WikiLeaks/Assange is primarily a source not a journalist and
journalists customarily sacrifice sources to save themselves.
Assange in the early days of WikiLeaks was harshly critical of
journalists and adopted the journalist cloak when journalists joined
the org and shit started to come down.
WikiLeaks has sacrificed sources to save itself. But like journalists
continues to claim it protects sources in order to keep leaks coming
in. Also contacts authorities for approval like journalists, redacts
documents, hustles for funding reportedly now in the millions of
dollars, brays about its public service, avidly advertises itself,
breaks laws under guise of constitutional privilege, etc.
Assanges's sexual predation like celebrities is same as that of star
journalists, which stardom is hardly the norm for grunts of low-paid
journalists who hate investors, publishers, editors and stars.
WikiLeaks originally promised public participation of a wiki but
within months it was revealed to be an Assange promotional tool,
heirarchical, high-handed, censorious, secret, cultish. Now wealthy as MSM.
WikiLeaks remains a valuable public resource but needs to shed
Assange, secrecy, con artistry, obnoxious promotion by celebrity
defenders out to promote themselves. It was intended to be an
alternative to commercial journalism but lost its way due to
Assange's misbehavior even now being glamorized, way too many
vulgarians cheering his performance.
Fuck the glamorizers, free Assange from their clutches, they will
abandon him when appropriate for their own protection.
At 05:40 AM 2/29/2020, you wrote:
On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 05:30:30AM -0500, grarpamp wrote:
> https://twitter.com/defendassange
> https://twitter.com/wikileaks
> https://defend.wikileaks.org/category/news
>
> https://collateralmurder.wikileaks.org/
> https://collateralmurder.wikileaks.org/en/resources.html
> https://wikileaks.org/gitmo/
>
> Julian Assange
> Chelsea Manning
> Edward Snowden
> Reality Winner
> ...
>
> Hundreds of names, all bc govt trying to save its sorry ass.
> No one really wants it. End it already.
>
> #FreeAssange
George Galloway - a man who actually uses his (media) platform for
the "in principle" it is intended for - speaking truth to power.
WATCH: One of Best Orators Alive, UK Politician George Galloway,
Electrifying Speech on Lynching of Assange
https://russia-insider.com/en/watch-one-best-orators-alive-uk-politician-george-galloway-electrifying-speech-lynching-assange
https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FGeorgeGallowayOfficial%2Fvideos%2F1641329726020815%2F
(Transcript in Russia-Insider.com link above has a few mistakes, for
those who prefer to read... but strongly recommend watching -
inspiring, and only ~14 minutes and ~20MiB)
A few quotes from the transcript:
"Who cannot tremble with indignation at the idea that the man
that blew the whistle on the war crimes is in Belmarsh and the war
criminals are on the BBC and ITV and raking in millions and
millions and millions and millions of pounds."
"If you cannot tremble with indignation, any injustice anywhere,
you're not a human being. You have no pulse and you have no soul."
"This church should be bulging with journalists because if they
had any intention of actually doing their job. What is happening to
Julian Assange is a mortal danger to them. It's a knife at their
heart. It's a sword of Damocles hanging over their heads. If they
ever intended to actually be journalists.
But of course, the truth is, most of them have sold whatever soul
they had just for a ribbon to put on their coat, just for a shilling or two.
They have abandoned any claim of moral authority. These are the
people that lecture us."
