'us' and 'our country'?? Since, thus far, THREE countries have been named (UK, Australia & Russia), that I can see. Wanna be a lil more specific??
Yes, the treatment of Assange is a travesty (as is the silence from other journalists). But I will say, having watched his arrival by plane on RT, he looked FAR better than many of the photos I have seen of him in the past.
I barely glanced at the opening paragraph knowing full well the title sums up their POV. People like the NYT need to experience what the people did on the Sevastopol beach in Crimea. Take any of our beaches from Jersey shores to the white sands of Florida, and let them experience a cluster bomb exploding nearby. Let's make sure that three American children are killed because that's the number killed in Crimea. The NYT writers are the worst trash in the world who are little piggies rooting through nothing but the garbage of their own insular thoughts.
What "other journalists"? Maybe on the interwebnetsphere but aren't many in the televised and print clown show - literal handful perhaps. Miranda Devine comes to mind as one of the good guys. I'm sure there are more, but not enough. Mostly prostitutes and bird brains.
The other journalists who were silent during the entire Assange situation. Every journalist (who is legitimate) should have been outraged and spoken out.
The 'mainstream press' is way beyond "craven flunkies". They are a sewer full of Joseph Goebbels wannabes. Knowingly and WILLINGLY hiding truth, promoting lies and covering for treason. All of it for cash and favor.
I remember that movie they made about him back when he was leaking Republican admin secrets....HERO....then he crossed the line, like any GOOD journalist, and leaked about the other side as well......
I have a feeling we haven't seen the last of him.....I hope they didn't break him.
In every case I've seen, the whistle blower gets punished more harshly than those whose crimes were exposed. Many times those guilty of actual crimes are not punished at all.
Julian Assange should receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his courageous reporting. So should Edward Snowden. There is much more to be investigated about how the spy agencies ran amok and shredded the Constitution. Many unanswered questions too about the murder of Seth Rich (see my Timeline), who provided DNC info to Assange.
Be hard to be worse than "in the dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman sometime in the 90s," but yes Assange was almost certainly set up for consensual sex.
I haven't seen any reliable proof that Assange had any kind of sex with his Scandinavian accusers, justifying the subsequent retractions of the charges.
Trump was being more arrogant than usual when he made the locker room-style comments about grabbing women's genitalia in sight of a live microphone.
Assange gave a detailed account of what happened. He certainly engaged with both of them. He's a magnet, he was warned, but thought he could handle it. It was his achilles heel.
This reminds me of the time John McCain wanted Julian Assange assassinated for exposing the nefarious activities of our "benevolent" government. Guess who laughed last?
He can only release what he received. He did receive piles of Russian documents and put out calls for technical translators. He published what he could.
He can only release what he's given. Chelsea Manning was a unique individual.
But NB, most of the countries/leaders were implicated on wrong-doing via the diplomatic cables - their release inspired citizens to rise in many countries.
Thoughts and prayers for Assange and his family as they pick up the pieces after this--and for any other western journalists who still have integrity, who are doubtless now debating the high cost to them of telling the truth when whistleblowers approach them.
Shutting us up. That's obviously a huge part of the regime's and the deep state's agenda. That's what the persecution of Assange was all about, not about breaking any laws. Assange revealed their crimes. Can't have that, you know.
Shutting us up was what the crimes perpetrated by the evil monsters on and in support of the J6 committee was all about. That's what Mr. Magoo's stupid "Red Light" Philadelphia speech and several others have been about - shutting us up and simultaneously trying to divide us
We've gotta be brave. We don't have the megaphone or private security people such as Tucker Carlson have, but at least for now, we have this and a few other platforms.
They may bust through my door and kill me, as they have others, but they cannot make me live under their tyranny.
Liberty or Death.
Assange has always been more a publishing editor than a journalist.
Cheese and crackers. Like that matters in the context of this sordid tale? Thanks so much for the clarification.
What do cheese and cracker have to do with crimes against humanity?
LOL! Did you ever see the movie Jailhouse Rock, staring Elvis Presley?
