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I am wondering if I can't offer myself to Assange's attorneys....

I'm REALLY upset about this BIG TIME. I mean, I know I'm always mad about everything and I've been screaming about this stuff forever, but this past week has been the real life scenario I have been dreading for SO long, and it's all coming down around someone I feel is one of the ridiculously few true human bodhisattvas on Planet Earth. He's actually wittingly taken aim at THE problem. Actually risked everything for all of us, even the dumbfucks who are clueless. My insides are boxing with the need to go bodily to be of use to him.

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I hope I even understand how to use the key... should it ever become necessary.

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Glenn Greenwald does a great job of underscoring the reasons for my dire state of alarm.

Just to underscore the climate of lawless initmidation that has been created: before WikiLeaks was on many people's radars (i.e., before the Apache video release), I wrote about the war being waged on them by the Pentagon, interviewed Assange, and urged people to donate money to them. In response, numerous people asked — both in comments and via email — whether they would be in danger, could incur legal liability for providing material support to Terrorism or some other crime, if they donated to WikiLeaks. Those were American citizens expressing that fear over an organization which had never been remotely charged with any wrongdoing.

Similarly, I met several weeks ago with an individual who once worked closely with WikiLeaks, but since stopped because he feared that his country — which has a very broad extradition treaty with the U.S. — would arrest him and turn him over to the Americans upon request. He knew he had violated no laws, but given that he's a foreigner, he feared — justifiably — that he could easily be held by the United States without charges, denied all sorts of basic rights under the Patriot Act, and otherwise be subject to a system of "justice" which recognizes few limits or liberties, especially when dealing with foreigners accused of aiding Terrorists.

All the oppressive, lawless policies of the last decade — lawless detention, Guantanamo, disappearing people to CIA black sites, rendition, the torture regime, denial of habeas corpus, drones, assassinations, private mercenary forces, etc. — were designed, first and foremost, to instill exactly this fear, to deter any challenge. Many of these policies continue, and that climate of fear thus endures (see this comment from today as but one of many examples). As the treatment just thus far of WikiLeaks and Assange demonstrates, that reaction — though paralyzing and counter-productive — is not irrational. And one thing is for sure: there is nothing the U.S. Government could do — no matter how lawless or heinous — which (with rare exception) would provoke the objections of the American establishment media.

I'm going to make the most embarrassingly sucky guerrilla, you guys.

This won't be pretty.

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love, 99
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