Re: The call for Julian Assange || The WikiLeaks Manifesto - We all should read it
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Thank you, GazetaBitcoin. This is a classic Gazeta post: I will need some hours to peruse all your links!
Meanwhile, I will remark on the first thing I noticed: As usual, the mainstream media is up to the dirty tricks of smear accusations, and cherry-picking the worst images they can find as of some they dislike.
Excepting that in an old self-quote, all images in this post are from Wikimedia Commons. Although I am not always a fan of Wikimedia, they are a stable sourceand they will not be cherry-picking bad-looking images of Assange. I have linked each image to its page on Wikimedia Commons. I encourage others to use presentable images of Assange when discussing him: The Assange who built a powerful fight for freedom, not snapshots grabbed in bad moments after he was been virtually imprisoned for so long.
Although I myself do not agree with Assange about everything, I highly respect for his stand on principle. It is why he is so hated by the U.S. government: He cannot be bought, he cannot be terrorized, he cannot be persuaded. Not unless they can get him bodily under their control.
Speaking of which, the American so-called prosecution of Assange raises an issue of world-historical import that I have not seen many others discuss: By what right does the United States presume jurisdiction over Assange? He is a not an American citizen, and is thus not generally subject to the personal jurisdiction of American laws. He is not alleged to have committed any acts within American territorial jurisdiction. It is only yet another instance of America enforcing international reach for its diktat, on the basis of: We have the most guns, we have nukesand most of all, we have the global poison power of the dollar.
As for US-USSR being distinct without differencewhy yes, I think youre right. Theyre evil twins.
Quoting from one of the links in OP:
Quote from: Vox (2019-04-12)
Assange impeded Morenos ability to seek technical assistance, international loans, and greater security and commercial cooperation with the United States, says Polga-Hecimovich. All of that was badly needed if Ecuador was going to rebound from Correas economic mess.
To remedy the problem, [Lenin] Moreno tacked more to the political center as a way to attract foreign investment. Those efforts were noticed by the United States.
Prior to your election, our nations had experienced 10 difficult years where our people always felt close but our governments drifted apart, Vice President Mike Pence said alongside Moreno in Quito, Ecuadors capital, last June. But over the past year, Mr. President, thanks to your leadership and the actions that youve taken have brought us closer together once again.
Likely helped, at least in part, by the thawing in relations with the US, Ecuador in March received a $4.2 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund to help rebuild the nations economy.
To remedy the problem, [Lenin] Moreno tacked more to the political center as a way to attract foreign investment. Those efforts were noticed by the United States.
Prior to your election, our nations had experienced 10 difficult years where our people always felt close but our governments drifted apart, Vice President Mike Pence said alongside Moreno in Quito, Ecuadors capital, last June. But over the past year, Mr. President, thanks to your leadership and the actions that youve taken have brought us closer together once again.
Likely helped, at least in part, by the thawing in relations with the US, Ecuador in March received a $4.2 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund to help rebuild the nations economy.
Otherwise stated: The aptly-named Lenin Moreno sold his country, and sold Julian Assange. $$$
What can stand against such global, international corruption?
The WikiLeaks Manifesto, a document less known, unfortunately, contains other words of wisdom from Julian: "Only revealed injustice can be answered; for man to do anything intelligent he has to know what's actually going on".
Hmmm...
Quote from: Julian Assange
The non linear effects of leaks on unjust systems of governance
That sounds to me like asymmetrical warfare, with a twist.
The Cypherpunks group emerged initially in 1992 from Eric Hughes, the author of "The Cypherpunk Manifesto", John Gilmore and Timothy May, the author of "The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto". From a former meeting in Gilmore's office, a mailing list was born, under the name of Cypherpunks mailing list.
Thank you, GazetaBitcoin, for your continuing coverage of cypherpunks and the relation thereof to Bitcoin. To that, I will add a quite decent treatment of that history (with a hyperlink thoughtfully added by me):
Quote from: Jamie Bartlett, The Dark Net: Inside the Digital Underworld (2015)
The mailing list became the favorite watering hole for hundreds of talented computer programmers and hackers from all over the world, many of whom would use the list to learn about crypto before setting out to pursue Mays vision in their own way. One of them was a programmer named Proff, who joined the cypherpunk mailing list in late 1993 or early 1994. He immediately got sucked into the raucous and aggressive exchanges that characterized the cypherpunks: insulting newcomers, ruthlessly criticizing perceived shortcomings in others technical knowledge, and plotting the downfall of governments....
Proff, it transpired, was a gifted young Australian programmer called Julian Assange. Although Assange was a libertarian, he did not share Mays unashamed elitism: In the Cyphernomicon May spoke disparagingly of nonproductive citizens, inner-city breeders, and, most notoriously, the clueless 95 percent. In one of his last posts on the list, Assange wrote (likely in rebuttal to May) that the 95 percent of the population which compromise the flock have never been my target and neither should they be yours. Its the 2.5 percent at either end of the normal that I have in my sights. (When I asked May if he thought Assange was a true cypherpunk, he replied, Yes, absolutely. I count him as one of us. He did things, he set things up, and he built things.)
Proff, it transpired, was a gifted young Australian programmer called Julian Assange. Although Assange was a libertarian, he did not share Mays unashamed elitism: In the Cyphernomicon May spoke disparagingly of nonproductive citizens, inner-city breeders, and, most notoriously, the clueless 95 percent. In one of his last posts on the list, Assange wrote (likely in rebuttal to May) that the 95 percent of the population which compromise the flock have never been my target and neither should they be yours. Its the 2.5 percent at either end of the normal that I have in my sights. (When I asked May if he thought Assange was a true cypherpunk, he replied, Yes, absolutely. I count him as one of us. He did things, he set things up, and he built things.)
