Torture is worse than killing. All of us must die sometime. Torture is intended to destroy its victim mentally and spiritually while the body still lives.
The United Nations special representative on torture says Julian Assange is being tortured. No-one in the USA or UK would have any doubt of this if a Russian dissident in a Russian prison were being subjected to what Assange is.
Julian Assange
Assange is being tortured because he and his friends are a genuine threat to state power. Back when he was unknown, he came up with the theory that governments or other powerful institutions require secrecy in order to commit atrocities.
Revealing the atrocities threatens the legitimacy of governments. The danger of the atrocities being revealed creates a breakdown in internal communications necessary for the criminal conspiracy.
When Assange put his theory into practice by revealing U.S. atrocities in Iraq, he really did threaten state power. CIA director Mike Pompeo called Wikileaks a “non-state hostile intelligence service,” as if it were comparable to the Russian or Chinese intelligence services.
The long drawn-out torment he is suffering is an object lesson to others who might be tempted to commit the crime of truth-telling.
If someone can commit crimes in secret, and punish those who reveal the secret, there is no limit to their power. Julian Assange’s crime has been to try to stand between us and absolute power.
LINKS
Conspiracy as Governance by Julian Assange (2006)
In Conversation with Julian Assange Part One and Part Two (2011)
Assange behind glass: Shards of a shattered life by Patrick Lawrence for The Scrum.
The experiment of total domination: Assange behind glass Part 2 by Patrick Lawrence for The Scrum.
The “sacred outcast”: Assange behind glass Part 3 by Patrick Lawrence for The Scrum.
Courage Beyond Doubt by John Pilger for The Scrum. [Added 11/4/2021]
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