IN MY OPINION By Dr. Ron Paul
Political
JULIAN ASSANGE
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Repressive governments do not want their citizens to know what they are up, to so they insist on controlling the media. We are taught, at the same time, that we have a free press whose job it is to uncover the corruption in our system so that we can demand our political leaders make some changes or face unemployment. That, we are told, is what makes us different from the totalitarian. The arrest of Assange is a canary in a coal mine to warn us that something is very wrong with our system. What’s wrong? The U.S. mainstream media always seems to do the bidding of the
ast month’s arrest of Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange by the British government on a U.S. extradition order is an attack on all of us. It is an attack on the U.S. Constitution.
It is an attack on the free press. It is an attack on free speech. It is an attack on our right to know what our government is doing with
our money in our names. Julian Assange is every bit as much a political prisoner as was Cardinal Mindszenty in Hungary or Nelson Mandela in South Africa. They, and so many more, were imprisoned because they told the truth about their governments.
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