Julian Assange Declared Enemy of the State

by Stephen Lendman

America is Exhibit A on how democracies aren't supposed to work. Of course, the US isn't one now and never was.

Contrary to popular myth, it wasn't established as one. America's founders had other ideas. From May to September 1787, 55 self-serving wheeler-dealers met in Philadelphia. Today we'd call them a Wall Street crowd. What they designed fell far short of common beliefs.

Duplicitous politicians, bankers, lawyers, and merchants created a document serving them. Its Preamble gave it away, saying: "We the people of the United States….do ordain and establish this Constitution of the United States of America."

In fact, "the people" were left out then and now. The ones they meant were themselves and other privileged elites. Only white male property owners mattered. They alone were enfranchised. At the time, they comprised less than 15% of the electorate.

Women were considered homemakers and child bearers. Blacks were property, not people. Native Americans were in the way. Slaughtering and displacing them was policy.

From 18th century America to today, democracy has been pure fantasy. The American revolution was little more than operating a similar system under new management. Everything changed but stayed the same.

Government by "the people" was no different than under monarchal or autocratic rule. Constitutional provisions are whatever government does or does not do in whatever way it wishes. Ordinary people had no say then or now. They're entirely left out by design.

They don't govern. They are governed. The supreme law of the land, in fact, was a huge flop. Bill of Rights provisions enacted in 1891 made little difference for ordinary folks. Privileged ones wanted them for themselves.

John Adams said government should be run by "the rich, the well born, and the able." According to John Jay, America's first Supreme Court chief justice, the nation should be governed by people who owned it. It's been that way from inception.

Madison is wrongfully called "the Father of the Constitution." In Philadelphia, he was practically a nobody compared to others there.

Besides later becoming America's fourth president, he was best known for having kept detailed notes. From them, we know what happened.

A year after the Constitution was adopted, he said he wasn't among those who thought it was a "faultless work." Not at all. Given conflicting personal and states' interests, it was the best framers could agree on at the time.

Ten years later, he became extremely critical about how the document was written. None of the founders called the Constitution a glorious achievement. They went along because it was better than nothing.

Jefferson and Adams weren't involved. Both were abroad as ambassadors to France and Britain respectively.

Adams was consider the leading constitutional theorist of his time. His views mattered. Throughout his government service and thereafter, he criticized the Constitution in private correspondence.

Jefferson was just as displeased. Until it was added, he objected to omitting a Bill of Rights. He and Madison wanted additional provisions neither got.

They urged "freedom from monopolies and commerce (corporate giants) and "freedom from a permanent military (standing armies)." Adams and Hamilton disagreed and prevailed.

Why does all this matter? Because it's preamble to America today. From inception, it's been more hypocrisy than democracy. Now, in fact, what few rights remain are threatened. They're eroding fast en route to disappearing altogether.

Targeting Assange is one of many examples. Doing so means we're all threatened. Free expression and dissent are endangered. Revealing ugly truths power brokers want suppressed risks putting your freedom and perhaps life in danger.

Assange is a political refugee. Since mid-June, he's been holed up in Ecuador's UK embassy. In mid-August, he was granted political asylum. Britain's acting on America's behalf. So is Sweden.

Alleged rape charges were fabricated. A Swedish prosecutor found no wrongdoing and dismissed the case. Another on orders from her own government or perhaps Washington reopened it and issued an extradition order.

At issue is getting Assange to Sweden on false pretenses. Once there, he'll be shipped off to America for prosecution.

An earlier New York Times report said a secret grand jury convened. A sealed indictment charges Assange with spying under the 1917 Espionage Act.

Doing so contradicts the law's intent. It doesn't deter Justice Department officials from using it. It passed shortly after America's entry into WW I. Over time, it's been amended numerous times.

Originally it prohibited interfering with US military operations, supporting the nation's enemies, promoting insubordination in the ranks, or obstructing military recruitment.