My favorite line in the movie is when Elvis, recently released from prison is attending a highbrow cocktail party, when a woman asks him a ridiculous question, to which Elvis replies: "Lady, I don't know what the hell you talkin' about."
I use "cheese and crackers" as an exclamation in lieu of "sonofabitch" or "fuckmetotears", when someone posts something ridiculous like "Assange has always been more a publishing editor than a journalist."
Assange is a hero of all free people.
All of which tells me that you can't explain the difference between an editor and a journalist. Having been both, I can.
Congratulations! I'm happy for you. So, genius, impart your wisdom and inform us as to how that matters in the least, as to the subject at hand.
What does an Elvis Presley movie have to do with the price of tea in China?
So what?
So what?
It is odd that Assange was targeted while Obama effectively pardoned Manning (the leaker), if my memory is correct.
Manning was a U.S. citizen and subject to U.S. law. He also acted in the capacity of a whistleblower. Because of his occupation (being in the military), the enraged parties were able to throw him in prison where they effectively tortured him into thinking he was a woman and left him a very confused mess. It's possible that they blew all of their vindictiveness on him in the course of that.
Assange, however, was out of reach, first in an embassy and then in a secure prison facility in the U.K. He is also an Australian citizen. He is NOT (and has never been) subject to U.S. laws, not that that has at all stopped the enraged parties who wanted to hurt him for outing their evil.
Unfortunately, the US won BIG. They have terrorized any would be whistle blower or journalist. Who would risk what they did to him?
Assange has been converted into whatever he has become by the actions of those like those who scapegoated the Rosenbergs.
"has been converted" - by whom?
were railroaded. Will we ever know the truth of that? Lots of info indicated they were not naive to be easily manipulated or blind to how communism is cloaked like in lambs clothing for the unsuspecting to buy in. I’d like to see real primary info exhilarating the couple if there is really any.
Assange has obviously been a scapegoat criminal when Manning was the real criminal as well as the Iceland hacker who lied against Assange to save himself. This man now in prison for hacking and lying which at the time should have pulled the wolves off Assange, sadly ignored by media. The same media who gets to vilify anyone they please
Whoever scapegoated the Rosenbergs, obviously.
I took "converted" as a nicer way of saying the man was tortured into eventually breaking and making the plea. It's hard to say Assange's experience was torture, as we often think of it as more physical pain, but his was financial, mental, and in certain ways physical as well.
I guess you are naturally immune after conversion.
12 years in prison orchestrated by us government for not commuting ANY crime is a proof of US being an authoritarian regime
"commiting", OK. Governments resist limits on their authority, naturally, and other governments sympathize. Assange's escape from their wrath was worse that the punishment he "escaped". Finally, he was offered a "plea deal" and both sides can claim victory. As a veteran of Viet Nam and LBJ's tyranny, I appreciate his gesture.
What is the commution of a crime?
His outcome was far better than the Rosenbergs'.
Yup, his body survived, but his psyche has been injured.
His oppressors underestimated the strength of his psyche.
What dark ages we are living through in America. The beacon of light has ceased to shine.
Maybe this and a few other platforms are beacons. I don't know. But I do know that if we shut up, they win.
Liberty or Death.
This platform is definitely a beacon.
Like! (-:)
Peace!
There are *many, many* Paul Reveres in this dark night ~
I JUST got finished leaving a comment on another Substack, and that was......
Is he REALLY 'FREE"??
I say.......NO!
Assange is leaving one prison, and then headed to an ULTRA-MAX SECURITY Prison......AUSTRALIA!
As soon as he was released, and I read, 'Boarding a plane to Australia', I screamed.....'ARE YOU INSANE?!'. If I were Assange, there would only be ONE place that I would be heading off to.......RUSSIA!!
Assange will get to Australia, and in no time, 'THEY' will find a reason, or, more likely, MAKE ONE UP, to put his ass BACK into prison, in Australia!
Julian Assange is NOT FREE!
And just wait until prison planet Australia mandates the next "vaccine."
Right?!
And who know 'what' they did to him in the UK. Pretty sure that they FORCED the Death Jab on him.
