[l] (▻https://blog.fefe.de/?ts=a192b436) Noam Chomsky über Juli...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/11697005
[l] Noam Chomsky über Julian Assange. Wenn ihr sonst nichts lest diese Woche, lest das.
Assange is not on trial for skateboarding in the Ecuadorian embassy, for tweeting, for calling Hillary Clinton a war hawk, or for having an unkempt beard as he was dragged into detention by British police. Assange faces extradition to the United States because he published incontrovertible proof of war crimes and abuses in Iraq and Afghanistan, embarrassing the most powerful nation on Earth.
Amen!
When setting a gravely dangerous precedent, governments don’t typically persecute the most beloved individuals in the world. They target those who can be portrayed as subversive, unpatriotic – or simply weird. Then they actively distort public debate by emphasizing those traits.
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