Long Road To Freedom

“A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.” ~Albert Camus

Any well-educated person can make a case (OPINION) about Julian Assange’s guilt or innocence. No doubt it will be based on either fact or fiction, emotion or ethos, and maybe a mixture of both.

My personal feelings about Assange, I think he is narcissistic and creepy, (not a rapist but certainly a creep for not abiding by what he agreed with his sexual partners), and he may have a profound ( maybe justifiable) hatred of the US that led him to be rash with the US secret documents dump. But this story is not of anti-US propaganda or FREEDOM OF THE PRESS, no it was the calculated way OUR government used red herring against the citizens to curb freedom of the press. Recall how they weaponized the ESTABLISHMENT of MAINSTREAM media to attack what was the beginning of online or in WIKILEAKS’ case an online whistle-blower social media, NO? then please look at some of the articles of that era. And! Before anyone invokes the TRUMP boogeyman look at who was POTUS back then.

I hope this time around Assange can get it right.

https://apnews.com/article/assange-justice-department-plea-wikileaks-saipan-australia-00eb380879ff636cc9b916f82f82ed40