In 1921, its most controversial provisions were repealed. In 2010, Bradley Manning was charged under the Act. Technically its under Articles 104 and 134 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). It includes parts of the US Code.

Assange's indictment is ready to be made public whenever Washington wishes to do so. Espionage Act violations will be charged.

Stratfor Global Intelligence suggested it last year. A case against him has been building for some time. At issue is getting him out of circulation for life or perhaps executing him. Doing so would send a powerful message to deter other whistleblowers.

Obama waged war more aggressively against them than all previous US presidents combined. Assange and Bradley Manning are best known. Anyone exposing dirty secrets officials want suppressed is vulnerable.

The message delivered is we know who and where you are or will find out. We'll throw you in gulag hell, keep you there, or kill you. Dare challenge their resolve and find out they're not kidding.

America twists legal meanings to serve its interests. Bogus charges facilitate hanging innocent victims out to dry. Headlines portray Assange as public enemy number one. For months, he hasn't had a moment's peace.

According to declassified Air Force counterintelligence documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), he and military personnel who contact WikiLeaks or its supporters may be declared "enemies of the state."

The charge carries a possible death sentence if convicted. Article 104 of the US Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) states:

"Any person who….aids, or attempts to aid, the enemy" in any way, "with proper authority, knowingly harbors or protects or gives intelligence to or communicates or corresponds with or holds any intercourse with the enemy, either directly or indirectly, shall suffer death or such other punishment as a court-martial or military commission may direct."

On September 27, Michael Ratner, Center for Constitutional Rights president emeritus and Assange's legal adviser, was interviewed on Democracy Now.

He said FOIA obtained information revealed that a UK-based US analyst, "a soldier who had top security clearance, (became) sympathetic with Bradley Manning and WikiLeaks."

An investigation followed under UCMJ Article 104. She met with friends of Assange. From "the face of the documents, it appears that WikiLeaks and Julian Assange are looked at as the enemy."

If so, "it has serious consequences. We all know what you can do with an enemy. You can drone him. You can capture him. You can put him in a cell forever."

"So it’s very, very serious. That’s one possibility, or possibly very likely, from reading these documents, (it appears) that WikiLeaks is an enemy and Julian Assange is an enemy."

"The other possibility is that WikiLeaks is the means by which this military analyst is communicating with the enemy. She’s turning over documents."

"She never did, but she’s allegedly possibly going to turn over documents to WikiLeaks, which then, by doing that, she’s communicating with the enemy, because WikiLeaks is going to publish them, and al-Qaeda or somebody who the US has already designated an enemy is going to read them."

Either possibility is terrible for Assange, WikiLeaks, and journalists.

"It’s terrible because if WikiLeaks is an enemy—I’ve already said how serious that would be if Julian Assange and WikiLeaks are an enemy—if they’re the means of communicating with the enemy, they could still be charged—WikiLeaks could be charged—with aiding the enemy, could be arrested under the National Defense Authorization Act, could be kept at Guantánamo, etc."

Washington refuses to say one way or another if Assange is targeted for prosecution. If not, why not say so? Why persist with the ruse of extraditing him to Sweden on bogus charges. The scheme, of course, is first get him there. Then ship him off to gulag hell in America.

It's no secret. Obama officials want blood. They want Assange, Manning and other whistleblowers hung out to dry. They want no interference in imperial plans abroad or repressive homeland ones.

Doing so makes perpetrators vulnerable. Hegemons show no mercy. US ruthlessness is well known. It's longstanding. It's worse now than ever. Millions of corpses and the largest prison gulag in the world attest to is viciousness.

Aiding or communicating with the enemy charges are fraudulent. Nonetheless, Bradley Manning faces one count under UCMJ's Article 104. He's also charged with numerous other UCMJ violations.

Washington wants him imprisoned for life or perhaps dead. Assange is likely targeted the same way. Habeas, due process, and  overall judicial fairness are dead letters. Hanging military and right-wing court judges show no mercy.

