"Changed the world" is marketing hyperbole. Items
listed are worthy but hardly planetary-grade,
indeed could be disparaged as fake-like headline
news. Must point out "WikiLeaks" is a
hyperbolizing marketing term, a successful
branding campaign composed of two reconfigured, stolen, promotional terms
To be sure, copying predecessors, Martin Luther
(and namesake King) posted a list which became a
highly successful protestant branding campaign
against the dominant only one true "catholic"
faith and its erection-architecture-obsessed
pederastic church, branding the proliferating,
crowd-funding piles with
namesaking-saints-listing to lipstick globalizing
slaughterhouse murderers which inseminated this
spoiled brat of a forever-bragging-branding-USA nation.
Credit, modestly stated, is most certainly due to
Assange and his mostly anonymous cohorts for
challenging USA and Four Others-branding their
global slaughterhouse military with spy-sky
lipsticking national security (C)(R) threats. And
it may be necessary to exaggerate to gain
attention against the vast disinformation
hyperbolizing apparatus, lately the Internet, to
turn the autocratic weaponized dupery into a
counter, comical, dupery, even if only a pinprick.
Fine, then, exaggerate, lie, hide, valorize, but
prepare for casualties, "innocents" imprisoned,
stigmatized, murdered -- can it not be overstated
the mass murderous policies of national security
religion are ubiquitous, the tiny killings by
armed individuals would not show up on a chart of
what nations do, mass-scaled, to anonymous humans.
Lee Camp understates what Assange and company
could represent, almost as if he dare not arouse
the collaeral murdering giants any more than
journalists and "leakers" do, that is exhibit
fear and trembling, in hapless literature, as
Kierkegaard did of the holy power to condemn and
urge killing faithless dissenters.
At 05:44 AM 6/4/2019, you wrote:
Lee Camp puts into words the significant headlines (positives) re
Julian Assange.
Thank you Lee Camp.
18 ways Julian Assange changed the world (by Lee Camp)
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/460935-julian-assange-changed-world/
In an evolved and fully realized society, the oligarchy would see
Assange as a dangerous criminal (which they do), and the average
working men and women would view him as justice personified (which
they donât). We would celebrate him even as the mass media told us
to hope for his downfalllike a Batman or a Robin Hood or an Ozzy
Osbourne (the early years, not the
cleaning-dog-turds-off-his-carpet years).
But we are not evolved and this is not Gotham City and average
Americans donât root for the truth. Many Americans cheer for
Assangeâs imprisonment. They believe the corporate plutocratic
talking points and yearn for the days when we no longer have to
hear about our countryâs crimes against humanity or our bankersâ
crimes against the economy. Subconsciously they must believe that a
life in which weâre tirelessly exploited by rich villains and know
all about it thanks to the exhaustive efforts of an eccentric
Australian is worse than one in which weâre tirelessly exploited by
rich villains yet know nothing about it.
âIgnorance is blissâ is the meditative mantra of the United States
of America.
Julian Assange has been arrested and is now locked away in British
custody. The U.S. government wants to extradite him, regardless of
the official version, for the crime of revealing our governmentâs
crimes. Nearly every government on our third rock from the sun
despises the man for bringing transparency to the process of ruling
the unwashed masses. (The level of wash has, however, increased
thanks to aggressive marketing campaigns from a variety of shampoo
brands.)
It is politically inconvenient at this time for the screaming
corporate news to remind our entire citizenry what exactly
WikiLeaks has done for us. So you wonât see the following list of
WikiLeaksâ accomplishments anywhere on your corporate airwavesin
the same way the mainstream media did not begin every report about
Chelsea Manningâs trial with a rundown of the war crimes she helped
reveal.
And Chelsea Manningâs most famous leak is arguably also WikiLeaksâ
most famous leak, so itâll top this list:
1) That would be the notorious Collateral Murder video, showing
U.S. air crew gunning down unarmed Iraqi civilians with an
enthusiasm that couldnât be matched by an eight-year-old winning
a five-foot-tall stuffed animal at the county fair. They
murdered between 12 and 18 innocent people, two of them Reuters
journalists.
Zero people have been arrested for the collateral murders. Yet
Julian Assange has been arrested for revealing them.
2) WikiLeaks brought us the Guantanamo Bay âCamp Delta Standard
Operating Proceduresâshowing that many of the prisoners held on
the U.S. military detention facility were completely innocent,
and that some were hidden from Red Cross officials. (Because
when youâre torturing innocent people, you kinda want to do that
in peace and quiet, away from prying eyes. Itâs very easy to get
distracted, and then you lose your place and have to start all
over again.)
None of the soldiers torturing innocent people at Gitmo have
been arrested for it. Yet Julian Assange has been arrested for
revealing it.
3) Not content with revealing only war crimes, WikiLeaks in 2008
came out with the secret bibles of Scientology, which showed
that aliens, um, run the world or
aliens are inside all of us
or
aliens give us indigestion. I canât really remember.
But no one has ever been arrested for perpetrating that nutbag
cult. Yet Julian Assange has for revealing it.
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