George Galloway lets it rip re Julian Assange -- Re: Wikileaks: Julian Assange

[John Young]

WikiLeaks/Assange is primarily a source not a journalist and 
journalists customarily sacrifice sources to save themselves.

Assange in the early days of WikiLeaks was harshly critical of 
journalists and adopted the journalist cloak when journalists joined 
the org and shit started to come down.

WikiLeaks has sacrificed sources to save itself. But like journalists 
continues to claim it protects sources in order to keep leaks coming 
in. Also contacts authorities for approval like journalists, redacts 
documents, hustles for funding reportedly now in the millions of 
dollars, brays about its public service, avidly advertises itself, 
breaks laws under guise of constitutional privilege, etc.

Assanges's sexual predation like celebrities is same as that of star 
journalists, which stardom is hardly the norm for grunts of low-paid 
journalists who hate investors, publishers, editors and stars.

WikiLeaks originally promised public participation of a wiki but 
within months it was revealed to be an Assange promotional tool, 
heirarchical, high-handed, censorious, secret, cultish. Now wealthy as MSM.

WikiLeaks remains a valuable public resource but needs to shed 
Assange, secrecy, con artistry, obnoxious promotion by celebrity 
defenders out to promote themselves. It was intended to be an 
alternative to commercial journalism but lost its way due to 
Assange's misbehavior even now being glamorized, way too many 
vulgarians cheering his performance.

Fuck the glamorizers, free Assange from their clutches, they will 
abandon him when appropriate for their own protection.


At 05:40 AM 2/29/2020, you wrote:
>On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 05:30:30AM -0500, grarpamp wrote:
> > https://twitter.com/defendassange
> > https://twitter.com/wikileaks
> > https://defend.wikileaks.org/category/news
> >
> > https://collateralmurder.wikileaks.org/
> > https://collateralmurder.wikileaks.org/en/resources.html
> > https://wikileaks.org/gitmo/
> >
> > Julian Assange
> > Chelsea Manning
> > Edward Snowden
> > Reality Winner
> > ...
> >
> > Hundreds of names, all bc govt trying to save its sorry ass.
> > No one really wants it. End it already.
> >
> > #FreeAssange
>
>
>George Galloway - a man who actually uses his (media) platform for 
>the "in principle" it is intended for - speaking truth to power.
>
>
>WATCH: One of Best Orators Alive, UK Politician George Galloway, 
>Electrifying Speech on Lynching of Assange
>https://russia-insider.com/en/watch-one-best-orators-alive-uk-politician-george-galloway-electrifying-speech-lynching-assange
>https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FGeorgeGallowayOfficial%2Fvideos%2F1641329726020815%2F
>
>(Transcript in Russia-Insider.com link above has a few mistakes, for 
>those who prefer to read... but strongly recommend watching - 
>inspiring, and only ~14 minutes and ~20MiB)
>
>
>A few quotes from the transcript:
>
>   "Who cannot tremble with indignation at the idea that the man 
> that blew the whistle on the war crimes is in Belmarsh and the war 
> criminals are on the BBC and ITV and raking in millions and 
> millions and millions and millions of pounds."
>
>   "If you cannot tremble with indignation, any injustice anywhere, 
> you're not a human being. You have no pulse and you have no soul."
>
>   "This church should be bulging with journalists because if they 
> had any intention of actually doing their job. What is happening to 
> Julian Assange is a mortal danger to them. It's a knife at their 
> heart. It's a sword of Damocles hanging over their heads. If they 
> ever intended to actually be journalists.
>
>   But of course, the truth is, most of them have sold whatever soul 
> they had just for a ribbon to put on their coat, just for a shilling or two.
>
>   They have abandoned any claim of moral authority. These are the 
> people that lecture us."