Kangaroo justice is policy. That's how police states work. Whatever Washington says goes. It doesn't matter what's true or false, right or wrong.

Fairness isn't in America's vocabulary. Victims are guilty by accusation. Manning, Assange, other whistleblowers, and targeted supporters haven't a chance. America's framers created the ways and means.

Modern-day scoundrels could teach them a thing or two. America was never beautiful. Now it's unsafe to live in.

Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.

His new book is titled "How Wall Street Fleeces America: Privatized Banking, Government Collusion and Class War"

http://www.claritypress.com/Lendman.html

Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network Thursdays at 10AM US Central time and Saturdays and Sundays at noon. All programs are archived for easy listening.

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Since the a fore mentioned asset was only 'leaking' preselected and massaged information [ and never touching a subject of israeli mischief, like Operation Cast Lead ] we should all know that this individual although providing limited hangouts, attacked the enemies of western ambitions.
But that's how it goes in the world of psy-ops and agents thereof.

I thoroughy debunked this talking point here :

site: www.moonofalabama.org crazy_inventor

cataloging both the dirty secrets of israHELL's wikileaks released, and showing how corporate media guardians, like *cough* the guardian, the NYT, amd others, are the ones who cleansed the leaks (which are available directly to those curious enough to grab - like me) which is the reason wikileaks broke ties with them..

the PR line that the leaks show no israHELL dirt are for the lazy and/or dull to swallow

I won't name names, you know who you are

meanwhile, this was the bulk of my community affairs this morhing :

Julian Assange to UN_ _US trying to erect national secrecy r.wv

Julian Assange sure did not leak any of this dirt into the MSM which treated him like a naughty boy wonder. And lord did this operative ever get the media coverage. Another tell tail. All the publicized 'dirt' from this freak was used to destabilize the enemies of NATO and the CIA.
So now they're apparently eating their own. As usual.

CIA Asset Julian Assange is Going to Tell Us How To “CHANGE” the World Tomorrow
Posted on April 16, 2012 by willyloman

by Scott Creighton

This is psyops control. Here are the facts.

The rolling psyop known as Julian Assange is not done with us just yet.

After serving as the CIA’s front-man for the distribution of phony intel for a couple years (and getting paid well for it) and then living like a king in an English mansion under “house arrest” for 500 days (while the patsy Bradley Manning is in lock down 24/7), now Julian is getting his very own interview based TV show.

And what pray-tell is going to be his focus? He’s going to tell us which new “revolutionaries” we can trust. He’s going to tell us which direction we should take our revolution. He’s going to tell us how “we can change the world” as the global reaction to neoliberal globalization is starting to take off.
http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/cia-asset-julian-assange-is-going-to-tell-us-how-to-change-the-world-tomorrow/

you'll find the answers you're looking for

but you didn't listen to the clip - it lasts 20 minutes and there you are making a fool of yourself in under 10 minutes

it would also take time to read the debunking and data I posted on that blog, but you're not interested in data

CIA ASSet indeed

sure would be feverish to jump in and defend one of your own, huh?
Aside from your graphics of stupidity, your worthless pronouncements and your imaginary broadcasts, you don't show us shit.
Good going.
Hopefully they'll turn on you soon, also.

9/11 skeptics say Julian Assange being manipulated by the CIA

Aug 19, 2010 ... 9/11 skeptics say Julian Assange being manipulated by the CIA ... being disowned by this clique and even being regarded as a paid agent.
http://digitaljournal.com/article/296308

in a threadd I started 'laughing man's comment was removed :

http://la.indymedia.org/news/2012/09/256050_comment.php#256063

as if the previous poster knew anything about the 'truth'

Webster G. Tarpley
Tarpley.net
Jan 22, 2011

Awareness is growing around the world that the Wikileaks-Julian Assange theater of the absurd is radically inauthentic – a psyop. Wikileaks and its impaired boss represent a classic form of limited hangout or self-exposure, a kind of lurid striptease in which the front organization releases doctored and pre-selected materials provided by the intelligence agency with the intent of harming, not the CIA, nor the UK, nor the Israelis, but rather such classic CIA enemies’ list figures as Putin, Berlusconi, Karzai, Qaddafi, Rodriguez de Kirchner, etc.

