“Julian Assange is NOT a Journalist”

Over the course of a few days on social media, I was astounded to find several tweets claiming that Julian Assange is not a journalist. Since we are halfway through 2021, and the amount of real journalists covering his extradition hearing in the UK, revealing the unprecedented corruption in the court, including the amount of revelatory information showing war crimes and political machinations that Wikileaks has published around the planet, you would think these pundits would have had some sort of enlightening experience regarding Assange. Or at least, over time, understand that the Assange case rests on the Constitutional Right of freedom of the press. To be sure, these people who make this infantile claim are certainly not journalists, but mouthpieces for the criminal establishment.

Most recently, a story was published in Stundin, breaking the news that a central witness for the US DOJ, Sigurdur Ingi Thordarson, a documented fraudster and sex crimes offender, gave false testimony in the Assange indictment. As the story goes, he was “recruited” by US authorities “to build a case against Assange after misleading them to believe he was previously a close associate of (Assange)” “Sigi,” as he is known to the DOJ and his own criminal circles have retracted his statement about the publisher/journalist. In a Just World, this and simply this would cause the prosecution's case to fall into the abyss. However despite many unprecedented crimes that go against due process, like illegal surveillance of Assange, spying on visitors and his lawyers while he was in the Ecuadorian embassy, the US has filed against the UK judge's ruling not to extradite Assange based on health reasons.

Once reading this case, any barrister worth their degrees and experience would tell you that this case should have been thrown out years ago.

In fact, the laundry list of human rights violations and violations of due process according to the letter of the law, on top of the recent news that their central “witness,” a known sex offender against children, Sigurdur Ingi Thordarson, lied to the FBI and the DOJ, this alone should shelve the case. But the prosecution has doubled down, extending the case with nonsense appeals and courtroom doublespeak. Why?

Indeed the western world does not operate on the Rule of Law anymore. It appears they take their orders from the powerful to achieve their unsavory ends.

For well over a decade, I have followed Wikileaks and their publications, which has revealed to me the crimes and machinations of a psychotic oligarchy. I see Human Rights flushing straight down the toilet all around the planet. Those who fight for our Civil Liberties are now shown to be fringe dwellers, terrorists, or actors against the State.

So to read a journalist bring the same old same old assertion that Julian Assange is not a journalist; on the one hand, it makes me laugh, however, the other side frightens me, that a “journalist” is that stupid or simply a mouthpiece for warmongers.