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Jim Brown's avatar

"Free speech and press freedoms do not exist in reality in the U.S. or the UK. They are merely rhetorical instruments to propagandize their domestic population and justify and ennoble the various wars and other forms of subversion they constantly wage in other countries in the name of upholding values they themselves do not support."

How I wish I did not believe this is a true statement.

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The only thing I find surprising about the whole Assange extradition affair is how abjectly stupid BOTH "the powers that be" and the propaganda corps are.

Apparently they're too stupid to realize that setting a precedence wherein they're now claiming what amounts to universal jurisdiction to the point of killing people means that any government anywhere in the world can now declare anything anyone does anywhere on the planet illegal under penalty of death, and extradite them extrajudicially from wherever - and lest you think Britain HAS "followed the rule of law", that just means you haven't been following that this whole procedure has been conducted illegally under British law!

This effectively is the kiss-off of the entire concept of the rule of law itself; it obviously doesn't actually mean shit to these people, and, by setting that precedence, it spells trouble for the whole world.

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