In Tunisia, derogatory material about ex-President Ben Ali leaked by Wikileaks has already brought a windfall for Langley in the form of the rare ouster of an entrenched Arab government.
http://theintelhub.com/2011/01/22/wikileaks-is-the-cognitive-infiltration-operation-demanded-by-cass-sunstein/

your egg on the face moment extends well past your face

oh look, our resident israeli spook has once again resorted to stupid, off topic graphics!
in defense, of course, of its fellow spook, Julian.
Not being able to claim superior knowledge than Tarpley, it once again [ did I mention OCD riddled? ] retreated to something stupid, having nothing other to counter with.
good going.
ha

just wait a few days, then lie again

by crazy_inventor Sunday, Sep. 30, 2012 at 6:50 AM

site: http://www.moonofalabama.org crazy_inventor

http://la.indymedia.org/uploads/2012/09/julian_assange_to_un___us_trying_to_erect_national_secrecy_r.mp3

Yes, it's correct.
This sorry israeli spook simply can't do anything but post its worthless pronouncements, stupid graphics and even more idiotic repeats of the same.
It has countered nothing.
But it sure does confirm what I've been saying about this psychotic, israeli spook.
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The alleged perpetrator Pt. Manning who “stole” the secret documents is in solitary confinement and not even his family is allowed to visit him. We don’t know his story but with the political situation in the US being what it is he will probably be called an enemy combatant and will not be allowed to have a court hearing and he will disappear into the system never to be heard from again.

But Julian Assange is a different story.

Who is he and were is he coming from and how come he can travel freely around the world and disappear from the face of it at will? I don’t know about you but if I travel I have to have my passport on me and have to give statements once or twice as to why I’m travelling and and were I will be staying and while you can always lie about your whereabouts the fact is that Julian Assange is quite recognisable to say the least and with all the attention he generates I’m sure he is tracked just about all the time.

But never the less he, much like the other boogieman dressed in a white jellaba and turban with a grey white beard, comes and goes without the CIA or any other international squirrelly police department being able to apprehend him for even the most basic accusations such as his alleged involvement with sexual harassment in Zweden. In fact he can be on Larry King live and disappear again.

If that does not strike you as odd I don’t know what will. Real live Jason Bournes simply don’t get away with what Julian Assange has been doing and stay free. Not for very long anyway.
http://aotearoaawiderperspective.wordpress.com/2010/12/01/is-assange-a-soros-and-cia-asset/

you are now arguing the point the clip talks about

I'm trying to celebrate halloween early ;)

...and stick it were the sun never shines. What we have here, dear reader, is a mentally castrated israeli spook who simply can't argue without its stupid graphics or a reference to some non-existent debate that only it thinks it won.
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Julian Assange, Agent Provocateur

Last updated 7 June 2011- updates are at the bottom of the article

The New York Times on the WikiLeaks Afghan war documents release:

“It is sometimes unclear whether a particular incident report is based on firsthand observation, on the account of an intelligence source regarded as reliable, on less-trustworthy sources or on speculation by the writer. It is also not known what may be missing from the material”

“The unfiltered intelligence and incident reports are sometimes consistent with data released to the public. But the archive is clearly an incomplete record of the war. It is missing many references to seminal events”

This [above] is absolutely consistent with methodology using a select collection of authentic documents employed to deceive as described in “The Secret Team” by Colonel Prouty, former Joint Chiefs of Staff/CIA liason.
http://blogs.alternet.org/penucquem/2010/10/11/julian-assange-cia-agent-provocateur/

why listen to the man himself explain the issue when you can rely on echo-chamber PR hit pieces that tell you what you want to hear with no data, just speculation from lazy clueless dups who simply can't be bothered, to consult the raw wikileak releases and do simple searches.