I've read articles where the *cough* writers commented on 'how good he looks'. Sorry.....I see the opposite. I watched as he climbed the stairs to the airplane....his legs were 'shaky', like they were about to give out. And, all of those years without getting much SUN?!
This whole, 'Assange is FREE', doesn't pass the smell test, to me. I bet they DID 'Death Jab' the guy, and now they just want to 'get rid of him' (from custody), because his 'Death Clock' is winding down.....and he'll soon 'die of natural causes'. 'WHY NOW?', is he being released?? ('Doesn't Pass the Smell Test!')
The lack of Vitamin D and exercise is so harmful for living a long life.
Assange's dad said his son was given the covid DeathVax in Belmarsh prison.
https://consortiumnews.com/2021/11/16/assanges-father-says-his-son-has-been-vaccinated/
Oh wow! (Death Jab) I think that that explains it. Assange doesn't have long to live (maybe Turbo Cancer??), so they wanted him OUT of their custody, before he dies. And him going to Australia, maybe that is where he wants to be buried??
Not a good look if he would die in prison.
Exactly!!
If there is any strategy behind Biden's reelection effort, this might be to remove one issue on which he can be criticized.
Unfortunately Assange had to plead guilty as part of the deal to be released.
Actually our moronic Labor Prime Minister welcomed the man home. That was instead of dealing with immigration, inflation and cost of living. Much easier being a fan boy. He is after Beijing’s ‘handsome boy’.
I keep reading that purchasing a house in Sydney and other cities is next to impossible because of the prices.
..the average home in SYD hit $1 million dollars in 2000...most expensive cities in the world are all in the lucky country
Wow...
"Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose."
In that vein, you're correct...He does have more to lose and is thus NOT free. His family is intact and the primary source of support through the Hellscape of the last Decade plus.
None of us on Earth is really free; we're all a distillation of the devil's fermentation and can only hope to be a lovely wine over a nasty vinegar in the end as most never survive what Assange has insofar as he has.
No doubt about the necessity of 'Forgiveness Cycles' he can choose to endure if that's the route chosen which will end in freedom for the soul...Where he's as a lovely, full-bodied wine; not too sweet and not too bitter.
He can also opt for fury and vengeance eating him out on the inside to which will conclude with him as rotten as those perpetrating the torture he's suffered.
THE WHOLE EARTH IS NOW UNDER THREAT TO ENDURE EXACTLY WHAT HE HAS IN THEIR BUILD BACK BETTER CONCENTRATION-RE-EDUCATION CAMPS UNLESS PEOPLE GROW SOME GONADS AND STAND TO FIGHT BACK.
You are absolutely 💯% correct. I expressed your sentiment elsewhere yesterday. I urge him to regroup and rest if needed, but get the hell out of Australia which has given ample evidence of their place as WEF's anointed son.
He was welcomed home by our moronic Labor Prime Minister with a phone call on the tarmac. Our PM was at pains to tell us his Joe Biden is his friend.
Yet he is. He was welcomed home by our moronic Labor Prime Minister. He had a press conference to tell how he was Biden’s friend and had worked to set JA free. He was doing the fan boy thing about JA because he wants to distract us from the net zero disaster as our country is covers in wind turbines transmission lines and solar panels. He was out here instead of fixing inflation, cost of living and immigration. The PM was being Beijing’s ‘handsome boy’.
His 'Welcome Home', by the CRIMINAL PM, was Pure THEATRE. As is EVERYTHING that these CRIMINALS do! (and they think that we're stupid!)
No I doubt our politicians here would be stupid enough to do that. The public support for Julian is large. But your comment about Australia being a prison? Sadly, I agree with you.
JA was welcomed home by our Prime Minister. He was the first person JA talked to on the tarmac. Our moronic Prime Minister told he was Joe Biden’s friend and that he got JA home.
You are likely correct. Sadly.
So agree
You people know nothing about us and our country. Everything you see is reflected through the lens of your own history. Solipsistic
Who is 'us' and 'our country'?? Since, thus far, THREE countries have been named (UK, Australia & Russia), that I can see. Wanna be a lil more specific??
Yes, the treatment of Assange is a travesty (as is the silence from other journalists). But I will say, having watched his arrival by plane on RT, he looked FAR better than many of the photos I have seen of him in the past.
