Assange’s treatment serves as an example to anyone who plans to challenge power and constitutes a continuation of President Obama’s war on whistleblowers. Chelsea Manning, who leaked the infamous Collateral Murder video, which showed U.S. military personnel massacring civilians, including Reuters journalists, in cold blood, has been re-incarcerated and faces a debt of nearly $500,000 for refusing to testify against the Wikileaks founder. Meanwhile, Edward Snowden remains exiled in Russia, claiming he would “likely die in prison for telling the truth” if he ever returned to the United States.
30 December 2019 — Mint Press
Assange is kept in being kept in solitary confinement 23 hours per day, often sedated, in Britain’s notorious Belmarsh Prison.
Julian Assange is dying inside Belmarsh Prison in London. Those are his own words, relayed through English journalist Vaughan Smith, who revealed that the Wikileaks founder called him on Christmas Eve to share his greetings. Smith also divulged that Assange told him he is kept in solitary confinement 23 hours per day and is often sedated.
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The Most Revolutionary Act 
This is a crime in progress against Assange.
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It seems to me, Trace, that this is pure vindictiveness. What they’re doing to Assange clearly isn’t going to shut down Wikileaks.
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Quote: “claiming he would “likely die in prison for telling the truth” if he ever returned to the United States.” There is no doubt of that… but only until the oligarchs in power change the law and bring back capital punishment for whistleblowers… for a start…
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In my experience, Sha’Tara, dragging whistleblowers through the legal system is a relatively new process. Usually they just suicide them – like Danny Casolaro.
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Yes, but this is much more insidious; they want “the people” to become conscious of this process and to grow in agreement with it, just as Hitler did with the German people. “The people” are being programmed to not only accept but demand that “enemies of the state” be made examples of. Propaganda and brainwashing with the use of scapegoats… more and more scapegoats until those cheering today become the state’s victims of tomorrow. Nothing new in that and “the people” always, invariably, buy into it, hook, line and sinker.
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