I was thinking about this one before ... when Trump was in office.
"Trump’s failure to pardon Assange when he had the chance blackens his presidency even more on this day..."
but then ... the president can only pardon someone who has been judged and put in jail. This has not happened in Assange's case. As far as I understand, a pardon is only possible if there is a sentence being executed. There is no way to pardon someone from an ongoing investigation, which is what this Assange case formally is. So I am not sure Trump can be blamed in this case.
Celia, I respect you wholeheartedly, and I agree with the spirit, facts and sentiments, of, well, most everything you write. But I am seeing patterns in a bigger sphere around the "failures of President Trump". NONE of this lies at President Trumps feet. Did President Trump run on a platform of being infallible? Did any think him some perfect being? His work alone on protecting the most innocent and vulnerable in OUR children was enough for me to vote for him a million times over. Make NO excuses, it is WE the PEOPLE who have failed this country for Decades. Why were we ALL not out protecting our country, when the building started burning, lazy cowards all of us! If it happened again tomorrow, we would all cower again. Why was a 17-year-old the only one who mustered the balls, backbone and courage to use and protect our sacred Bill Of Rights? Here in Minnesota, a Grandmother Lisa Hanson will spend 90 days in jail for opening her business against dictator Gov Walz Orders.
Where are the Patriots protests? Where did our courageous American Rebels go? There are many questions about Jullian Assange, but there are no questions about Lisa Hanson. She put her life on the line in broad daylight, while we all cower and post in a virtual reality. President Trump was only a President. For Crimminy sake people, the founders were quite clear, this country is WE THE PEOPLE, not we the President. I refuse to blame any President for the failure of WE THE PEOPLE. Let me repeat, the failure is OURS. Until we are willing to risk our own safety and security, we deserve the world the global elites dish out for us. Die on your feet or live on your knees. America's 2nd Revolution is upon us. Long live liberty, Long live the Bill of Rights, Long live the American Rebel Spirit. In JESUS CHRIST we trust.
While I agree that this was a grave injustice, but then that's what it's always been. We are in the midst of a huge tyrannical upheaval that overshadows everything...it also hides a great deal.
Recently, as someone who regularly read ConsortiumNews, I began to see a trend whereby JA was the focus of nearly all attention, and any attempt to see the larger tyrannical transformation on the COVID Operation, was simply shutdown/out of the comments. How is it possible to not see Austria, Australia, Canada, Germany, UK and New Zealand, and Luthuania. People are starving from COVID Ops, and moved to concentration camps, because they won't take the killer injection.
So in some crazed way, JA has simply been a place for some to pour their energies. If he is gone indefinitely, they may return to the larger reality....of crimes against all of humanity.
In some rather (divide and rule) insane way JA became a place for the "left" to place its approved energies. It was within (however fringe) the Overton Window.
Sad but true. Counterpunch did the same. Even one of my favorites, Black Agenda Report has succumbed to the line in the sand.
Journalism has long been dead, except on occasion to pretend an occasional truth to keep the radicals at bay.
The most courageous journalist perhaps ever, exposes massive war crimes and cover ups, through anonymous sources while violating no laws, and is now the criminal. yeah yeah land of the free press and all that.
I was thinking about this one before ... when Trump was in office.
"Trump’s failure to pardon Assange when he had the chance blackens his presidency even more on this day..."
but then ... the president can only pardon someone who has been judged and put in jail. This has not happened in Assange's case. As far as I understand, a pardon is only possible if there is a sentence being executed. There is no way to pardon someone from an ongoing investigation, which is what this Assange case formally is. So I am not sure Trump can be blamed in this case.
Celia, I respect you wholeheartedly, and I agree with the spirit, facts and sentiments, of, well, most everything you write. But I am seeing patterns in a bigger sphere around the "failures of President Trump". NONE of this lies at President Trumps feet. Did President Trump run on a platform of being infallible? Did any think him some perfect being? His work alone on protecting the most innocent and vulnerable in OUR children was enough for me to vote for him a million times over. Make NO excuses, it is WE the PEOPLE who have failed this country for Decades. Why were we ALL not out protecting our country, when the building started burning, lazy cowards all of us! If it happened again tomorrow, we would all cower again. Why was a 17-year-old the only one who mustered the balls, backbone and courage to use and protect our sacred Bill Of Rights? Here in Minnesota, a Grandmother Lisa Hanson will spend 90 days in jail for opening her business against dictator Gov Walz Orders.
Where are the Patriots protests? Where did our courageous American Rebels go? There are many questions about Jullian Assange, but there are no questions about Lisa Hanson. She put her life on the line in broad daylight, while we all cower and post in a virtual reality. President Trump was only a President. For Crimminy sake people, the founders were quite clear, this country is WE THE PEOPLE, not we the President. I refuse to blame any President for the failure of WE THE PEOPLE. Let me repeat, the failure is OURS. Until we are willing to risk our own safety and security, we deserve the world the global elites dish out for us. Die on your feet or live on your knees. America's 2nd Revolution is upon us. Long live liberty, Long live the Bill of Rights, Long live the American Rebel Spirit. In JESUS CHRIST we trust.
While I agree that this was a grave injustice, but then that's what it's always been. We are in the midst of a huge tyrannical upheaval that overshadows everything...it also hides a great deal.
Recently, as someone who regularly read ConsortiumNews, I began to see a trend whereby JA was the focus of nearly all attention, and any attempt to see the larger tyrannical transformation on the COVID Operation, was simply shutdown/out of the comments. How is it possible to not see Austria, Australia, Canada, Germany, UK and New Zealand, and Luthuania. People are starving from COVID Ops, and moved to concentration camps, because they won't take the killer injection.
So in some crazed way, JA has simply been a place for some to pour their energies. If he is gone indefinitely, they may return to the larger reality....of crimes against all of humanity.
In some rather (divide and rule) insane way JA became a place for the "left" to place its approved energies. It was within (however fringe) the Overton Window.
Sad but true. Counterpunch did the same. Even one of my favorites, Black Agenda Report has succumbed to the line in the sand.
Journalism has long been dead, except on occasion to pretend an occasional truth to keep the radicals at bay.
The most courageous journalist perhaps ever, exposes massive war crimes and cover ups, through anonymous sources while violating no laws, and is now the criminal. yeah yeah land of the free press and all that.
One more reason to elect Trump in 2024. I'll lobby for his pardon at CPAC next Feb.
BTW, Celia - if you haven't seen it - Catherine Austin Fitts wrote some kind and well-deserved accolades to you. https://home.solari.com/hero-of-the-week-december-6-2021-celia-farber/#comments
People that tell/expose truths about the government should NEVER EVER be subject to discipline, they should be rewarded and praised highly!
Excellent point on Trump. Whatever good he did, is blackened by this and warp speed. Assange is a hero. Period.