The Deep State Silences It's Greatest Foe - WikiLeaks

By

       George Sontag

       He has never been charged with a crime. The false Swedish case against him collapsed and was withdrawn, while the United States has stepped up efforts to prosecute him. His only “crime” is that of a true journalist — telling the world the truths that people have a right to know. Truths of the elite and their “deep state apparatus” that they want to stay in the shadows - unexposed.

       We attempt to shed some light on the crucial case of Julian Assange and why he should finally be freed from further prosecution so that he can continue unfettered the great work WikiLeaks has done as one of the most significant publishers of government whistle-blowers in modern history.

       Assange has been effectively imprisoned since he was first placed in isolation in Wandsworth prison in London in December 2010 on phony charges fabricated by the European elite to silence him. With unstoppable forces against him he fled to the only place in London that he could, the Ecuadorian embassy. From there he has continued to run his WikiLeaks organization much the dismay of many who actively “invent” events to further their agendas.

       There were a lot of actions in support of Julian prior to his going into the Ecuadorian embassy. Ecuador showed principles, ethics and courage in protecting Julian. But now with the change in leadership, the Ecuadorian government is coming under extreme pressure from the “deep state”and appears to be wavering.

    

       They have effectivly isolated Assange and cripled his organization. They have cut off Julian’s Internet, effectively his lifeline. He has been living in that small room for so many years, and now they are trying to make it a little smaller. They have done more than cut off the Internet, they have cut off the phone. Ecuadorian authorities have placed a blocker on all communications at the embassy. Perhaps worst of all, he is denied visitors despite two UN rulings describing his detention as unlawful and mandating his immediate release.

This shut down of crucial communication devices, obviously challenges Wikileaks publishing activities and undermines the crucial work of this incredibly important global news and publishing service.

       Under its previous president, the Ecuadorian government bravely stood against the bullying might of the United States and granted Assange political asylum

as a political refugee. International law and the morality of human rights was on its side. Today, under extreme pressure from Washington and its collaborators, another government in Ecuador justifies its gagging of Assange by stating that “Assange’s behavior, through his messages on social media, put at risk good relations which this country has with the UK, the rest of the EU and other nations.

 

      The US spent some $87 million to bring down the presidency of Rafael Correa, who gave Julian political asylum from US threats against his life and liberty. Meanwhile, the US military was moving into Ecuador with plans to increase the pressure to hand Julian over to the US. There is massive pressure on the new president which has caused the change in his status. By April of 2017, with the “deep state” now in control, they were firmly in the position to go after Julian. Mike Pompeo, who has now been promoted to Secretary of State, wants to arrest Julian once and for all. He threaten to arrest Assange, in violation of two UN rulings and their own laws, as soon as he walks out of the embassy. John Bolton has just been appointed National Security Advisor and has suggested that the US government should wage a cyber war against WikiLeaks for revealing Clinton emails and the CIA hacking scandal.

       WikiLeaks revelations on the increasing false flag events that are occurring around the word were unacceptable. The leaked emails of John Podesta that revealed the direct connection between the Clinton Foundation and organized jihadism in the Middle East, the WikiLeaks revelations of collateral murder that Chelsea Manning leaked that informed people all over the world of how wars are conducted by their own governments, and the apparent propaganda around this Sergei Skripal poisoning in the UK. That was been found not to be conclusively related to Russia. We are at a rather critical stage with Russia and Julian’s safety and freedom. The two situations are related. For example, the day before Julian’s communications with the outside world were cut off, one of the members in the UK parliament asked, “Isn’t it about time we took some action against the Ecuadorian embassy?” He wasn’t happy about Julian tweeting about the government response to the attack in Salisbury. Julian’s doubts have since proven justified, with the lab in Porton Down now stating categorically that there is no evidence to connect Russia with the attack.

       There is a particular cruelty being imposed on Julian Assange because he is the embodiment of dissent which is missing across the political spectrum in Western countries. He has become the enemy to the elite and their governments in the West. What we are seeing is the latest in a long campaign against WikiLeaks that seeks to criminalize investigative journalism. A document which WikiLeaks published from 2008 made it clear that an organization within the Pentagon laid down what the plan would be as far as WikiLeaks was concerned. The strategy was to destroy trust in WikiLeaks and destroy its editor. That was the plan ten years ago and that plan is now being carried out.

       London, Syria, Spain, Ukraine, reporting the truth has brought the hammer down. What is happening to Julian is part of a very aggressive campaign against democracy, against dissent. At the moment, that campaign is at a critical stage. We are witnessing a massive provocation of Russia. We have the biggest military build-up since World War II on the western borders of Russia. At the same time we have the biggest military build-up since World War II in the Pacific. The issue here is that the dominance of the United States and the Deep State is being challenged.

       "Three petitions have now been sent to the president of Ecuador, one from a group of former US intelligence officers supporting Julian, one from a group of world thinkers, and one from the Landless Workers Movement in Brazil. It is also important to get involved in actions, such as the internet vigil “Reconnect Julian,” where truthful journalist worldwide and ordinary people have joined together to pressure the US not to lean on Ecuador to silence Julian.” - Christine Assange

       "I have been a journalist for a long time and I always regarded journalism as involving a certain duty to find a way of telling the truth. Finding the facts out and giving them to the public. This was long before people were called investigative journalists, because all journalism should be investigative, with the object of finding out the

truth. Julian Assange is being mistreated in this way because he is doing what a true journalist should do. He is finding the truth about those who seek to manipulate and control our lives, and by telling that truth, calling them to account. For that, he is being subjected to a form of torture. Being denied all contact is a form of torture. Julian needs our support more urgently than ever.” - John Pilger

WORLD-WIDE PETITION TO RELEASE ASSANGE

      We ask that his basic human rights be respected as an Ecuadorian citizen and internationally protected person and that he not be silenced or expelled. If there is no freedom of speech for Julian Assange, there is no freedom of speech for any of us — regardless of the

disparate opinions we hold. We call on President Moreno to end the isolation of Julian Assange now.

Partial list of signatories (in alphabetic order):

• Pamela Anderson, actress and activist
• Jacob Appelbaum, freelance journalist
• Renata Avila, International Human Rights Lawyer
• Sally Burch, British/Ecuadorian journalist
• Alicia Castro, Argentina’s ambassador to the United Kingdom 2012-16
• Naomi Colvin, Courage Foundation
• Noam Chomsky, linguist and political theorist
• Brian Eno, musician
• Joseph Farrell, WikiLeaks Ambassador and board member of The Centre for Investigative Journalism
• Teresa Forcades, Benedictine nun, Montserrat Monastery
• Charles Glass, American-British author, journalist, broadcaster
• Chris Hedges, journalist
• Srecko Horvat, philosopher, Democracy in Europe Movement (DiEM25)
• Jean Michel Jarre, musician
• John Kiriakou, former CIA counterterrorism officer and former senior investigator, U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
• Lauri Love, computer scientist and activist
• Ray McGovern, former CIA analyst, Presidential advisor
• John Pilger, journalist and film-maker
• Angela Richter, theater director, Germany
• Saskia Sassen, sociologist, Columbia University
• Oliver Stone, film-maker
• Vaughan Smith, English journalist
• Yanis Varoufakis, economist, former Greek finance minister
• Natalia Viana, investigative journalist and co-director of Agencia publica, Brazil
• Ai Weiwei, artist
• Vivienne Westwood, fashion designer and activist
• Slavoj Žižek, philosopher, Birkbeck Institute for Humanities

       "He has been effectively imprisoned in a very small space without sunlight for going on six years now,” a spokesman for WikiLeaks stated. “He is not even given right of passage to a hospital.”