- when you allow corporate media to filter your news this is what you get - a smear job

the question regarding bill is why he chooses to believe the smears.

maybe it has something to do with the contrast between what he does - regurgitate worthless flake vomit, and what wikileaks does.

gosh and gee whiz... how could I ever have guessed? No counter to the posts or points I've brought up but we again [ this is certainly again surprising! ] more stupid and off topic graphics to support its worthless pronouncements!
Again, to blah blah something it cannot support. Even the most dull should realize by now that this obnoxious isreali spook is only here, like Julian, to insert noise and attempt to guide topics. Oh, and make worthless, unsupported pronouncements...supported by its infantile graphics and obligatory lies.
"echo-chamber PR "
exactly what this burnt out israeli spook is doing, providing an echo chamber of the ComCorp media...who would ever have guessed?

This israeli troll has yet to provide any real creditability to its 'counterpoints' [ aside from the all too predictable inane graphics ] about the experts in the intelligence field that I have linked to [ scroll back and see for yourself ] and what they have deduced, from primary research, is a classic " limited hangout" where selected information, not the entire narrative is released to provide a psyops for any particular agenda. Julian, like our resident israeli spook [ which offers the ComCorp media's view about this CIA asset ] have a similar task.

...waiting for the stupid graphics and more worthless pronouncements.

http://la.indymedia.org/uploads/2012/09/julian_assange_to_un___us_trying_to_erect_national_secrecy_r.mp3

site: http://www.moonofalabama.org crazy_inventor

tripping over its own stub again, huh?
your
http://www.moonofalabama.org/
can't be found
your
http://la.indymedia.org/uploads/2012/09/julian_assange_to_un___us_trying_to_erect_national_secrecy_r.mp3
is another talking BS diatribe from the same spook we are talking about. Like he's going to blow his own cover.
You and him are just another tool.
You can't do shit without your stupid graphics

I forgot to mention the deluge of off topic garbage this spook loads a thread with.
The blog in question, the one that this asshole is citing for one of its remote references [ since it can't seem to do it here without stupid graphics ] doesn't have an apparent dialogue between our resident israeli spook/psychopath with anyone.

You see, Julian and this individual have so much in common.
Webster Tarpley, Fletcher Prouty and others who have actually done real research and not just followed agenda points, have uncovered the mask.
This one here, lost it years ago.

well that just about wraps up the lies for this thread

oh wow, a screenshot. Thanks.
Where's your 'debate'? It sure aint here; were those posts like the ones you have here, off topic and filled with worthless pronouncements?
And your references most credible than Webster Tarpley or Flecture Prouty?
hardly.

Since the days of Machiavelli, war through deception has been the rule but the information age has made deception a more powerful tool than ever imagined.

Perhaps it is time the tables were turned and the “deceivers” were to receive some of the recognition they have, for so long, been denied.

Today’s story will involve Julian Assange, Wikileaks, Israel, the Mossad. Along with Netanyahu, Assange has tried to insert his way into the American election on the side of a losing candidate whose platform is simply war with Iran. Some explanation is needed.
http://www.hangthebankers.com/exclusive-assange-israeli-mossad-ties-unveiled/http://www.hangthebankers.com/exclusive-assange-israeli-mossad-ties-unveiled/

the previous link seems to have been incomplete-an error message?
Hang the bankers
http://www.hangthebankers.com/exclusive-assange-israeli-mossad-ties-unveiled/
copied from webpage
This week, from his balcony at the Ecuadorian embassy, Assange unleashed his program, carefully coordinated with the world’s druglords, his “bankster” friends and, closest of all, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, his strongest supporter, one to interfere in the American election on behalf of Mitt Romney.