This disgusting editorial from what was once the Worlds Greatest Newspaper.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/06/26/editorial-julian-assange-is-going-home-to-australia-good-and-good-riddance/
Mainstream ‘journalism’ has become nothing short of repulsive.
I barely glanced at the opening paragraph knowing full well the title sums up their POV. People like the NYT need to experience what the people did on the Sevastopol beach in Crimea. Take any of our beaches from Jersey shores to the white sands of Florida, and let them experience a cluster bomb exploding nearby. Let's make sure that three American children are killed because that's the number killed in Crimea. The NYT writers are the worst trash in the world who are little piggies rooting through nothing but the garbage of their own insular thoughts.
What "other journalists"? Maybe on the interwebnetsphere but aren't many in the televised and print clown show - literal handful perhaps. Miranda Devine comes to mind as one of the good guys. I'm sure there are more, but not enough. Mostly prostitutes and bird brains.
The other journalists who were silent during the entire Assange situation. Every journalist (who is legitimate) should have been outraged and spoken out.
Like (-: ) Agreed. A lot of so-called journalists out there who are long on double-talk and short on integrity.
The 'mainstream press' is way beyond "craven flunkies". They are a sewer full of Joseph Goebbels wannabes. Knowingly and WILLINGLY hiding truth, promoting lies and covering for treason. All of it for cash and favor.
Unfortunately, there are many more Assange's languishing in jails as political prisoners; we don't get to learn about them.
Julian remains a hero in my eyes.
I remember that movie they made about him back when he was leaking Republican admin secrets....HERO....then he crossed the line, like any GOOD journalist, and leaked about the other side as well......
I have a feeling we haven't seen the last of him.....I hope they didn't break him.
He was punished for telling the truth.
As are everyone who exposes government crimes.
In every case I've seen, the whistle blower gets punished more harshly than those whose crimes were exposed. Many times those guilty of actual crimes are not punished at all.
Julian Assange should receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his courageous reporting. So should Edward Snowden. There is much more to be investigated about how the spy agencies ran amok and shredded the Constitution. Many unanswered questions too about the murder of Seth Rich (see my Timeline), who provided DNC info to Assange.
This post reviews why U.S. officials sought revenge against Julian Assange. Coincidentally with his release, the U.S. Supreme Court decided to let the U.S. Government censor social media: https://peterdanielmiller.substack.com/p/a-coincidence-of-two-decisions
Assange paid the price for having the courage of his convictions. How many journalist have the same integrity ? I wish him well.
It is a National disgrace as were what was done / not done with Snowden, Trump, J6, Covid Jabs, etc.. such a corrupt system.
> The total disgrace in this sorry episode has been the Western mainstream press, which revealed itself to consist entirely of craven flunkies.
TRUTH. https://media.notthebee.com/articles/article-66192e1e1ac24.jpg
I have always suspected that the rape allegations against Assange had far less legitimacy than those against Trump.
Be hard to be worse than "in the dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman sometime in the 90s," but yes Assange was almost certainly set up for consensual sex.
I haven't seen any reliable proof that Assange had any kind of sex with his Scandinavian accusers, justifying the subsequent retractions of the charges.
Trump was being more arrogant than usual when he made the locker room-style comments about grabbing women's genitalia in sight of a live microphone.
Assange gave a detailed account of what happened. He certainly engaged with both of them. He's a magnet, he was warned, but thought he could handle it. It was his achilles heel.
This reminds me of the time John McCain wanted Julian Assange assassinated for exposing the nefarious activities of our "benevolent" government. Guess who laughed last?
Right. However almost everything he released was American and virtually nothing on the UK or Crown countries. Hmm.
Or Russia or China?
He can only release what he received. He did receive piles of Russian documents and put out calls for technical translators. He published what he could.
Last night I found this on Telegram… hummm ???
https://youtu.be/HBghLs3oYhk
He can only release what he's given. Chelsea Manning was a unique individual.
But NB, most of the countries/leaders were implicated on wrong-doing via the diplomatic cables - their release inspired citizens to rise in many countries.